There comes a time in every graduate students’ journey when they have to make a couple of transitions: from solving problems that have known solutions, like those in coursework and homework, to solve problems that haven’t been solved yet in independent research. Later, we make another shift from working on […]
Monthly Archives: December 2024
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This year’s GTA Training Activity focused on how we as teaching assistants can better elicit, shape, and respond to student contributions. GTAs are often responsible for managing student contributions, whether in the classroom, office hours, or recitation. In this training activity, we discussed how various strategies for eliciting certain kinds […]
At all levels, example-based reasoning is central to learning and understanding mathematics. In particular, canonical examples-those which can be used to represent an entire class of objects that possess certain properties-are especially valuable in understanding new mathematical concepts. Mathematicians have been shown to productively leverage example-based reasoning for a variety […]