Originally Posted by Dbat
Actually my third-grade math class worked this way--but that was over 40 years ago. I did find it motivating and I think other students who were usually in the top ~fourth or third of the class did too, but I do wonder what effect it had on the students near the bottom. It was not a 'tracked' or accelerated class, so students of all abilities were in there together.

It was in classes like this where I figured out that my intelligence could be used as a sledgehammer to psychologically smash other students.

So, it also causes problems for the top of the class.

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