Importance Of Partial Credit On Math

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Should there be such thing as partial credit on a math test? I believe that students should be able to get partial credit on math test because the teachers make mistakes sometimes to during a lesson. So why should students not be able to make a simple mistake on a test? Now the student should not get credit for showing their work and getting nothing right but if the student messes up one part of the equation and if he/she would have gotten that one part right they would have gotten the question rights that is when the teacher should give some partial credit. So if the student shows his/her work but does not do anything right they should not get any partial credit. If the student gets the problem wrong but has the equation set up right he/she just made a little calculation error they should get ¾ of a point. If the student gets the answer wrong and only messes up 1 or 2 things ( depending on how much work it takes for the problem) but would …show more content…

If you are a teacher you shouldn’t expect your students to do every single problem right and not missing a thing because they are human just like you are they make mistakes sometimes they are not always going to get the equation completely right. If the student gets the equation wrong and you don’t think you should give partial credit let them redo the problems they missed and see if they can find and fix their own mistakes and if they can then you should give them some partial credit because that proves that it was just a little mistake and that he/she actually did understand the lesson. If you give a student partial credit for something on one test and then on the next test they miss it again but only miss a few things in the equation you should take off a little more credit since it is their second time missing the same type of equation. If they miss it again on the third test they should start getting 0 partial credit because they have had plenty of time by then to understand what to do during

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