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Dave Richeson

@divbyzero

Mathematician. John J. & Ann Curley Chair in Liberal Arts at Dickinson College. Author of Tales of Impossibility and Euler's Gem. Coffee drinker.

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Surprises me every year: 'How many questions will the final exam have?'

That's never a good metric for my exams. Some questions are quick, some require a lot of work, some stand alone, some have multiple parts. What information does 10 or 5 or 15 give? Anxious students, I know.

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