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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I mean, defining the cheat sheet limitation in such a way for Math students is really just asking for it ...

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 days ago (5 children)

If the parameter is that it’s 1 sided then you don’t need to be this creative, just have a longer sheet

[–] MrFinnbean@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

I think the joke here is the one sided part. Paper sheet has two sides.

The shape student is using is called möbious strip and its pretty famous mathematical object for being shape with only one plane. Another one is Klein bottle and im sure there are other ones too.

[–] Dicska@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, but that would make them have two sides, one (or both) with writing on it.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 points 5 days ago

"That's like 3 yards of class notes! That's ridiculous!"

"What? Oh this? No I just got a pack of gum at CVS real quick."

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Inefficient though

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 points 6 days ago

drapes the entire class in his giant sheet of note paper

[–] Ravi@feddit.org 62 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Heard of someone writing in multiple colours and using tinted transparent plastic sheets to read it.

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 48 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I wouldn't even be mad. As long as they could explain what a Mobius Strip is, they can use it.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 23 points 6 days ago
[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 5 days ago
[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How else are you going to have a 1-sided sheet?

Hmm. Would the surface of a sphere qualify as a sheet? But I feel that is cheating. The inside would count as another side if you could only get to it.

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 days ago

Not if the sphere is solid!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

I'm no math teacher but I'd call that worth extra credit!

[–] rarbg@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Id only allow it if it was a seamless piece of paper (not taped together) lol

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 21 points 6 days ago (1 children)

i don't think that's fair because such papers don't exist

[–] lambda@programming.dev 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Glue and lots of patience and skill and it can.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

so tape isn't allowed but glue is?

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Just weld the paper. Problem solved.

[–] BolshoyToster@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago
[–] kehet@sopuli.xyz 297 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I would allow it, it's brilliant. The main learning benefit of cheat sheets comes from writing them, not from using them.

[–] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Depends on the class.

I had a statistics course that allowed us one single sided page, but as long as your printer could handle infinitely small print, she didn’t care if you had magnification. You could hypothetically have keychain bible print for your entire book as a cheat sheet, it just wouldn’t help you in the allotted time.

My cheat sheet for R was nothing but codes because I’m not a coder at all (R and basic Linux are my entire coding experience, and it was fucking miserable) and that helped if I remembered to label the fucking codes. And LOL nope.

But I cheated in other classes by doing such nonsense as writing vocab on my shoes… in college language courses, which I paid for myself.. so dumb and counter productive.

I was never smart enough to cheat in regular school.. I just brute forced the work.. ironyyyyyyyyy

[–] white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Reminds me of a final exam in university (engineering course) where the Prof said we could use one double sided sheet. I wrote it in red and blue pen and brought 3D glasses. It was helpful for duplicate things with different info like some tables. I barely used it, but I thought it was clever and funny

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 95 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This. Most classes in uni allowed us to have a limited number of cheat sheets and after writing them I rarely used them. Open book exams are a different beast though.

[–] Brosplosion@lemm.ee 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

One of my math professors would always ask if people wanted an open book take home exam or an in person exam. Those who had taken his classes before knew to never vote for the take home open book, but were always outweighed by the new folks. Hardest exams I took in college by a large margin

[–] vala@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sounds kinda adversarial from the teachers perspective.

[–] Brosplosion@lemm.ee 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ehh moreso that the expectations of the student with all possible resources available are much higher than an in person exam from rote. Some proofs on the in person exam would be trivial as they were similar to ones in the textbook. Take home proofs could go several pages and require you to extrapolate from what was learned so far.

[–] vala@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I understand the "lesson" he's teaching them and also understand that open book tests should be harder.

Point is that he's tricking them. Or letting them trick themselves. That's not what a friend or trusted adult would do. That's what an adversary would do.

He has power over these kids in a big way and should be honest and up front about the reality of the situation.

[–] nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

In college everybody knows that open book exams are harder

[–] scytale@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 week ago

I take certification exams that are open book. I still create an index aka cheat sheet because typing it out makes me internalize what I’m reading. It’s also easier to refer to an index of a couple of pages vs several books in a time-bound exam.

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago

As someone who spent a few years teaching math, this would be a cause for celebration! I would have had a classroom pizza party the next day. This is creative usage of problem solving math that I could only dream about a classroom of students could come up with.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

A great teacher would surreptitiously plant the idea to do this.

[–] Laser@feddit.org 125 points 1 week ago (1 children)

First mistake was to not specify a sheet size

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 115 points 1 week ago (24 children)
[–] user224 59 points 1 week ago (4 children)

OK, based on the comments, it's AI.

This one isn't. A sheet of paper from mythbusters.

[–] MBM@lemmings.world 55 points 1 week ago

it's AI

Looks a lot larger than A1 tbh

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[–] jjagaimo@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Telltales: floor too shiny, machines on the sides dont make sense, inconsistencies in piping in the ceiling, random floating bits on the top right, a few big shadows that dont match the windows instead of many smaller ones

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

Wonky floor hole shape is what made me certain, didn't look too close at first and thought it was photoshopped.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

The spacing on the lights up top is super weird. AI seems to have a real problem recreating consistent repeated patterns.

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[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 57 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Should have specified that the paper must also be orientable

[–] WhyIAughta@lemmy.world 53 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think that might be racist.

[–] blx@lemmy.zip 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At the very least spaciesist.

[–] Shareni@programming.dev 13 points 6 days ago

Definitively dimensionist.

[–] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 week ago
[–] ramius345@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

Something something sheets are planar, but then also allow it because it's great.

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