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Teaching Tidbits: October 2016
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Tuesday, October 18, 2016. It's Time to Adjust: the Mid-Semester Evaluation. Editor-in-chief, Denison University. As a student, I was frustrated by course evaluations. Course evaluations are supposed to allow students the opportunity to provide feedback to improve the course. However, my comments were never received in time to improve my course. To address these frustrations, I have turned to mid-semester. Course evaluations. While many such evaluations exist, I use the following in my classroom:. I use ...
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Teaching Tidbits: September 2016
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016. 5 Ways to Respond When Students Offer Incorrect Answers. A common teaching practice is to throw a question out to the class. When a student provides a wrong answer, it can be awkward for both you and your student. What should you do? The way we answer these questions impacts the learning environment in our classes, according to a study in the American Educational Research Journal. Conversations with colleagues Darryl Yong. Create a safe space for incorrect answers. The poker ...
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Is a blog hosted by the Mathematical Association of America. We recognize that few instructors have time to keep up with every advance in educational research, read books on pedagogical practices, and re-envision their classes each year. Teaching Tidbits. Will provide quality, evidence-based ideas with high impact and low time commitment that can be used by a wide audience. Our goal is to provide ideas that you could read on your smartphone or tablet on the way to class, then try the same day!
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Teaching Tidbits: Meet the Authors
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Jessica M. Deshler. Dana C. Ernst. Rachel Levy is a Professor of Mathematics and Associate Dean for Faculty Development at Harvey Mudd College. She serves as Vice President for Education for the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She is a co-author of the textbook Partial Differential Equations: An Introduction to Theory and Applications. Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Mathematical Modeling Education). She is a recipient of the MAA Alder Award for teaching. The Mathemati...
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Teaching Tidbits: Taming the Test
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016. Editor-in-Chief), Denison University. I usually give three to four tests during the semester, and I was puzzled why the first test always had the lowest average test score. After all, this should have been the “easier” material. After some reflection, I found that students were not accustomed to taking my tests. Roediger, H. L., III, and Karpicke, J. D. (2006). The power of testing memory: Basic research and implications for educational practice. 1, 181–210.
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Teaching Tidbits: 5 Tips for Building Community on the First Day
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Tuesday, September 6, 2016. 5 Tips for Building Community on the First Day. Photo Credit: Victor Björkund/Flickr. Recently, I reported for jury duty the Friday before classes started, and was surprised by the judge’s negative reactions to my statement that I wanted to be in the classroom on the first day of classes. I then realized that there is a common misconception that the first day of class is a wasted day. The 2016 Community College Survey of Student Engagement. To overcome these concerning statist...
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Teaching Tidbits: Did They Catch That? The Need for Exit Tickets
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016. Did They Catch That? The Need for Exit Tickets. University of Washington Bothell. Last week Teaching Tidbits covered the Mid-Semester Evaluation, so now it is time to examine another tool that helps teachers assess class comprehension. We give you: the exit ticket. What are Exit Tickets? Using Exit Ticket Data. 8221; or “What would help make today’s lesson more effective? 8221; gives students the opportunity to ask questions they might have not been able to ask during class....
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Teaching Tidbits: Who generates the examples?
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Tuesday, November 15, 2016. Who generates the examples? Have you ever had a student who could recite a definition or theorem word for word, but didn’t really know what it meant? Students often memorized a snippet of mathematical content without understanding where and how it applies. According to Bloom's Taxonomy. The question is, can we, the instructors, work toward this? Requiring students to construct examples and counterexamples places them in situations where they must wrestle with definitions, conc...
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Skip to main content. NASA Federal Credit Union. The American Mathematical Monthly. The College Mathematics Journal. Communications in Visual Mathematics. What's in Convergence? Images for Classroom Use. Paul R. Halmos Photograph Collection. Problems from Another Time. Guidelines for Convergence Authors. Submissions to MAA Periodicals. History of the MAA Journals. Additional Sources for Math Book Reviews. MAA Distinguished Lecture Series. Past MAA Distinguished Lectures. Save the Date 2017. Resources for...
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American Mathematical Monthly Contents—June/July 2013 | Mathematical Association of America
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Skip to main content. NASA Federal Credit Union. The American Mathematical Monthly. The College Mathematics Journal. Communications in Visual Mathematics. What's in Convergence? Images for Classroom Use. Paul R. Halmos Photograph Collection. Problems from Another Time. Guidelines for Convergence Authors. Submissions to MAA Periodicals. History of the MAA Journals. Additional Sources for Math Book Reviews. MAA Distinguished Lecture Series. Past MAA Distinguished Lectures. Save the Date 2017. Resources for...
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