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There's a really common mistake in this exam that I didn't anticipate. It's "integration by parts of wishful thinking":
The students integrate by parts, then "solve" the second integral (which can, in fact, be done by a second integration by parts) by wishful thinking.
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I know my students love "integration by wishful thinking", but TIL they can also do "determinant calculation by wishful thinking".
You can do it for non-quadratic matrices as well!
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Student tries (and fails) to solve an integral by substituting u=x.
Yeah, rebranding won't work here.
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Exam arithmetics...
0/0 = 0
1/3 > 1
1/3 < 0
1/0 = 1
i = -1... yeah, that's what stress does to the poor students' brains.
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Argh, they have changed the data format and now my "calculate grades and other stuff like grade distributions" script doesn't work anymore!
*adjusts code*
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I finished the grading! And with half an hour until it's kid-fetching time to spare!
Now I won't have to grade anything until... next year. 😳
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Yay: student using a trigonometric identity for the double angle
Meh: student using it to evaluate the sine of the TRIPLE angle
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If all you know is separation of variables, every differential equation looks separable, according to my students 😑
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Only about 1/3 of my students went with the obvious substitution choice (which works, it wasn't a trap!).
About 10% attempted one that they could've made work with some trigonometric identity wrangling, but went for wishful thinking instead 😔
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Dear person who (incorrectly) evaluated a limit as infinity/12 and concluded that this was equal to one... Shall I introduce you to renormalization? I think you'll like it.
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As we were talking about how using correct Latin plurals feels pretentious at times the other day, I just wrote "limites not evaluated" on an exam and did feel pretentious...
(Changed it to just "limits", but it doesn't come naturally!)
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Meh, grading sucks even more of sitting at a desk for longer periods is painful.
*does some Yoga moves for ver hip*
(Yes, I know I'm very fortunate to only have figured that out now!)
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Finalizing the #syllabus for my new "#Masculinity - A Theological Investigation" course this week. What should I not forget to include?
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Finalizing the #syllabus for my new "#Masculinity - A Theological Investigation" course this week. What should I not forget to include?
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Finalizing the #syllabus for my new "#Masculinity - A Theological Investigation" course this week. What should I not forget to include?
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Finalizing the #syllabus for my new "#Masculinity - A Theological Investigation" course this week. What should I not forget to include?
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Finalizing the #syllabus for my new "#Masculinity - A Theological Investigation" course this week. What should I not forget to include?
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CW: Venting about teaching stuff
I just read a student's response to an ecology journal prompt that was so bad it made me wonder if they didn't just use their phone's text auto-suggestions to craft the entire thing. It was SO bad. Unintelligibly bad. Nonsensically bad! We're talking about a high school student, fyi. This is why I'm a science teacher & not an english teacher.
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There is nothing so mind-numbing as submitting proposals for the same thing, over and over, to different yet similar organizations.