Highest level of mathematics education

I got 1 + 3 + 4given

 

Struggled through Algebra I, almost failed Geometry. The Geometry final was a multiple choice and I answered the few I could, then went down the page randomly marking A, C, D, A, B, B, A, A, D, C, B, D, etc. and got a C. It was a miracle! :smilewinkgrin:

Took Logic in college instead of math. I was a Lit major.

Had to take Logic (again!) in seminary for apologetics track; struggled through that, too. The students with engineering backgrounds loved that course!

 

You might have gotten higher than a C if you had simply guessed C on every question. C is the most common answer on multiple choice (a percentage or two ahead of B with A & D being rare by comparison)

 

Now ya tell me! :tongue3: :smilewinkgrin: :laugh:

 

Nate,

Didn't you see her say that she struggled with logic. :smilewinkgrin:

I am just giving you a hard time, Marcia.

Joseph Botwinick

 

When I got my Teacher's Degree in 1969, I had taken a
testing class. It is easy to make a test so there are
equally as many A's, B's, C's, and D answers.

BTW, I like the following classes so much I took them twice

High School Algebra II
Trigonmetry
Calculus I of 2

 

Ed, it is easy to make those type of tests, but human nature being what it is, people get lazy and as a result the B's and C's tend to win.

I took a high school physics class in which the final for the first semester was multiple choice, and the answers spelled out "Your Physics Final Is Now Complete" backwards. So, obviously he deliberately strayed away from the Bs and Cs. But as a general rule.... I know that on my EIT test, every Civil & Chemical Engineering question was C

 

:laugh: :laugh:

I know, Joseph! I like ya anyway! :thumbs: :wavey:

 

(I remember posting this somewhere else on BB, but can't remember where.)

SIGN OVER COMPUTER GEEK'S CUBICLE:

There are only 10 kinds of people--

1) Those who understand binary,

and

0) Those who don't!

 

I don't think I took Diff E, but I did take Prob/Stat, and I was fried.

 

You do not have the option for social maths....that is where you learn to count your change........ I am mathematically retarded, much to my father's shame....he had his head stuffed for of tan, cosines, etc as a surveyor.:laugh:

 

I attended WVU. I wrote an argumentative paper in one of my college English courses, that I believe that WVU fulfilled its affirmative action plan through the Math department. Below is why I believed this:

Math 3 (College Algebra): This class involves X, Y, & Z's...my professor's name was Mr. Shonhiwa...he was from Nigeria...he spoke with a profound accent...and his letter "X" was like this ")(" so I thought he was doing parenthetical expression.

Math 4 (College Trigonometry): This guy wore the same outfit from the beginning of the semester to mid semester...and then he changed the sweater (He stunk so bad). He never taught from the book or rarely taught at all. Instead he would just ramble about his hobbies...I do think he was smart, but like the "beautiful mind" guy. Furthermore, the rumor was that his wife had died...and he was surgically becoming her. I believe he had had the top section done. He also lit a joint one day and then quickly put it out.

Math 14 (Pre-Cal): This teacher was from Norway. She spoke with a strong accent, was on the top floor of the tallest building on campus w/o a working elevator or airconditioner...and she never shaved her arm pits.

Statistics 101: This teacher was an Asian Indian. He did not speak a bit of English. Instead they gave him a classroom where around 8 chalkboards wrapped around the room...he was start at the first one & begin writing in English until he filled each one.

It's amazing I got through it all. raying:

 

Statistically, that depends upon (1) the instructor not realizing that they do tend to pick 'c' - they will randomize - I did and (2) the instructor doesn't actully pick at random (use a computer generator) - then you are back to 25% on an abcd test.