I finished the grading! And with half an hour until it's kid-fetching time to spare!

Now I won't have to grade anything until... next year. 😳

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Yay: student using a trigonometric identity for the double angle

Meh: student using it to evaluate the sine of the TRIPLE angle

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If all you know is separation of variables, every differential equation looks separable, according to my students 😑

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Only about 1/3 of my students went with the obvious substitution choice (which works, it wasn't a trap!).

About 10% attempted one that they could've made work with some trigonometric identity wrangling, but went for wishful thinking instead 😔

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Dear person who (incorrectly) evaluated a limit as infinity/12 and concluded that this was equal to one... Shall I introduce you to renormalization? I think you'll like it.

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As we were talking about how using correct Latin plurals feels pretentious at times the other day, I just wrote "limites not evaluated" on an exam and did feel pretentious...

(Changed it to just "limits", but it doesn't come naturally!)

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Meh, grading sucks even more of sitting at a desk for longer periods is painful.

*does some Yoga moves for ver hip*

(Yes, I know I'm very fortunate to only have figured that out now!)

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"This class really taught me to look at things in a uniquely critical lens, below the surface level of culture." #AmTeaching #AmGrading

One student, reflecting on their learning this semester: “sometimes you need to walk through the mud to find the direction.” YES #AmTeaching #AmGrading

The reading of the papers shall now commence. #amgrading

#AmGrading Three-quarters of the way done with grading this logjam of an assignment. Am so tired but also SO CLOSE in a way that is actually not that close at all. blargh.

Grading is finished! So is putting grades into the online system! Yay!

I'm pleased by the average as well as the grade distribution. Everyone who failed failed cleanly without being an edge case; no one failed their final try.

I which I could do more for the students who fail with < 10 % of the maximum points though.

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The number of students wanting to calculate a complex number's power by multiplying it, well, multiple times instead of using de Moivre's formula (which they have all the ingredients for!) surprises me.

Come on, folks, it was /difficult/ to prove that thing for the poor guy! You might as well get some use out of it!

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FINALLY a student noticed the really big hint I sneakily dropped and used it instead of doing a lot of work* in this exam question! Yay!

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*which also yields results, if course. Just takes more time.

It's kind of sweet when students write "I'm sorry, I had a blackout here, I know what to do but I just can't give the derivative of cos(xy) right now".

I'm always "awww poor thing, don't be sorry, exams kill brain power like that 😔" and my heart goes out to them

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"Hadestown" remains very good grading music!

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Yay: grading this exam question very quickly

Meh: it's because a lot of them didn't even attempt to do it 😔

I /like/ giving partial credit for wrong stuff, folks!

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What I also love: seeing students notice their Ansatz yields nonsense and correcting for it. That's exactly what I want them to learn to be able to do.

(I'm thinking a lot about my teaching style and goals lately; maybe I'll write more about it later)

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This one, however, does a proof by going "you can clearly see X is fulfilled" - well nope, it's your job to show me!

(They didn't get /that/ technique from me, I've always hated "this is clearly trivial and left as an exercise to the reader" in math textbooks)

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Awww this student gets so excited proving their series converges: "this is fulfilled! And this as well! So it's convergent!!!" Adorable 🥰

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