Measuring Success When Doing Math
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The article discusses measuring success in math education, and the discussion highlights a specific gamification approach used by Math Academy to incentivize students.
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- each lesson or review or quiz has a target number of XP
- if you do it perfectly, you get the target XP plus 2
- if you do it almost perfectly, you get the target XP
- if you do poorly, you get fewer XP, and can even get negative XP
This last eliminates any incentive to guess or rush (at least in the cases I've directly observed).