By Nico Espinola Posted June 9, 2016
Mr. Brant Corak, a math teacher for the past 20 years, was quite alarmed to find out that many of his students have been getting their answers from the internet.
“I was extremely surprised to find out that many of my students have been getting their answers from the internet instead of actually doing the assignments. I didn’t realize that was something that existed,” Corak said.
Corak has always wanted his students to show their work on every assignment, but some don’t show any work and claim it is all done in their heads.
He has always been impressed with these students because of the difficult math that they are capable of doing in their heads until he found out that the answers are really just coming from the internet.
“To prevent further cheating, Corak changed the title of worksheets to throw students off the scent. Erick Herrera, a student in Corak’s class responded to this action.
“I tried looking the answers up by the title of the worksheet and I couldn’t find anything. Then I just searched for a few of the problems and the answers came up right away, it didn’t take long at all.”
Corak now requires students to show all the work they do on every problem or the assignment will receive a zero, but there probably still is a way to get around that.
“If he keeps changing things I’ll probably just cheat the old-fashioned way,” said Herrera. “Or maybe I could just learn the material…nah.”
Corak plans to spend this summer finding more ways to prevent cheating on his assignments.
