Timeline for What are your experiences of handouts in mathematics lectures?
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| Jun 8, 2010 at 1:10 | comment | added | Alfonso Gracia-Saz | If this had been anybody but Ole Hald, I would be very skeptical. | |
| Jun 7, 2010 at 21:22 | comment | added | Gerhard Paseman | I was a TA for Hald last millenium. In that class (linear algebra for everyone) he used very simple examples and spent much energy and few words on his points. E.g. he asked someone in class for a number; when someone said 1 he wrote a row of 7 one's on the board. After more prompting, he followed it with a row of 4's and then one of 7's. He then used this toward his discussion of column rank = row rank. It was pedagogically perfect: he got his point across to an audience of over 200, without note-taking. Gerhard "Ask Me About System Design" Paseman, 2010.06.07 | |
| Jun 7, 2010 at 20:41 | comment | added | Arturo Magidin | It sounds crazy, and it makes a lot of students uncomfortable. <i>And</i> it takes a substantial amount of his time to get everything just so. But as I understand it, he is an <i>extremely</i> good and <i>effective</i> teacher, as measured by how the students do in later courses. I know I would be hesitant to try it on unsuspecting students, and it may be very sensitive to the qualities of the teacher, but there you are. (Hald is mentioned in Krantz's "The Survival Guide of a Mathematician" for other teaching techniques). | |
| Jun 7, 2010 at 20:31 | comment | added | The Mathemagician | That's crazy,Arturo-and I don't care how good a teacher he is. I wonder how much they actually learn in the course-and more importantly,how much stays with them.I'm highly skeptical. | |
| Jun 7, 2010 at 20:22 | history | answered | Arturo Magidin | CC BY-SA 2.5 |