Once again after reading this blog, I feel that Karl Fisch has made a great point once again. In today’s society it is all about getting the right answer and that is what grades for school are based on. He makes a really good point saying “everyone focuses on one right answer. In society today we want people to think with an open mind, but tests are not always reflecting that. Some tests only have one right answer, such as history, there is only one date that a battle happened on, but I don’t believe that that is the case in many subjects. Math is a subject in which students learn to think logically. Now, there are formulas they may need to know for a particular semester, but in reality is everyone going to need to know how to find the area of a triangle when the are 45? I think that an assessment as Karl Fisch had mentioned is a great idea when testing students, instead of your basic math test.
The reason I think that an assessment is a good idea in place of an exam because it makes students think so much more than a basic test. For example, as Fisch said, a good question would be. “You’re designing a school, what size and shape would your math classrooms would be and why?” Now, a student cannot just memorize that answer and write it down on the sheet of paper and forget it right when they leave the room. A question like that has a lot of different, smaller questions that need to be answered. Not only is there a math problems involved like area, but there is also a lot of explaining that a student could do to reason his or her decisions. For a teacher, it is a good idea to hear them out because sometimes teachers judge, but if you give someone a chance to explain many times you would be pleasantly surprised. I think that Karl Fisch is a very innovative teacher and he really looks in the future and he wants others to do the same and I really respect that.
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