You can find pdf files for the worksheets here. I’m using this one this week for simplifying expressions because I was looking for slightly different types of problems than what I found on Don’s website. I’m not really sure how this is any different than having the answers in the back of the book, but I’ll take it! For whatever reason, it seems that students are more engaged and are more willing to go back and find their own mistakes rather than asking me for help right away when they know that 7 of the answers are the same. So far, I am really liking how well students have been working together on them. For example a problem might have -6 2 and if students say it is 36 the final answer will equal what’s in the center. For the problem that doesn’t work, I tried to create a problem that if students make a common error, the expression still equals what’s in the middle. It was easier to make 7 problems that all evaluated or simplified to the same answer than I anticipated. I created similar versions for evaluating expressions and order of operations with integers that I used last week in two different classes. I don’t have to worry about remembering an answer key for students!
I like it because students know that 7 of the answers will be the expression in the middle. All but one of the expressions simplifies to 5n + 3, and you need to find the expression that doesn’t and show that all the others do. I was introduced to this type of a worksheet this summer by Sara Van Der Werf.She had us do the one below at one of her PD sessions this summer. Last week in two of my classes, I assigned a worksheet like this: If anyone has a system that works for them, please share! I am also terrible at remembering to upload answer keys to Google Drive for students. I want them to be able to check their work to know if they’re doing it right, but I go back on forth with whether I should just give students answers or worked out solutions. I want homework to be useful to students. The limitation is that it only can be used to apply the most recently used Highlight color.One of the things that’s a constant struggle for me every year is giving students access to answer keys for homework problems. However, a keyboard shortcut also couldīe created for the Highlight command. That would allow leaving the Ribbon focused on the Home tab to access color choices for Highlighting.
In the meanwhile, I'd suggest using the Command+Option+a keyboard shortcut to insert new Comments. Very limited requirements that happen to fall within the scant offering currently provided for the QAT. Ribbon & QAT customization has been promised but, as of yet, not delivered unless you are fluent in XML, VBA & RibbonX or have
It is what it is for better or worse :-). Re #1: There's nothing anyone here can do re the UI design. I'm sure I'll find other problems as I go, but right now, I feel like rescuing my Office 2011 from the Trash. This last one isn't as important as the first two, but I'll mention it anyway: the older version of Word used to keep a running count of the words in a document based on where the cursor was - this one doesn't, and only gives the total words in a document. And if I try to send the essay to the student anyway, he or she gets it unmarked, without any of my comments.ģ. Sometimes I try to quit Word entirely after saving an essay four or five times, but a box still asks me if I want to save changes before exiting. Of course I do - that's why I hit "Save" in the first place! But no matter how many times I say "Yes," the dialog box keeps coming. Often, after I save my comments on a student essay, a dialog box keeps coming back asking me if I want to save the changes. Isn't there a way to at least make a Quick Access Toolbar where I can have both of those commands together?Ģ. Needless to say, this increases the time I spend The highlight command and the comments command, which I used to be able to have on the same screen, are now on different ribbons, forcing me to toggle back and forth between them to grade a student paper. Who grades my student papers online, and so far, in one day, I've found that.
I downloaded Office for Mac 2016 yesterday (after, yes, upgrading to OS 10 El Capitan, which I'd resisted for months), and find the new version of Word infuriating! If anyone can help me with these problems, I'd be eternally grateful.