Teaching and Learning Observation
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Students
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Instructor
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Matteo Tamburini 12:31 pm on April 27, 2011 Permalink
What evidence is there from what the students say or ask that they are actually learning something?
I try to ask students to justify their reasoning: how do they do? Is there evidence that they are reasoning mathematically? can you see times when I could probe further into what they are thinking?
if you make it all the way to the end (it’s a long video!) you’ll see that I give the students an “exit ticket”. What do you think of the problem I pose? Is it a good measure/snapshot of what the students understand or don’t? If you asked that question to your students, what misconceptions would you expect to find in the answers?
Jay Giles 9:23 am on April 29, 2011 Permalink
Good discussion of a confusing subject for most students. I could have followed along a bit better had I been able to more clearly see the problems that you were writing on the whiteboard.