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Some leeway in wording was allowed, so an answer of "Anne's car has a speed of 45 mph", "45mph is the speed of Anne's car", or "Anne's car travels at a 45mph speed" could be accepted for full credit, but answers such as "45" or even "45 mph" were considered insufficient and would result at best in lost points and at worst in being awarded zero points for the question.
The explanation that I recall being given was that we were being educated to use math to communicate information to others in real-life contexts, and that context was always necessary. For example, if we walked up to an adult and told them "45 mph!", they would look at us like we were crazy and wonder what it is we were trying to communicate, but if we instead presented them with "The speed of Anne's car is 45 mph", they would instead react, "Wow! I've always wondered about that. Thanks!" and would be sure to lavish us with awards and college recommendation letters.
The school system I spent most of my childhood years in was (at that time) very big into interdisciplinary and cross-curricular studies. We were supposed to write papers about math, do math problems on real history, study the history of science, etc., so my understanding was that the requirement to write answers in complete sentences was an exercise in literacy and not mathematics per se.
So, is there mathematical pedagogical value in requiring students to answer word problems in complete sentences, or is this actually a literacy or communication exercise that has been applied interdisciplinarily to math exercises?
Yes, there is mathematical pedagogical value in the usage of complete sentences - but this does not only refer to "answers" and not only to "word problems", but to all parts of the solution to any mathematical problem or task.
The reason is that mathematics is not only about numbers, or computations, or equations, or inequalities. It is also (some people might say: mainly) about how to precisely formulate mathematical arguments and propositions. Propositions and arguments are typically composed of complete sentences.
One of the various challenges that I perceive whenever dealing with first year math students at university level is that they find it very difficult to express their mathematical thoughts in a precise and clearly understandable way - and part of this problem is that most of them didn't learn in math classes in school to express themselves in complete sentences.
However, the example you give is entirely inappropriate. When you are asked a direct question, it is correct English to simply respond with the answer. You do not need to prefix it with "The answer to your question is", or words of like meaning. Requiring this sort of thing just becomes an artificial constraint designed to trip people up, rather like Jeopardy.
Jochen's answer is very good. To add to it, here's the reasoning I was given as a student: answering in full sentences makes students think about the answer in different psychological context. This can help them catch mistakes.
For example, imagine the student answering the question had made the common mistake of dividing the hours by the distance instead of the other way around, and got an answer of 0.0222. Writing the answer as a full sentence ("The speed of Anne's car is 0.0222mph") might well prompt them to realize that they've made an error.
Word problems are designed to give students practice applying math to real-world situations. Doing this effectively means you want the students to understand the situation being described, and think about how math can apply to it. (This also requires that your word problems be realistic; if the real-world answer is "that's nonsense", it's a bad word problem for a math class.)
What you don't want is for the student to scan the problem looking for two numbers, and a mathematical operation to apply to them. Requiring the student to restate the situation at hand, and how the number they're giving fits into that situation, is one way to tell if they've read the problem thoroughly, which is a component to understanding it.
requires from the student not only to read the numbers and guess the right operation (perhaps all the tasks today are divisions?), but also to parse the subject of the sentence (Anne's car), the property being sought (its speed) and build a full sentence out of it.
(Omegastick points out that an implausible value associated to a sentence might prompt them to realize that they've made an error. But I wouldn't hold my breath. I think their parents are more likely to notice from the context that the car is probably not going at 0.022 mph. If the students suspect it may be wrong, that probably stems from the answer not being an integral number.)
I don't think there's a mathematical reason for this, but teachers may view this as part of an interdisciplinary approach. Requiring students to answer in complete sentences reinforces what they're learning in language class, by having them write complete, grammatical sentences.
I recall similar requirements in other classes. For instance, in History class, if asked when the US declared its independence, you were expected to say something like "The Declaration of Independence was signed in 1776" rather than just "1776".
This is a great added feature! I'm looking for a way for a Teacher to complete the Certificate activity for a student so that the notifications that are set in the Certificate activity are acted upon. In the Certificate activity settings > Issue options > upon Teacher completion of the activity (in the Activity completion report) The email that is set in the Certificate activity, Issue options "Email others" addresses, that address receives an email, and the "Delivery" set to "email", means the user will receive the Certificate in their email.
Any alternative is welcome. Basically looking for a way for teachers to complete a course for students, where the teacher and student receive email notification upon that completion, and that the Certificate is made available, and/or emailed to the student, by this same action.
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I could log in as them and complete the activity but it's a SCORM package that takes about 20 minutes to complete (plus, I'd have to know the correct answers to complete the quiz!). There's a few students that I need to complete it for so that's not really an option.
Thanks for the response. The link you posted is good to know, however, I have a large number of students that I need to fast track to course completion. I was hoping there would be a way I could perform this operation in bulk.
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I am a new user and am currently working with both Teams and Forms.
I have created Forms and attached them to a Quiz in Microsoft Teams. My students have completed the quiz and I have gone through and added a comment to every answer. My question is how do my students get to view me individual comments. When the assignment is returned to the student, when they click on their link it just says that they can't complete the form because they can only answer once.
@AlexanderHall85 within Forms itself that isn't possible. What you would need to do is to save the Forms response to a SharePoint list via a flow in Power Automate. That list would need a column for your comment. Then when your comment is added i.e the SharePoint list item is modified - the flow would trigger and send an email to the form responder with their answers and your comment.
this is exactly what I am going to attempt to do. cant use assignments on Teams as whoever set up the platforms added channels instead of actual classes, so now I am going to create some questions via Forms but I would also like to be able to give feedback. I was aware that you probably cannot do this with Forma but i'm not clear on this Share Point feature @RobElliott
In that scenario, I wouldn't expect it to work for anyone outside your organisation as there would be no way (that I know of) to authenticate the responder for them to see the results that relate to them.
I make the forms (in forms obviously) but then assign them in assignments in microsoft teams. Am I right in saying the troubleshoot you suggest does not work. I would have to set them the link and then make all my feedback in Forms rather than Teams?
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