
Why timed math tests don't work - and what we should do instead
I would like to invite you into a core memory that I have of third grade. On a certain day each week we would all sit down at our desks while the teacher passed out sheets filled with multiplication facts placed face down. She would stand at the front of the room and start her timer triggering us to all frantically flip over our papers and start filling in answers. As soon as that timer started I began to SWEAT. I never filled in the whole sheet no matter how much I studied o