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chuckle I'm teaching high school math, and I have students who are jedi knights of making ambiguous mathematical signs. They make their "1"'s with a long top
by rhelz 2y ago
chuckle I'm teaching high school math, and I have students who are jedi knights of making ambiguous mathematical signs. They make their "1"'s with a long top serif, which make it look like it could be either a "1" or a "7". A "4" written with a curly hook on the bottom can be mistaken for an "8", etc etc.
Not to mention a glyph which is maximally ambiguous between "T" and "F" so that when grading true/false questions, could stand in for either :-)
If the students would put half as much effort into learning the material as they do in trying to trick teachers they would get straight A's ;-)
- boothby 2y agoI'm probably too much of a stickler for high school. If I had students try to trick me with T/F confusion I'd immediately announce a "round towards the wrong answer" policy and watch 'em tidy up right quick. Some european students threw me when I started grading in university though. Their 1s look like my 7s as you describe, but they cross their 7s to disambiguate.
- madcaptenor 2y agoI remember true-false questions on tests asking us to circle the word TRUE or FALSE, I guess to make that trick not work.