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 […]
Kyle Flanagan
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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 […]