As someone who spent a few years teaching math, this would be a cause for celebration! I would have had a classroom pizza party the next day. This is creative usage of problem solving math that I could only dream about a classroom of students could come up with.
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kehet@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I would allow it, it’s brilliant. The main learning benefit of cheat sheets comes from writing them, not from using them.
Bluewing@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A great teacher would surreptitiously plant the idea to do this.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Depends on the class.
I had a statistics course that allowed us one single sided page, but as long as your printer could handle infinitely small print, she didn’t care if you had magnification. You could hypothetically have keychain bible print for your entire book as a cheat sheet, it just wouldn’t help you in the allotted time.
My cheat sheet for R was nothing but codes because I’m not a coder at all (R is my entire coding experience, and it was fucking miserable) and that helped if I remembered to label the fucking codes. And LOL nope.
But I cheated in other classes by doing such nonsense as writing vocab on my shoes… in college language courses, which I paid for myself… so dumb and counter productive.
I was never smart enough to cheat in regular school… I just brute forced the work… ironyyyyyyyyy
white_nrdy@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Reminds me of a final exam in university (engineering course) where the Prof said we could use one double sided sheet. I wrote it in red and blue pen and brought 3D glasses. It was helpful for duplicate things with different info like some tables. I barely used it, but I thought it was clever and funny
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
This. Most classes in uni allowed us to have a limited number of cheat sheets and after writing them I rarely used them. Open book exams are a different beast though.
Brosplosion@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
One of my math professors would always ask if people wanted an open book take home exam or an in person exam. Those who had taken his classes before knew to never vote for the take home open book, but were always outweighed by the new folks. Hardest exams I took in college by a large margin
vala@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds kinda adversarial from the teachers perspective.
Brosplosion@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Ehh moreso that the expectations of the student with all possible resources available are much higher than an in person exam from rote. Some proofs on the in person exam would be trivial as they were similar to ones in the textbook. Take home proofs could go several pages and require you to extrapolate from what was learned so far.
scytale@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I take certification exams that are open book. I still create an index aka cheat sheet because typing it out makes me internalize what I’m reading. It’s also easier to refer to an index of a couple of pages vs several books in a time-bound exam.