Questions tagged [class-participation]
For questions about participation from students in the classroom setting, either motivating them to do so or working with issues related to their participation.
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How to grade a flipped class to improve participation and attendance
A flipped service course for me is an arrangement where videos are online and on-campus class time is used for problem solving by students. I usually have a homework due date the day after the ...
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This is a question I asked on [Academia.se]. It did not get an answer, so I am re-posting it here.
In the country where I live, university students studying mathematics usually attend lectures, ...
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How to choose random student to answer questions?
I would like to choose some random students in class to answer questions.
I don't want to make some students feel that they are targeted. So I used to use a software to choose random student name.
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How To Help a Quiet Class
This term I am teaching a very quiet precalculus class. I am having trouble getting students to answer questions or respond to verbal prompts, even questions I know they can answer. What I initially ...
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How to deal with poor students who don't take notes?
I want to set the context for me asking this question before stating it properly.
I teach at college/university level. This question deals with first-year students, fresh from school. So think ...
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Calling on students by name (who do not volunteer) in math classes
I was reading answers to this question today when I realized we never had this followup question:
How do you effectively call on students by name in a math class?
As a way to encourage class ...
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Repeating basic material in exercise class at university
I am a teaching assistant in mathematics at a university in Continental Europe. The course for which I am an assistant is a third year course, so usually the students are expected to know the basic ...
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Assessing the level of students in a class
Recently I've moved to another university and next semester I will have my first class there. The problem is that I don't know the level of the students that will be attending my class. Of course, I'...
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How to work with polynomials in difficult classes?
I am currently teaching a very difficult class, with young people (16 years old) who are deeply unmotivated and restless. I should work with them with polynomials, but I'm having a troublesome time; ...
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How to better pace activities
I am working as a volunteer, teaching children programming once a week.
The attendence is somewhat irregular (and the children are a bit restless :P) so, instead of more traditional lectures, we try ...
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Nontraditional calculus recitations
I'm a math grad student, and next semester I start TAing a calculus class for the first time. We all know about the standard recitations: instructor gives short lecture on some more difficult topic ...
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Continuity of classes split between different days
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Because of organizational mess, there is a high chance that I'll be preparing a ~3h class for gifted students during a spring-camp (a week-long gathering full of all kinds of nice things to ...
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Students blogging on math
Has anyone had their students (high school and beyond) put expositions of math problems/topics/projects on a class blog to be critiqued by other students and revised on-the-fly to provide some ...
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A one semester-long visual mathematical project
For the incoming semester, my school gave me an amazing new classroom, where all walls are covered by white boards. Even windows are covered by movable boards. It is great to have that much space and ...
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Teaching math in an engaging way
I teach college students and wanted to make my classes more engaging. I found this recent article interesting/useful http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-math.html? My ...
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