interesting college extra-credit question

[Bill (Smithville NJ)]

(07-18-2015 12:57 PM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  As a math teacher, I would NEVER make such an offer. I don't believe in extra credit opportunities.

Back in 1967, my first year at Purdue University, I had a Physics professor who had been teaching honor students for several years. He found himself teaching a first semester physic class with average students. He just couldn't adjust to us (and we didn't adjust very well to him either). I remember that he got so frustrated at one point that on a quiz we were offered extra credit for putting our name in the correct place on the quiz and for spelling our name correctly. Of course, one student didn't get the extra credit - I think he misspelled his own name.

Later, the professor told us he had done that just to see if we were actually completely reading his quizzes. But I still prefer to think he was just frustrated with teaching a bunch of average students.

I did pass the course, but his teaching methods were atrocious. He was always assuming we already knew what he was talking about instead teaching us what we needed to learn.

The next semester, he went back to his honor students.

Bill
Smithville, NJ