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I had a community college math teacher who was really pissed at textbook requirements set for her class. It wasn't a choice she could really make (ie. demand wh
by antjanus 8y ago
I had a community college math teacher who was really pissed at textbook requirements set for her class. It wasn't a choice she could really make (ie. demand which textbook to use).
So, when she taught me for a 2nd semester, she decided that we could use our old books. And kept it that way. We compared problems from old and new textbooks and the VAST majority of differences were differences for the sake of differences. eg. sally bought 5 peaches instead of 3 in the new edition.
- zdragnar 8y agoI always assumed that was to get around the fact that so many students will try to cheat their way through school. I contemplated joining a few clubs in college, and several of them let slip that they have archives of homework other members had donated from previous years.
- Johnny555 8y agoIf you cheat on your homework by copying it from a previous year, yet you also manage to do good enough on exams that you can pass the course, then maybe you didn't really need to do the homework. On the other hand, if you're really stuck on a problem, seeing someone else's work can help unblock you to solve the rest of the problem, so homework archives aren't all bad.