Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Writing in Math Mr. Smith is a 6th grade math teacher. His school has recently adopted a policy that requires every summative assessment, in every subject, to have a written response section. The Language Arts lead teacher for the school created a rubric that must be used, school wide, to grade the written response. The rubric is not math friendly and Mr. Smith is having a difficult time grading grading the written responses according to the rubric. Mr. Smith feels as though he should be grading his students on the math content, not whether or not they used correct grammar or spelling. He has noticed a drop in his math test scores. He has suggested to create a rubric just for math; however, administration wants the same rubric for all subjects. What should he do? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) Mr. Smith could give math constructed response questions that aligns to the rubric. Instead of changing the rubric, change the written responses.