{"id":60,"date":"2007-03-06T20:21:20","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T01:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2007-03-06T20:21:20","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T01:21:20","slug":"roll-the-dice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/03\/06\/roll-the-dice\/","title":{"rendered":"Roll The Dice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something to make your assignment collection more interesting.\u00a0 I routinely assign five homework problems.\u00a0 Then I collect one of them.\u00a0 I decide which one to collect by rolling the dice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.findlay.edu\/trusty\/dice\/\">http:\/\/homepages.findlay.edu\/trusty\/dice\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, there are six possible numbers.\u00a0 I treat the six like a freebie.\u00a0 If\u00a0it comes up, I don&#8217;t collect anything.\u00a0 You would think the students would want the six to come up every time.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not the case.\u00a0 If one homework problem was easy, they would prefer that number to come up.\u00a0 That way it&#8217;s easy points.\u00a0 Ten out of ten is better than zero out of zero.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something to make your assignment collection more interesting.\u00a0 I routinely assign five homework problems.\u00a0 Then I collect one of them.\u00a0 I decide which one to collect by rolling the dice. http:\/\/homepages.findlay.edu\/trusty\/dice\/ Of course, there are six possible numbers.\u00a0 I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/03\/06\/roll-the-dice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}