[scrollaway]

You're still stuck in the theory, talking about how the people in this thread feel when none of them matter. The child matters, that's it.

> It's so important for young students to feel like they understand and will continue to understand, in order for them to then achieve new understanding. I don't know how to write that without sounding like a theorist, but I sincerely believe it to be true. You've got to get rid of that fear of red ink.

None of what has been applied in the photo is pedagogical and will lead to "getting rid of the fear of the red ink". Seriously man, take a step back, punishing a child for being right will make it worse if anything. Even if what you were talking about was a thing (it's not - the closest thing that comes to it is fear of failure and it's dealt with outside of tests), this would NOT help it.

[jmilloy]

The child isn't being punished.

The child wasn't right.

That's okay.

They child might not know it's okay. In that case, they should receive support.

Getting marked wrong doesn't help get rid of the fear of failure; we agree about that. Not sure why you got the impression I thought otherwise.

Many people in the thread are reacting against the lesson and grading because of how they feel, not about how the child feels. That's why how they feel matters, when discussing it in an ultimately irrelevant forum.

[aninhumer]

The purpose of marking a test is to communicate to the child whether they understand the topic. Marking an almost correct answer wrong (without elaboration) is bad feedback.

The problem that people are raising here isn't how the child feels, it's how the child thinks. And one thing they might think as a result of this answer is "Oh, I guess multiplication isn't the same both ways. I must have been mistaken." and it might take some time for this misunderstanding to clear up.