I'm not lost...

... but I'll soon be covered in papers! This past week the math department had a meeting. During this meeting we were given a new plan for how to do our classes. Our student's math scores are not up to par, so we're "trying something new." Now we must grade every problem we assign for homework for accuracy and give "more feedback" to our students. In addition, we need to have an "exit slip" in which the students have to answer a problem or two to test and see if they understood the day's lesson. Now, I must say that while I can see the benefit in some of my classes of collecting homework and grading it (I think I have 2 or 3 classes where the students may not feel comfortable asking a question b/c of the behavior of their peers). But I feel like with math, they need more practice than I can grade! One of the other teachers asked about assigning 20 problems and grading 5 of them and we were told, "If the student understands how to do 3 of them, why should they do 20?"

So, I want to take a poll. I know many of my readers may be "math minded" and if you leave a comment and vote, let me know if you consider yourself a math person or not. Do you think students need to do more problems than a teacher can grade or do you think limiting the homework to an amount that I am capable of grading is a better option? Or do you have other suggestions. Again, let me know if you like math or not. And if you do, do you want a job grading papers?!?