Last Thursday I gave my precalculus class a quiz. They were given the population of Yorba Linda, CA in 1990 and 2000, told to assume exponential growth, and asked the following questions:

a. What is the continuous growth rate?
b. What is the annual growth rate?
c. Why are a. and b. different numbers?

As the students were handing in their quizzes I looked over the answers. For part c. one girl wrote that the numbers are different because . . . (drum roll filling in dramatic pause) . . . one of them is a continuous growth rate but the other one is an annual growth rate.

After the quiz she gathered her books and left, so I felt perfectly justified in ridiculing her answer (anonymously, of course) when I went over the quiz with the rest of the class. I told them that if I ever asked them why a lion is different from a chicken they should expect to get zero points for this type of answer:

"Well . . . you see . . . this . . . over here . . . (gesticulating wildly to the right) . . . this is a lion . . . but, over here . . . this . . .over here . . .(gesticulating even more wildly to the left) . . . this . . . Ho! Ho! . . . this . . . (triumphantly pointing with both hands) . . . is a chicken!

 

Here's a better math quiz answer for ya...

 

Both are perfectly reasonable. They're going for sympathy points.

 

Hey magician do you teach at Esperanza High?

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Incubus
Both are perfectly reasonable.

 

My daughter is a senior at EHS. I teach one class a semester at CSUF.

What made you think I teach at Esperanza?

 

Oh, you're a teacher!! Now all the fire exit paranoia makes much more sense!

 

Wow CSUF, I used to attend Troy HS, right across the street. Ive never seen a red s2k around the area tho

 

CSUF= good baseball team.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by dave22
Oh, you're a teacher!!