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18:29
Morning guys :>)
 
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19:33
@Zophikel hello, it's evening for me :P
19:51
Technically still morning here. For another 9 minutes, at least.
Two hours later than @Xander, for me.
10 hours from here
Hi everyone
Hi, Dr. Nick!
Dr. Nick??
@Holo $\left(\ddot\smile\right)^{\Large /}$
19:54
@amWhy hehe, me and Holo are nearly on the opposite side of the globe from you guys
@amWhy ${\Huge(}\ddot\smile{\Huge)}^{\Huge/}$
${\LARGE(}\ddot\smile{\LARGE)}^{\LARGE/}$
@Holo Poor guy has a big head! Egg head!!
large in caps still not as big as huge
@TheSimpliFire Why would it be as big?
@amWhy Yea, I hope they didn't get bully at school!
19:57
Challenge: Build a snowman using mathjax only!
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@Holo :P
@amWhy I might have time for that next week
And I haven't had snow since January :/
@TheSimpliFire That's fine... I'll give the challenge 10 days.
@amWhy Oh! that is interesting, the hard part is to make it in proportions, The 3 balls are easy, 3 dots in the middle one and face on the top is easy, another problem is the hands, it will be hard to put them on the middle without moving the head to weird places
No, the hands are actually harder
@Holo remember the carrot for the nose :P
Because I want the bottom to be the biggest
Hmm, he looks on us so nose will be a dot :P
@XanderHenderson Haha
"Hi Dr. Nick" is the only appropriate reply to "Hi everybody!"
I see, so I will make people fat? Nice, I think
Ugh... I have to write an exam. :(
What subject?
20:02
Multivariable calculus.
I don't wanna :(
Oh, sounds tireding
@XanderHenderson you gotta :|
I know. :'(
And then I am going to have to grade it.
When do they take the test? Tomorrow?
@XanderHenderson Is it the final exam you need to write up?
20:06
Yup.
@amWhy I think @TheSimpliFire lied to us to get some time and now he is going to work 10 days straight on the snowball!
The exam is a week and a half away.
I really need to get it done. :\
On the plus side, my trig exam is done.
That is nice, but trig sound easier to grade
@XanderHenderson Should I kick mute you from this chat? :P
No. I'm working on it.
20:07
@XanderHenderson Yayyyyy!
@Holo The trig is going to be much easier to grade. I expect everyone to fail. :(
No, that isn't entirely true.
But that class is really struggling.
Oh, that is too bad, I remember you saying that in the last exam(I think it was the last exam) they had hard time
Yeah, they are really having a hard time. I am hoping that less than half the class ends up DFW. :
@Holo Yup, I obviously don't have essays and projects due in next week!
@Holo hahahaha!
Hello, @Mithrandir!
 
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22:30
How's the multivariate calc test coming along?
Ugh...
They're gonna die. :(
But they are good kids, so it'll probably be okay.
Make the last question fairly easy compared to other questions; it'll help most end the test on a positive note!
I arrange all of my exams into P-, C-, B, and A-level questions.
The last question is always the most difficult.
But they know it is coming.
@XanderHenderson That's what matters; as long as they know what they face at the end. I was the kind of student, always, that went through tests and did what struck me as the hardest questions first, and then filled in the answers to the easier questions, after.
I actually tell them to do exactly the opposite---don't waste time on the hard questions if you can't get the easy ones.
The first 60% of the exam is essentially gimmies (P-level questions, meaning the level of question you need to be able to answer in order to simply pass the class).
Things like "Here's two vectors. Compute their dot product."
Also, I am going to migrate the exam discussion to the realm, as it seems off-topic here.
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22:42
:47863628 Well, I always aimed for 100%'s, so I almost always knew how to do the difficult questions, did them, and had time enough to do the easy ones.
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@amWhy Ack---sorry---I migrated messages out from under you
You might be one of the few that would actually get the A-level questions.
@XanderHenderson No problem; it was a good call to move!
23:26
At any rate, on the last exam I asked my multivariable calc students to show that some function was harmonic.
The first part of that question defined what it meant for a function to be harmonic.
@DRF Thanks for pitching in today in CRUDE. Very much appreciated.
@XanderHenderson Is the course equivalent to what be called elsewhere "Calc III (Multivariate)", taken after Two semesters of calc (unless an honor student in some locations).?

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