It is interesting to know how long you had been teaching them. These assignments were not that easy to solve.
2011/12/17 Henry Rich <henryhr...@nc.rr.com> > Kids can learn J! > > I teach a highschool class in J, attended by 14 students. For my > midterm this year I set 16 problems. I posted the exam on the Web 24 > hours before it was due, with instructions that they could bring > handwritten notes to class, where they would type in their solutions > during the 2 hours of the exam. > > The median score was 7, with all but one student offering 5 correct > answers. One student got 12 problems right and made a tiny error on a > 13th. Amazingly, 2 students solved all 16. Astonishingly, one of those > students provided tacit solutions for 13 of his 16 correct answers > (tacit was awarded extra credit). > > The exam can be seen at > > > http://www.raleighcharterhs.org/faculty/hrich/Courses/PSE/psemidterm2011.ijs > > and my suggested solutions at > > > http://www.raleighcharterhs.org/faculty/hrich/Courses/PSE/psemidterm2011answers%20gffgh.ijs > > Readers of this space will note my use of the dice/toss thread. > > Henry Rich > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > -- Björn Helgason, Verkfræðingur Fornustekkum II 781 Hornafirði, t-póst: gos...@gmail.com gsm: +3546985532 twitter: @flugfiskur http://groups.google.com/group/J-Programming Tæknikunnátta höndlar hið flókna, sköpunargáfa er meistari einfaldleikans góður kennari getur stigið á tær án þess að glansinn fari af skónum /|_ .-----------------------------------. ,' .\ / | Með léttri lund verður | ,--' _,' | Dagurinn í dag | / / | Enn betri en gærdagurinn | ( -. | `-----------------------------------' | ) | (\_ _/) (`-. '--.) (='.'=) ♖♘♗♕♔♙ `. )----' (")_(") ☃☠ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
