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Trouble with exercises and problem solving in graduate math textbooks
Firstly I'd like to apologize if this is too much of an opinion-based question. I do not know where else would be appropriate for such a post, if there is such a place please let me know.
I am very ...
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What are some good resources to adapt oneself to academia and its customs? [closed]
I am an engineer in Academia, coming from a Master's degree that is pretty distant from Academia. I am ten months into my job and I still feel a bit distant about Academia, scientific research and the ...
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Best way to read academic/scientific books [duplicate]
I’m a computer science student in the second semester. I passed all my first exams fairly well and can follow my lectures quite decent (usually).
But whenever I want to dig deeper into a topic and try ...
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How do I actively learn NEW CONTENT from text based content?
How do I improve my ability to learn?
Here is a similar question. I will tell why it doesn't answer my question here.
Solving exercises is not my problem. My problem is learning the theoritical ...
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How do you study a graduate-level textbook that doesn't have any exercises?
I am trying to self-study a graduate-level physics book that was recommended to me, but it doesn't have any exercises. Also, it's a specific enough topic to where I can't really find any other ...
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How to improve my learning ability to learn from not so simple sources? [duplicate]
I am the person who asked How do I improve my ability to learn? this question. I forgot my last password and username, so I could not respond there so I am responding to comments here how these ...
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How do I improve my ability to learn?
I am decent at learning from videos. But poor at learning from textbooks, wikipedia articles etc. Unless the material is really easy to follow, I am unable to learn most of text content. How do I ...
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Online vs hard copy, which texts are students more likely to read?
I am wondering if anyone knows of any studies that indicate whether students read online texts more or less than hard copy texts.
I am in the midst of trying to "reboot" the intro stats class I teach ...
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Is solving all of the exercises in a textbook a good idea? [closed]
Is solving all of the exercises in a textbook a good idea? I'm particularly concerned with textbooks on mathematics. I have this obsession that I should solve all of the problems that a textbook has. ...
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How can I encourage students to ask questions in class
In my field (as in many others), students are assigned articles or textbook chapters to be read as preparation for classes (i.e. the whole class has to read the same set of texts). I encourage my ...
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What is the point of a lecture when you have a textbook?
I never really understood the point of having a course with lectures when the course has a textbook. Sometimes the subject is so high-level or specialized or so modern that the contents are changing ...
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