Wednesday, January 31, 2007

I love you!

If you are the kind of person who likes to hear that somebody loves you, there are a number of things that you can say to elicit that comment from another person. Here's what's worked for me.

- You don't have to type up your problem sets. Hand-written solutions are just fine.
- There is no problem set due next week.
- Everyone is going to get a 10/10 on this assignment, but you still have to hand it in.
- You can work in groups of various sizes, as long as the size doesn't exceed n, where 2n = the size of the class.
- The answer is 233.3.
- I have it on good authority that this exact problem will be on your midterm.

1 Comments:

At 2/02/2007 8:21 AM, uhclem said...

"" Everyone is going to get a 10/10 on this assignment, but you still have to hand it in."

I ran my creative writing course like that...500-700 word assignments, due every Monday, 10/10 if they were in at start of class Monday, 0/10 otherwise. It really let people experiment with stuff they would have been afraid to if they were being evaluated on it, and curiously the class average on Monday assignments was mid 70s, the same as on the rest of the course. And, as you say, they loved me.

 

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