galactic_hedgehog
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« Reply #435 on: November 23, 2009, 09:23:27 PM » |
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14 points of blank questions on the first page alone...make that 20 points.
Sorta like an {}? |
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conjugate
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« Reply #436 on: November 23, 2009, 10:27:18 PM » |
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14 points of blank questions on the first page alone...make that 20 points.
Sorta like an {}? Or perhaps ∅. You know, as in ∀x x∉∅. And it's really, really sad because all I did was shorten and simplify the sample test and change the numbers. Right after I went step-by-step in class over each problem in the sample test. For goodness' sake, I went over with them how to make their calculators find the best-fit line. I showed them which menu and submenu, and how to enter the four data points. I showed them how to copy the numbers from the screen onto their paper. The test was easy enough that many of them made A's and one student made a perfect grade. The test was apparently hard enough that a good many of them scored in the teens or lower, including a very special one-point paper. Oddly, none of them blames me. I'm used to being told that they don't understand because they won't study and it's all my fault. So it could be worse. At least these kids understand that they were being given what they needed, and quite a few of them ran with it. |
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Unfortunately, I think conjugate gives good advice.
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galactic_hedgehog
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« Reply #437 on: November 24, 2009, 12:36:02 AM » |
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For goodness' sake, I went over with them how to make their calculators find the best-fit line.
It's actually a lot easier with a sliderule. Just lay the sliderule down on the paper so that the edge goes through the data points. Then, use a pencil to draw a line. |
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« Reply #438 on: November 24, 2009, 12:42:16 AM » |
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For goodness' sake, I went over with them how to make their calculators find the best-fit line.
It's actually a lot easier with a sliderule. Just lay the sliderule down on the paper so that the edge goes through the data points. Then, use a pencil to draw a line. These kids don't need that new-fangled calculator technology! On another note, my TI-80-something can fit a line? Who knew! It hasn't had batteries in it for about 3 years... |
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When you are a scientist your opinions and prejudices become facts. Science is like magic that way!
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« Reply #439 on: November 24, 2009, 09:11:06 AM » |
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I'm on the second readthrough/rubric marking. The cat has laid down on the papers. Clearly it is time to stop.
Well, that is the rule... |
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conjugate
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« Reply #440 on: November 24, 2009, 10:08:14 AM » |
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For goodness' sake, I went over with them how to make their calculators find the best-fit line.
It's actually a lot easier with a sliderule. Just lay the sliderule down on the paper so that the edge goes through the data points. Then, use a pencil to draw a line. These kids don't need that new-fangled calculator technology! On another note, my TI-80-something can fit a line? Who knew! It hasn't had batteries in it for about 3 years... It can also find a best-fit polynomial of orders 2,3, or 4, or the best-fit exponential curve, or trig function fitting. I am staggered by the number of things that calculators can do that nobody bothers to use them for. But yes, my father used that method (slap a ruler down in the middle of the points) to get his linear approximations. It was never best-fit precisely, but what the heck. |
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Unfortunately, I think conjugate gives good advice.
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« Reply #441 on: November 24, 2009, 08:14:07 PM » |
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I just baked a chocolate cake and I am sharing with fellow graders.
I'm heartened to find these last papers better than the third set from this class. I don't know why these are better...maybe I've just hit all the good ones in a row, and the rest will be horrid.
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« Reply #442 on: November 24, 2009, 08:23:14 PM » |
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Arrrrgh. The pile gets smaller yet never seems to be depleted. I have one more "M" and after that, only 20 to go. I'm putting those off until tomorrow. I want it to be over.
I'm wretched. I am a wretch.
Chocolate cake sounds nice.
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senay
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« Reply #443 on: November 24, 2009, 08:28:50 PM » |
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Ha ha, here's a typo I haven't seen before:
"Right from the gecko, we get that sense that..."
Almost as good as the student who called a seamstress a "spinster" in class the other day.
Have some cake, kedves.
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« Reply #444 on: November 24, 2009, 08:55:05 PM » |
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Thank you, Senay!
I like "right from the gecko." If it's not in place right from the gecko, it's not going to work.
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« Reply #445 on: November 24, 2009, 09:11:36 PM » |
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I am grading the world's most awful stack of papers, and I haven't even found a good typo yet. I am grading to a rubric that is designed to help even the most hopeless student pass the course. I am still getting some real cr@p. They even had feedback on their thesis statements before they submitted the papers. It's frightening.
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galactic_hedgehog
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« Reply #446 on: November 24, 2009, 10:46:38 PM » |
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Ha ha, here's a typo I haven't seen before:
"Right from the gecko, we get that sense that..."
Perhaps the student's source was a GEICO commercial? |
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« Reply #447 on: November 24, 2009, 11:42:39 PM » |
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I think it's just a kid's thing - they have heard the expression, or something that sounds like it, but since they don't read, they've never seen it correctly in print so they don't quite have it right.
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« Reply #448 on: November 25, 2009, 03:17:52 PM » |
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Snowflake: "I just realized I didn't add the 15 point summary. Can I fix it and turn it in again for a higher grade?"
TM: "No."
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« Reply #449 on: November 25, 2009, 10:23:09 PM » |
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Done! I expected to be done Sunday, then Monday, then Tuesday--and then, now. Arrrrgh. What a mistake these papers are. I have to rethink this whole thing for next semester.
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