On Jan 29, 8:14*am, Tim wrote:
On Jan 28, 10:13*pm, Frogwatch wrote:
On Jan 28, 10:07 pm, BAR wrote:
Tim wrote:
On Jan 28, 8:42 pm, Wizard of Woodstock wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:25:05 -0800 (PST), Tim
wrote:
"If you don't study... may as well be a little creative. "
http://www.scribd.com/doc/5107/They-didnt-study
ROTFL!!!
I loved the find X one.
--
"Every normal man must be tempted at times
to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag,
and begin to slit throats."
H. L. Mencken
There's actually a bunch more of them...
Some repeats.
http://www.masalatime.com/?p=419
I like the Engineering Design Economics Test.
I once taught "Physics for Poets" at least that is what we called it.
It was physics for PE majors. *The things the kids came up with for
answers amazed me. *I tried to do practical stuff like in the chapter
on Energy and Power:
Go home and look on all your electrical appliances for how much power
it uses, Look on your electric bill for the cost per KW-Hr. *Calculate
the cost of using each appliance. *Specifically, check your hot water
heater.
You'd think they couldnt screw this up, WRONG. *Theyd forget to
convert seconds to hours and end up with some bizarro number.
Or: *The stadium is 25 meters high. *If you run up the steps, how many
calories do you burn. *This was a trick question because the calorie
used for food is DIfferent from the calorie defined as the amount of
energy needed to raise a gm of H2O 1 deg C. by a factor of 1000.
Answers varied by 10 to the 6th power.:some student concluded thay
should lost pounds by running up the steps and some deciding exercise
was useless.
I always gave tests where htey had to figger stuff out and no multiple
choice BS, they hated me. *Kids sitting next to each other had
identical wrong answers. *What would you do in that situation? *I
failed em. told kids who'se papers no grade not to come back to
class. *Thought I'd get fired for that but the dept backed me up.
At that time I drove an old '56 Ford truck with no paint on it and all
the windows were broken, it was a mass of rust. *After a test, one kid
told me "Mr OHara, someday somebody is going to "key" your car". *I
pointed out the window to this beast of a vehicle and told em to do it
and it would be a favor, he went away shaking his head.
This was at FAMU where almost all the kids were sorta poor but they
sure tried. *The hardest thing was failing a kid who really tried in
my regular physics class for Pharmacy students but what should I do,
you can't have some kid becoming a pharmacist who cannot do really
simple stuff, somebody would die.
One kid who was a PE major was a huge guy, trapped m in my office one
day, told me he had a coaching job offer and REALLY needed to pass my
class. *Offered me $500 to change his grade from F to D. *He had
skipped almost the entire semester and had cheated on the only test he
took. *I told him, "take the final and you have a great chance of
passing" just to get him out of my office. *I failed him and never
returned to my office and left after that semester. *Too bad cuz I
liked the kids and the job.
Damn girls would flirt so outrageously it'd want to make you take cold
showers all day, nearly drove me crazy.
When My sister-in-law was still teaching 7th grade, there was a lad
that came up to her and asked her how long (like down to the week) *he
could goof off and still catch up and pass...
amazing- Hide quoted text -
- Show quoted text -
Well, when I was in high school, NY had what they called Regents
Courses. If you pass the midterm and final, you passed, regardless of
your other tests and homework scores. I was just naturally good at
math, so I took regents algebra, geometry, trig, etc. They also had a
thing where if your report card grade was below 50, they simply
circled it. I'd have circled 50's right down the line, except for
midterm and final test scores!!! I knew what I was doing, just didn't
want to do homework or do anything in class.