Erica Jacobs

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Erica Jacobs is the Education columnist for the DC Examiner, and has taught high school and college for 33 years. She has been around the education block! Email her at ejacob1@gmu.edu.

  

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Top Ten Homework Excuses

April 25, 3:16 PM
by Erica Jacobs, Education Examiner
 
 
I tried to think of a Top Ten list of homework excuses I've gotten over the years, but my students must not have the same imagination as the math students who posted this blog.

Top Ten Excuses For Not Doing Math Homework

1. I accidentally divided by zero and my paper burst into flames.
2. Isaac Newton’s birthday.
3. I could only get arbitrarily close to my textbook. I couldn’t
actually reach it.
4. I have the proof, but there isn’t room to write it in this margin.
5. I was watching the World Series and got tied up trying to prove
that it converged.
6. I have a solar powered calculator and it was cloudy.
7. I locked the paper in my trunk but a four-dimensional dog got in
and ate it.
8. I couldn’t figure out whether i am the square of negative one or
i is the square root of negative one.
9. I took time out to snack on a doughnut and a cup of coffee.
I spent the rest of the night trying to figure which one to dunk.
10. I could have sworn I put the homework inside a Klein bottle, but
this morning I couldn’t find it.
Topics: student , homework
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