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Not sure if this helps. I just learned something from Peter Liljedahl's Building Thinking Classrooms in Math. He suggests something to the effect of dissuading collaboration around a table, but rather students work at the (vertical) board in groups of ...
Hi Robert, Like you, I was also impressed by Eric Mazur's live presentation and began adding active learning, not just in the classroom, but also in HW. In my College Algebra projects, I use active learning or inquiry type questions, so students can ...
It has been said by more than one calculus I instructor that the best course in preparation for calculus I is calculus I (due to the fact that so many students develop the necessary precalculus algebra skills on their first attempt at calculus I). ...
The traditional mathematics class is a “teacher-telling” ...
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