Do you give your children extra credit?

[LupusMommyto5]

In any of the classes you teach your children at home, do you offer extra credit? If so what particular things do you do for extra credit, and how do you figure it into their overall grade for the class?

Nannette (a.k.a. LupusMommyto5)

[HSmomto4]

We don't give grades so I would have no need for it.

[NewWorldOrder]

Yes, I'll give extra credit if she does extra work. You can give the credit on things like an extra writing assignment, or anywhere you feel she's earned the credit. Recently my daughter had to do a drawing in her Art class, but because she finished it early she did a second drawing and got a 101 in the class for doing the extra work. That's an example of how you can apply extra credit.

I didn't used to give grades either, but now that she's in highschool I kinda have to so colleges will see how she did. I was just working on her transcript today so she she can go ahead and enroll at the local college here for dual credit courses.

[HSmomto4]

I have one in high school also, but I still don't do grades. Not like grading papers and stuff. I have all her test and give a percentage on them, but that is all I do. Maybe I need to read some more on keeping transcripts.

[LupusMommyto5]

Thanks. Although I am still a little confused about figuring it in as the grading scale I use is :

90-100 = A
80-89 = B
70-79 =C
60 -69 =D
59 or less =F

I do grade them (mulitple grade levels 1st, 3rd, 5th, and Matt is 6th grade although doing 7th grade math.) that way I know what their gpa is for each class, and it also helps me with teaching them as I know their level of understanding for the subject.

I want to give them extra credit for lots of different reasons, but mostly to help with final gpa for the class and I am not mathematically impaired (although my husband will disagree as I got straight A's in algebra, calculus, and trig, but I got an F in Geometry--could handle picture association and equations together). I just have no idea how to work the formula for the overall gpa and don't understand how to even apply it, my mind has went completely blank today.

Any suggestions?

Nannette (a.k.a. LupusMommyto5)

[NewWorldOrder]

I think I know what you're asking.

I don't give daily work grades, only quizzes and test grades. Book Reports I count as test grades. What you do, is no matter how much credit you give them you assign letter grades then you assign the letter grade a grade point scale.

A = 4.0
B = 3.0
C = 2.0
D = 1.0
F = 0.0

Or you could break it down even more:

A = 4.0
B+ = 3.5
B = 3.0
C+ = 2.5
C = 2.0
D+ = 1.5
D = 1.0
F = 0.0

When you get the GPA scale the way you want it, then you work on figuring their GPA. It's complicated, and I was just working on this all last night and this morning. I'm not math oriented, but I was still able to do it.

You'll need to convert the grades into their numeric value and multiply that number by the credit earned for the class they got that grade in.


4.0 x 1.0 = 4.0
3.0 x 0.5 = 1.5
4.0 x 0.5 = 2.0 and so on.

Then you add the those numbers together which in this example it would be 7.5.

Then you add the the number of possible credits earned, not just the actual credits earned. So if they could have earned 1.0 credit but failed the class they actually earned a 0.0 but could have earned the 1.0. Here in my example the possible earned credit is 2.0.

You divide 7.5 / 2.0 = 3.75 this is your calculated GPA for that grade.

Does this make any sense? Is this what you're asking?

[LupusMommyto5]

I think I know what you're asking.

I don't give daily work grades, only quizzes and test grades. Book Reports I count as test grades. What you do, is no matter how much credit you give them you assign letter grades then you assign the letter grade a grade point scale.

A = 4.0
B = 3.0
C = 2.0
D = 1.0
F = 0.0

Or you could break it down even more:

A = 4.0
B+ = 3.5
B = 3.0
C+ = 2.5
C = 2.0
D+ = 1.5
D = 1.0
F = 0.0

When you get the GPA scale the way you want it, then you work on figuring their GPA. It's complicated, and I was just working on this all last night and this morning. I'm not math oriented, but I was still able to do it.

You'll need to convert the grades into their numeric value and multiply that number by the credit earned for the class they got that grade in.


4.0 x 1.0 = 4.0
3.0 x 0.5 = 1.5
4.0 x 0.5 = 2.0 and so on.

Then you add the those numbers together which in this example it would be 7.5.

Then you add the the number of credits earned. Here in my example the earned credit is 2.0

You divide 7.5 / 2.0 = 3.75 this is your calculated GPA for that grade.

Does this make any sense? Is this what you're asking?


Yes Yes Yes----Thank you so much I printed this out for reference as that's exactly what I was wanting......you're a Godsend.

Sometimes I get confused and need a visual, sometimes it's hard becuase I know what I want, I generally good with verbal expression however, I cannot find the words to say what I mean even with a dictionary.

Thanks,
Nannette (a.k.a. LupusMommyto5)

[NewWorldOrder]

I also found this website, that I actually used, and it works for what I need right now. It's free to use, but if you need a bit more information on your transcript you can pay $19 for the a year. This site calculates your GPA for you.

http://teascript.com/

[NewWorldOrder]

Yes Yes Yes----Thank you so much I printed this out for reference as that's exactly what I was wanting......you're a Godsend.

Sometimes I get confused and need a visual, sometimes it's hard becuase I know what I want, I generally good with verbal expression however, I cannot find the words to say what I mean even with a dictionary.

Thanks,
Nannette (a.k.a. LupusMommyto5)

LupusMommy, I had made a small error in that example I gave you, so you may want to reprint it with the corrections I made.

[MochaMel]

Why do you guys give grades? Do you have to per state law or is it easier when knowing where there at? We don't have to here until Highschool -- and then we have to do transcripts... I don't know if i'm doing HS yet; but i tried doing the grading thing for awhile; but was always forgetting by the time i was schooling more then one.. Just curious.