Standardisation of Maths Teaching: 5*3 != 3*5 ?

[Csaba Tizedes]

(10-28-2015 05:09 PM)Geoff Quickfall Wrote:  at university I was always amazed at how badly an exam question may be written

My story:
I was a mechanical engineer student and we was on a Control Theory practice (measurement). The topic was "fitting functions - regression".

The teacher asks us what kind of function we can fit onto two points? All people says "linear". The teacher: "...and onto three points?" Silence, nobody says... Then I said: "Miss, a GOOD engineer can fit ANY kind of function onto THREE points..."


Csaba