Mastery Quizzes for Mastery Learning
This past spring, I made a number of changes to my first-year writing seminar on the history and mathematics of cryptography. Some …
Playing the Odds: Putting Powerball in Perspective
Today’s fun math fact, in honor of the largest Powerball lottery jackpot ever: If you have to drive more than a third …
Thinking about Think-Pair-Share
I’ve had Think-Pair-Share on my mind for a while now. I believe it started back in the spring, when I was invited …
Leveraging Student Interests through Social Bookmarking
Back in 2012, I wrote a few posts for the CIRTL Network on teaching with technology. Some of the technologies mentioned have …
Tips for Reading Your Mathematics Textbook
Here’s a list of tips I gave my students years ago (while teaching at Harvard) for reading their textbooks. Someone asked me …
Highlights from Carleton College’s Visual Learning Conference (Part 3)
Carleton College’s Visual Learning Conference was one of the most interesting and unusual conferences I’ve attended. As I noted in my first …
Leveraging Student Interests through Social Bookmarking
I have a new guest post over on the CIRTL Network website: “Leveraging Student Interests through Social Bookmarking.” Here’s an excerpt: As …
Diigo Versus Pinterest: The Student Perspective
Last month, I blogged about the choice I gave my statistics students between using Diigo and Pinterest for the social bookmarking assignments …
Infographics, Rubrics, and a Seated Poster Session
A few weeks ago here, I wrote about a rubric for evaluating infographics that my students helped design. That rubric was created …
A Crowdsourced Rubric for Evaluating Infographics
I’m teaching a statistics course this spring. It’s the fourth time I’ve taught this course, and, in an effort to make it …