I'm really glad too! And especially glad she got the lesson at a time when it doesn't matter as much.
So someone from the MAA did write back the competition manager and basically said, "the problem was uploaded correctly and graded, and we don't do regrades," which was disappointing but what I was expecting. I do appreciate they checked that it was uploaded correctly, which we had also wondered about.
(I told E she is going to have to make CM cookies or something, he has been great through this whole thing.)
There was one kid, E said, who posted to either Discord or AoPS (I forget which) saying they had missed MOP because of their grading. I think that was the kid who had got IMO kids to check their work to make sure it was correct. That seems incredibly frustrating, and I hope at least that kid gets through to SOMEONE (although it sounds like they got roughly the same response). E and I have talked about how one big part of the impetus for communicating with MAA, even though she's not herself materially affected, is that if they get enough complaints, maybe they'll realize something is actually wrong :P
I... can't believe we've never talked about your experiences with assessment?! I want to hear all about it!! As you have correctly intuited, AT is really great about continually assessing her kids (she gives them a low-key-this-is-not-a-test assessment every week! so she actually always knows what her kids know or don't know!) and everyone else at this school is NOT. I was about to write that I have no idea how the rest of them keep track of what the kids know and don't know, but actually I do: they have no idea. :P Oh gosh, if she could institute more assessment, or talk the new head (who is, I think, amenable to this kind of thing) into it, that would be amazing.
You would probably like AT a lot, and I know she'd like you. I will see if she'll be around this summer. She's also friends with math circle leader whom you've met, which is actually how I met her!
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Date: 2025-05-13 03:45 pm (UTC)So someone from the MAA did write back the competition manager and basically said, "the problem was uploaded correctly and graded, and we don't do regrades," which was disappointing but what I was expecting. I do appreciate they checked that it was uploaded correctly, which we had also wondered about.
(I told E she is going to have to make CM cookies or something, he has been great through this whole thing.)
There was one kid, E said, who posted to either Discord or AoPS (I forget which) saying they had missed MOP because of their grading. I think that was the kid who had got IMO kids to check their work to make sure it was correct. That seems incredibly frustrating, and I hope at least that kid gets through to SOMEONE (although it sounds like they got roughly the same response). E and I have talked about how one big part of the impetus for communicating with MAA, even though she's not herself materially affected, is that if they get enough complaints, maybe they'll realize something is actually wrong :P
I... can't believe we've never talked about your experiences with assessment?! I want to hear all about it!!
As you have correctly intuited, AT is really great about continually assessing her kids (she gives them a low-key-this-is-not-a-test assessment every week! so she actually always knows what her kids know or don't know!) and everyone else at this school is NOT. I was about to write that I have no idea how the rest of them keep track of what the kids know and don't know, but actually I do: they have no idea. :P Oh gosh, if she could institute more assessment, or talk the new head (who is, I think, amenable to this kind of thing) into it, that would be amazing.
You would probably like AT a lot, and I know she'd like you. I will see if she'll be around this summer. She's also friends with math circle leader whom you've met, which is actually how I met her!