Pages

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Early Morning Mind Quiz Parts 1 & 2

A couple weeks ago, Professor Rohm gave us a "quiz" first thing. It had three parts: dot the "i", solve the math problem, and write the word "stupid." I suppose for the first and last parts, there was no official correct answer. I proceeded, however, to put a dot on the dot-less i, whereas some people put a boldfaced dot literally on the line that makes the i. As for writing the word stupid, almost everyone printed the word, when the professor evidently meant to write the word in cursive. Who does that anymore? haha. Oh, and I got the math problem right, of course ;)
Just this past Monday, we were given another couple tasks first thing in the morning. The first was essentially a connect-the-dot, where each dot was a number, 1 through 60. We were to make a line from 1 to 2, then 2 to 3, 3 to 4, and so on, as quickly as we good in one minute. I was able to get to 21 the first time around, and I believe someone got to early 30-somethings, which tells me they were studying the paper before we were to begin. In any case, the professor explained to us that there were two patters on the paper, as to where the numbers were written. Apparently, all the odd numbers were written on the left side, and the evens on the right. Also, the first six numbers were in the top half, the next six at the bottom, the numbers 13-18 at the top again, etc. Then we were given a second change to see how quickly we can go through the numbers. This time I was able to go to 31, which is only a slight improvement. I got stuck for a few seconds because the number I was looking for had a line through it already, so it was hard to spot. Someone else in the class was able to get almost to 40.
The second task was a tanagram-type puzzle with 5 pieces cut from construction paper of various colors. The pieces were to form a capital "T" when arranged properly. I'm not sure if anyone was able to get it without the professor's help, but I do think that everyone's pieces were the same cut outs, perhaps of different colors, though. Anyway, these quizzes and tasks are fun little things that are a nice change of pace from normal lecturing. It might be the one thing that keeps me waking up at 7 to go to the class haha

No comments:

Post a Comment