Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Returning to my story yesterday, the student who wanted to take the Mathematical Methods 1 finals even though he arrived fifteen minutes before the end of the session, Joseph, returned and said that the teacher of the other class, David, had allowed his cousin, who was in that class, to take the test.

I talked to David afterwards, and he said he had allowed the cousin to start the test and would continue it in the faculty room. I told him since there were three students in my class who were not there for the 8 to 10 am session, that I was going to make a new exam for all of them.

David then decided to do the same for his student, and apparently four more who were not present during the morning session and approached him afterwards.

We let those students take the exam during his Integrated Calculus class at 1pm, since there were less than ten of them and he only had twenty students in his other class.

At the same time I also made the finals for the Trigonometric Applications. This time it was the same as the special finals I gave that student I talked about last term, so it was fifteen questions again: three on properties of graphs of trigonometric functions, three on inverse trigonometric functions and three on laws of sines and laws of cosines, only one of which was a word problem.

But I didn’t proctor this test because it was from 1230 to 230pm and that only left me thirty minutes to finish the MM1 special exams.

Of course, my students who have grown to think that asking the teacher questions during the exam is just par for the course were disappointed that I wasn’t there. They kept asking my co-teacher Celia, where I was. They, in fact, didn’t stop asking her until she finally answered them that I didn’t want to see them.

My second to the last finals was mechanics lecture on Tuesday in the afternoon. For this one I only took one question from the finals that I had two terms ago, because I had forgotten that the coverage of that last test was not just conservation of linear momentum but also friction, conservation of mechanical energy.

I took the other seven from the textbook, two on the definition of momentum, three on one-dimensional collisions and three on two-dimensional collisions. Two of the problems had a stationary target and two had a moving target. One was on separation and one was on two cars sticking together after colliding. One problem was on proving the expression for both final velocities of two objects just based on their initial velocities and masses (equations that were actually given in the book). There was only one problem that involved more than two objects in the collision (the same as the separation one really). Two of the problems did not have complete given but instead had ratios of velocities or masses given which could be cancelled.

I told them that the exam had a total possible 140 points out of 100. Not that it helped, really.

There’s the bell, though. I’ll have to continue next time. Class dismissed.