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Monthly Archives: January 2013

Beware of the Toast

There is a little trick someone played on me once as a child and I have been playing on the students in the Drop-In room this week. It goes like this:
Answer the following questions:

What would you find in a haunted house?
What do you call a meal of meat cooked in an oven?
What is the part […]

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Who tells you if you’re correct?

At our uni, the first year maths students do the majority of their assignments online using MapleTA, and this week MapleTA was having problems. As always happens with technology glitches, it was an absolute schemozzle. It was bad enough for students that it was intermitently not working at all, but what made it worse was […]

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