{"id":2084,"date":"2009-04-07T03:58:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T08:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=2084"},"modified":"2009-04-07T03:58:04","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T08:58:04","slug":"its-a-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2084","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s a Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I taught I tried to instill the concept that you should be able to pass an exam without a single correct numerical answer, because the problem set-up was the most important part of the solution.  Few of my students believed me, but I see that my experience was not unique.  The First Excited State has <a href=\"http:\/\/excitedstate.wordpress.com\/2009\/04\/04\/missing-the-important-stuff\/\">Missing the Important Stuff<\/a>, which sets up a response at Uncertain Principles, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/04\/the_process_is_as_important_as.php\">The Process Is as Important as the Answer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chad points to the problem of giving a problem with only algebraic expressions<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The problem with this method, of course, is that students hate it with the burning passion of a million white-hot suns. If you think they get unhappy when they don&#8217;t have the exact numerical answers to work toward, just wait until you see their reaction to no numbers at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I taught I tried to instill the concept that you should be able to pass an exam without a single correct numerical answer, because the problem set-up was the most important part of the solution. Few of my students &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/2084\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}