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Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

For the first meeting of my Mathematical Methods One class during the third week of the first term, I returned to them the results of their first quiz.

No one failed, the lowest being 73 out of 100 (the passing was 60) and around a third of the class getting higher than 100.

That definitely speaks well of what we teachers consider as the "honor" class.

Maybe next time I won't be giving more than a ten point bonus.

What I also found strange from the last time was that one student approached me and asked me if the results of the quiz would be confidential. I answered yes. It hasn't been since my second year in college AS A STUDENT that I was in the class of a teacher who would hand out the results of quizzes in descending order, and I have never done it since I took the job.

Announce the top scorers, sure, but only if it was really exceptional.

Speaking of which, again not surprisingly, the scholar who won in the high school math championship was the only one who got perfect in the test. Us Math teachers are definitely thinking of giving him some sort of reprieve from having to attend six hours of math sessions a week for his aptitude, such as just assigning him advanced lessons from the book.

Anyway, this time I gave the answers to the questions that most of them missed, which, curiously enough, had to do with multiplication of numbers, variables and exponents, while they scored well enough in the multiplication and division of polynomials.

Then we discussed the different methods of factoring polynomials.

I didn't give exercises afterwards, as a sort of reward for everyone doing well in the test. Hopefully this is will serve as an ongoing incentive for them to keep up the effort.

Session 1153 got lowest of the passing. Class dismissed.