MATH QUESTION HELP!!!

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Outcomes Based Ed in Math- New teacher help!
Hi Everybody!

Im a student studying at Curtin University of Technology and still trying to get my head around Outcomes Based Education and its uses specifically in the area of maths.

I guess from my background weve always been taught as a right and wrong answers (esp in math). How would you apply outcomes based education and especially with its evaluation, to mathematics at a highschool level...? with no right and wrong answers and levels? as opposed to percentage marks for exams and tests.

Just curious on others opinions...

Rochelle

I'm not sure that I completely understand the question, but in math, answers are either right or wrong. However, there are often multiple ways to arrive at a right answer.

OBE
Thanks for your reply. I totally understand what your saying. We have these wonderful things called rubrics and progress maps. For a student to achieve a 'level 5' in the segment of measurement, their level of understanding should be this:

M 9a.5
Understand units
The student:
Takes purpose and practicality into account when selecting attributes, units and instruments for measuring things and uses the relationship between metric prefixes to move between units.

For that level perhaps we can assign a task to measure the perimeter of the school oval. How as teachers are we supposed to assess that effectively? Completely through observation of a single students understanding? How can we be fair to them when theres probably about 25 students that we have to spread our time over? Do you know what I mean?

In Australia i guess its a relatively new scheme of assessment, just wondering what opinions others had on the topic.