We are dealing with students sharing tests right now for an on-line class, and it is really difficult to prove.
Remember that student of my sister's from last week who had the right answers to the other version of the exam and said he didn't cheat and copy off someone else, but was "lucky" and "guessed"? He showed up to the mediation with his mother and his lawyer. My sister ended up giving him last year's test to take immediately, and he got something like a 49%. She figures that's the last she'll hear from him.
He showed up to the mediation with his mother and his lawyer.
see how nice your sister is. I would have been looking for an airlock. or a pointy stick.
(Please to know I was kidding about having someone take my exam for me. I get very very frustrated with math sometimes.)
I would have been looking for an airlock. or a pointy stick.
I laffed and laffed... thinking, "oh, yes... this is the way to help your kids to independence."
(Please to know I was kidding about having someone take my exam for me. I get very very frustrated with math sometimes.)
Aims, I'm married to an actuary and I don't remember the quadratic equation. I know you're kidding. It's ok.
Come to think of it, I married an actuary so I'd NEVER have to do math again.
Come to think of it, I married an actuary so I'd NEVER have to do math again.
Cashmere is me, substituting chemist for actuary.
oh... that reminds me. ::heads for Press...::
eta: YAY - been meaning to do that for 12 hours now... WHEE.
I don't remember the quadratic equation.
You know you can sing it to "Pop Goes the Weasel," right?
First you take the negative b
Plus or minus square root
B squared minus 4 a c
All over 2 a.
Hee. I learned almost the same quadratic formula song as Emily, except we learned it as "x is equal to negative b, plus or minus the square root of," etc.
When I went Passover shopping this year, they were out of the brands of matzo I usually get, so I bought some British brand. They're thinner than I'm used to, and rectangular instead of square. Interesting.
When I was in high school and I couldn't get to sleep, sometimes I'd derive the quadratic equation in my head....
I found it a little annoying in HS math where we spent several days solving quadratic equations before they showed us the formula, which suddenly made things much easier. But then I just figured "that's the way math is...."
I only learned the song in grad school! But I learned it both ways, and of course if the teacher worries that the students might get confused when b is negative, you might want to make it "opposite b," as one teacher I worked with said it.
