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Organizing my math papers

Organizing my math papers

We get a lot of printed worksheets and handouts in math class. I find them confusing because they are always different to me. They look different and what they are about is different. We have to do all the worksheets and then the teacher tells us the answers in class and we mark our own stuff. After each module--say geometry--we have hand in all our worksheets to the teacher. They count for marks. When I went to hand in mine the teacher wouldn’t accept them, she told me to organize them. I went back to my desk and did that but she still wouldn’t accept them. I didn’t tell anyone but my mom found out when she was organizing my binder with me. She asked me if there were any instructions on how to organize everything, like a rubric with some “scaffolds” on how to do it. Well there isn’t. I was really angry when I told her the story.