Like Zapper, I also believe such assignments are good mental exercises. They are great ways to make students "think outside of the box" and develop their deductive reasoning skills. However, the way this guy operates is to assign a project, give a strict set of guidelines, and then make it as...
Thanks! (Daughter needs help)...
First: just wanted to say "many thanks" to those who have given suggestions.
Second: I was gently chastised by the group mentor for my posting on this website, so I apologize if I upset anyone by posting something inappropriate for this forum.
Third...
My daughter has a sadistic physics instructor who just LOVES to see kids fail. He assigned the following problem to 50 students, but "guarantees" there are no where near 50 answers. Since every student must have a different solution, only a small portion of the class will have a chance of...