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The Pet House Project: Math Art Instead of Math Tests

Are you still giving tests in virtual math classes? Math teachers are so tied to tests they some times cling to them like a life preserver. My biggest struggles around testing are usually other math teachers. If this pandemic does anything good I hope it helps us evaluate how we assessing in math classes.  With traditional math tests, students have gotten good at finding ways to get other people or computers to do the thinking for them. (Photo Math). This is of course even easier to do when your teacher isn't there watching you take the test and you take it at home. One way that other contents get around this is through essays and projects. Those are much harder to just ask a computer to solve for you.  But math teachers don't usually do this....in part because they aren't sure how to make it happen. I'm writing this as a way to share an example.  Right before winter break we squeezed in the first half of Unit 3: Linear Relationships. I saved a lot of it for January but...