Teaching Math with Clickers: Addressing Misconceptions with Prediction Questions
Continuing my reports from the contributed paper session on teaching with clickers I helped coordinate at the Joint Mathematics Meetings back in …
Active Learning Approaches in Mathematics
A colleague recently asked me for some references on commonly used active learning approaches in teaching mathematics. I located a few useful …
Teaching Math with Clickers: Preservice Teachers, Competitive Students, & Visual Thinking
Continuing my reports from the contributed paper session on teaching with clickers I helped coordinate at the Joint Mathematics Meetings back in …
Teaching Math with Clickers: I Liked Getting the Wrong Answer Anonymously
Continuing my reports from the contributed paper session on teaching with clickers I helped coordinate at the Joint Mathematics Meetings back in …
Teaching Math with Clickers: Practice Question or Discovery Question?
Continuing my reports from the contributed paper session on teaching with clickers I helped coordinate at the Joint Mathematics Meetings back in …
Teaching Mathematics with Clickers: Notes from the 2010 Joint Meetings
File this under “Better Late Than Never.” Back in January 2010, I coordinated (with Kelly Cline and Kien Lim) a contributed paper …
More on Flexible Clicker Questions
Just over a year ago, I shared a story here about a clicker question I used in one of my math courses …
Guest Posts on ProfHacker: Multiple-Choice Exam Questions and Pre-Class Reading Quizzes
A few weeks ago, Jason B. Jones, one of the editors at my favorite group blog, ProfHacker, invited readers who teach in …
Making Active Learning Work in the Classroom
A math colleague of mine, who blogs under the name Doc Turtle, recently blogged about his use of a calculus worksheet that …
Nuggets from the Joint Mathematics Meetings
Here are a few interesting ideas shared during the first set of talks about teaching with clickers at the Joint Mathematics Meetings …