As part of Math for America‘s inaugural Master Teachers on Teaching symposium, I gave a talk titled “g = 4, and Other Lies the Test Told Me”. Video of the talk can be seen here.
The theme of the symposium was modeling, and my talk focused on the ways that standardized testing can undermine the teaching and learning of modeling.
By looking at a series of poorly-conceived state exam questions, I discussed the ramifications that these questions have on student’s conceptions of mathematics and modeling, and on the teaching that goes on in the classroom.
