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Grading the homework is not the same thing as providing feedback. A big red X tells you that something is wrong, but not what you can do to fix the problem or e
by emeraldd 5y ago
Grading the homework is not the same thing as providing feedback. A big red X tells you that something is wrong, but not what you can do to fix the problem or even why that thing is wrong.
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- puffoflogic 5y agoOkay, so go to office hours or a math center (if available, apparently quite common). I certainly don't want to be misquoted as claiming that mathematics must be learned in a vacuum. Just that access to a large collection of questions and answers is not helpful. Your own argument goes through just as well to show that access to the answer isn't helpful either: you know you got the wrong answer but you don't know why.
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- namlem 5y agoSure, you can do that. But from a UX perspective, the system is clearly badly designed.
- jcranberry 5y agoFor proof based homework typically a grader will tell you which step failed with a short note saying why ("this mapping is not well defined", "here is a counterexample", etc) It is cryptic at times bit ultimately developing rigor and intuition is something that in my experience will always involve a certain amount of struggle and confusion that no professor can or should alleviate