{"id":394,"date":"2011-10-01T14:04:26","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T22:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/?p=394"},"modified":"2011-11-22T09:39:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T17:39:44","slug":"an-experiment-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/2011\/10\/01\/an-experiment-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"an experiment in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"vvqbox vvqflv\" style=\"width:400px;height:320px;\"><span id=\"vvq-394-flv-1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/wp-content\/jw-flv-player\/player.swf?file=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia.nwic.edu%2Fsystem%2Ffiles%2Fprivate%2Fmath%2Fvideo%2Fmatteo_parallel_m102.mp4\">http:\/\/media.nwic.edu\/system\/files\/private\/math\/video\/matteo_parallel_m102.mp4<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<p>This is my math 102 class, but the material is obviously relevant to what we do in math 98\/99.<\/p>\n<p>What you are seeing is mostly an experiment that Cassandra and i are conducting with respect to homework. In teh past, we would devote the first fifteen minutes of class to answering questions from the homework, a practice whose effectiveness as an instructional strategy we have been questioning. Now we have changed what we do, and we instead ask a question (from the homework, or homework-like) to the whole class at the beginning of class, and ask the students to fill it out on a index card and pass it back so that we can process it together. Cassandra uses it for attendance. I give a point for extra credit on the previous night&#8217;s homework assignment. It has helped with tardiness, (though not 100% in my class, as you can see).<\/p>\n<p>at one point i give the students some slips of paper to work on. it&#8217;s copies of this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/files\/2011\/10\/par-perp-templates.pdf\">par-perp-templates<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As part of the observation, i would love it if you used a modified version of the form that we practiced on in September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/files\/2011\/10\/Observation_RPM.doc\">Observation_RPM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my math 102 class, but the material is obviously relevant to what we do in math 98\/99. What you are seeing is mostly an experiment that Cassandra and i are conducting with respect to homework. In teh past, we would devote the first fifteen minutes of class to answering questions from the homework, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-recordings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nwic.edu\/mathtest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}