Thursday, April 22, 2010

Paper-Grading Math

So my friend Tim just told me, "NEVER count the pages. You'll put a gun to your head," but I couldn't help myself and he was too late. I'd already done the math. Here's the amount of pages I anticipate having to grade at minimum in the next two weeks, not counting final exams:

ENGL 407 papers:
20 papers of 15-20 pages each
Minimum number of pages: 300

ENGL 355 papers:
18 papers of 10-12 pages each
Minimum number of pages: 180

ENGL 204 papers:
70 papers of 5-7 pages each
Minimum number of pages: 350

Grand total: 830 pages minimum.

Fun stuff. Fellow teachers, feel free to share your own miserable mathematics of grading.

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