Peanuts by Charles Schulz for November 09, 2020

you don’t do your homework at all, do you, Miss Reichardt?

Calvin would probably say the answer is 32.

I remember when someone told me that guessing on a multiple choice exam gave you at least a 20% chance of getting it right. Eliminating the obviously wrong answer raised the odds, if you could find that one.

If nothing else she might give the teacher a good laugh.

It’s just an essay P.P.. Just talk the answer through and put what you said on paper.

If you say you can’t you are 100% right.

“If you can’t blind them with brilliance, baffle them with bulls***.”

“I’ve got a million to one chance”…the mantra of every Lotto player…

I had an instructor tell me that it’s better to answer the question than to leave it blank.

I’m sure half of my students are reacting thus…

Certainty of the bad outcome versus possibility of the good outcome — possibility wins.

No need to announce it to the world.

oddly inspiring.

BANZAI!

I’m sure some of the world’s greatest dissertations were created exactly that way.

I love her moxie!

Peppermint Patty is nothing if not enthusiastic.

I once wrote a paragraph on a test on how I didn’t know the answer.

The way some politicians go a out business.

One of the reasons I chose to teach Mathematics instead of one of my other areas of interest was … no essay questions to grade.

It’s possible that yelling in class during an exam might have drawn some unwanted attention.

..Well, just fake it ’til you make it.

That’s the spirit and that’s what I tell my student’s. Can’t get any credit for an empty space and even if I laugh at the answer, I will usually give a partial credit…..

“As this essay question is putting me in Jeopardy, ‘What is I don’t know?’” (RIP, Alex Trebek)

Remember Alice and her pangolin speech during show and tell? Use her as inspiration!

Peppermint Patty – the Han Solo of the previous generation …

I’m minded of an essay question I was given in first grade: “How did the Pilgrims come to America?” I wrote, “On a boat.” and left it at that. Brevity, after all, IS the soul of wit.

I once wrote an essay in one of those state exams in which I had no idea what it was about. Nearly 20 years later still no correction

The World War I flying ace had been shot down by the Red Baron. He made his way to a little French cafe where he spied a beautiful young maiden . . .

Sometimes, simply writing for long enough allows you to stumble on the correct answer. It has been my saving grace on many tests, and why I still prefer it to a multiple-choice test.

I guess her one a million estimate is still better than a monkey, given an infinite amount of time, typing all of Shakespeare’s works.

I think I had a few students like that. :-D

According to Terry Pratchett, a million-to-one chance succeeds nine times out of ten, so go for it Patty.

Could be worse, could be an opinion question.

I do remember having those questions in school. “In you opinion what was the main differnces between the New England colonies and the southern colonies?” or “What do you think caused colonists to come to the Mid Atlantic colonies rather than coming to either the New England Colonies or the Southern Colonies?” I always wondered how teachers could properly grade those vs. grading essay questions. Now I figure the teacher just had to look and see if you supported your opinion with material from the text. Same as an essay really. But at least the essay questions tended to be straight forward “give us an answer out of the text”, so the questions would be something like “List three reasons the early colonists settled where they did and explain your answer.”