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July 23 – Final

What activity or activities were the most challenging for you as a teacher? Explain. What activity or activities that provided the most mathematical insight for you? Explain. What activity or activities are you going to do with your students? Why

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Let’s Abolish Pencil-and-Paper Arithmetic

Go to this web page and read the online article.

http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~ar9/abolpub.htm

Do you agree with the author? Does he make any sense?

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July 20

How do we increase the rigor of a mathematics course without increasing the work? In other words, we want students to do more mathematics but not just more worksheets.

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July 16 – The Feeling of Power

Read the story - The Feeling of Power by Isaac Asimov. What are your thoughts on the story?

The story highlights a valuable point that we need to get across to our students. What is it?

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July 15

Should all student work be graded? If it is not what kind of work should not be graded? What kind of feedback should the students receive instead?

How often do you give feedback that is not just a grade?

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July 14

Please practice adding a comment to this post.  Tell us something about yourself.

What’s your favorite mathematical concept to teach and why?

What is the mathematical concept or skill you find difficult to teach and why?

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