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Grading in my Discrete Mathematics class: a 3x3x3 reflection

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

All the students are hard workers; some of the self-described "bad students in math" are getting high grades while others with a deeper pedigree in math courses are failing. So what's making the difference? But this never happened among the students with higher course grades. The two are related, but not the same.