Questions tagged [classroom-interaction]
A focus on the quality, content, or consequences of patterns of action that occur among classroom participants.
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Utillizing Lakatos' "Proofs and Refutations" in Secondary Education
These days I am reading Imre Lakatos's Proofs and Refutations and I can't stop thinking how one could utilize it in the classroom (mostly high school). Some stray half-baked ideas I have had so far ...
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How to make student work in think-pair-share?
I have been trying the think-pair-share technique in my undergraduate linear algebra class of about 30 students. Some students quite enjoy the experience. But I noticed that some other students simply ...
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How to balance between teaching to the standardized test vs understanding?
For people teaching high school standardized curriculums such as AP, IB, or A-Levels, how do you find the balance between preparing students for the standardized test compared to ensuring they ...
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Combative students in proofs classes
When teaching my first discrete math class recently, I found a subset of about 5 out of 35 of my primarily computer science students who I struggled to reach. If these students simply struggled with ...
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Peter Liljedahl "Thinking Classroom" pedagogy: what is evidence for its effectiveness?
Peter Liljedahl discusses a lot about "thinking classrooms". There is research and books, which show, that his methods transform classes from "non-thinking" to "thinking"....
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What mathematics activities get students physically moving?
What college mathematics topics can be taught in such a way that causes students to physically move around?
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Recently, it was suggested to me by a faculty member (from another academic ...
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tutorial active learning
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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Gauging correspondence between classtime and material rate
We are teaching a real analysis course each week for two hours one day and one hour another day. We use a blackboard and we upload most of the class notes to encourage students to participate instead ...
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Physical devices for exploring calculus or pre-calculus
I saw this partial derivative machine yesterday, and it got me excited about other physical devices for exploring calculus concepts in a "lab" setting (e.g. make a prediction, collect data, etc.) Do ...
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Topics in Mathematics for a 15 minute demonstration
I need to appear for an interview for the post of Assistant Professor in Mathematics in an undergraduate college.
My Backgorund : I have studied topics like Algebra comprising of Group Theory,Ring ...
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Making physical 3D models
I was thinking to make classroom illustrations of some 3D mathematical objects, such as graphs of 2 variable functions, minimal surfaces, etc.
My question is, what would be a good way to go about it? ...
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How to organize a "cheatsheet-making session" with students
I am in charge in my institution of a class where students prepare math interviews to enter university. Part of the time is devoted to the review of the topics of PreCalculus and Calculus the students ...
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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 improve atmosphere in male-dominated courses
I'm teaching a graduate applied mathematics qualifying exam review course this summer, and I have 9 males and 1 female. My co-instructor and I are also both male. While I don't necessarily see this ...
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Erasing students' work - etiquette/guidelines?
What are some guidelines on erasing students' work such as on a chalkboard/whiteboard in a classroom or on paper in a private tutorial class?
Usually this is for the parts of maths that involves ...
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