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From: Jack Uretsky <jlu@hep.anl.gov>
Reply-To: Forum for Physics Educators <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
To: Bob Sciamanda <trebor@winbeam.com>,Forum for Physics Educators <phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu>
Subject: Re: [Phys-l] fun ill-posed questions
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:41:19 -0500 (CDT)
So here is a physics teacher who wants to let us know that in his
opinion all beautiful blondes are dumb? Why would I want to think that
this is a devious posting of an rural (not even urban) legend)? Is the
physics teacher who postedthis a retreaded football coach by some chance?
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Bob Sciamanda wrote:
> I was forwarded the following test question & answer. It may be an actual event or just a fictitious joke. Anyway, it's worth a laugh!
>
> The question Included a drawing of a right triangle. The legs of the triangle are labeled "3 cm" and "4 cm"; the hypotenuse is labeled "x" . The instruction with the drawing queried: "Find x".
>
> The student's answer was a text balloon saying "Here it is!" with an arrow pointing to the "x " symbol which labelled the hypotenuse in the figure.:
>
> Here is the text forwarded to me, along with the (attached) drawing:
>
> Attached is problem 3 on a geometry examination. It is the solution
> submitted by a beautiful blonde student. It is our understanding that after careful
> scrutiny, the student was given credit for the answer by the teacher. When hearing
> of this the Board of Education warned math teachers to be more explicit in the
> wording of examination problems but was hesitant to suggest how.
>
> Bob Sciamanda
> Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (Em)
> http://www.winbeam.com/~trebor/
> trebor@winbeam.com
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