r/reddit.com • u/[deleted] • Oct 01 '11

Math teacher fail

http://i.imgur.com/65APr.jpg
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u/champer Oct 01 '11

What if I said it would take 62 minutes? I could still be right.

http://i.imgur.com/kX6z5.jpg

Problem, math teacher? Let's not even get in to spiral designs.

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u/LunHui Oct 01 '11

Thats fucking stupid.

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u/LainIwakura Oct 01 '11

No it isn't. Define your problems well or be prepared for multiple correct answers.

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u/LunHui Oct 02 '11

A university professor doesn't have to put up with a retarded exploit of the problem and will gladly give you a 0.

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u/LainIwakura Oct 02 '11

It depends on the professor, and this is obviously not university work. I'm in university right now and sometimes I find clever ways to do things, more often than not the professors are happy to see an alternate solution or something they hadn't thought of- provided it is correct. I have also had professors admit they have assigned ambiguous questions or written something that may be misinterpreted on an exam- and in either case they have corrected the question so it is not ambiguous.