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Having asked a quiz question that went: "What is the yearly,Well, Rick, a few years ago I got blasted for an exam question which was
per-capita cost of.....? " which required that they would have looked
at the hallway display that we've been working on, half of the class
answered with the total cost over 100 years--only a factor of 45
billion too high! 25% knew and 25% were clueless. But what about that
first 50%? If I give them credit for understanding the work 'yearly'
(not certain I should), then they clearly don't understand the term
'per-capita' or else their reading skills don't include worrying about
adjectives.
Jim Green is always on us to use the most precise, formal Physics
language, but how can we succeed at that when we can't even communicate
in the vernacular (whoops--in ENGLISH). All the students are English
speaking by the way! To twist a Beatles lyric--I've got to admit it's
harder, getting harder all the time.....