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Old 11-30-2010, 11:56 AM   #13634
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I had a math teacher for theorem proofs who would let us save time on tests by writing "AFCSI" - which stood for "Any Fool Can See It"... Of course, if we wrote to too soon - by his estimate, not ours - we lost lots of points!
My geometry teacher would accept AAFCPS (As Any Fool Can Plainly See) -- but only when it was truly totally obvious. Also by his estimate, not ours. Same loss of points when we estimated wrong too.

He also gave 2x your points back any time he marked something wrong when it was actually correct. This was a challenge to the students: we tried everything to come up with confusing-but-correct solutions to problems. Clever prof got us to do tons of extra work for remarkably few extra points.

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