Conversation with a Group
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Dance Representations
This is the first class of the semester. Students have been exploring reflective symmetry using movement and are now sharing their representations.
This video was taken in a mathematics for liberal arts class with 15 honors students. It met two times a week for 75 minutes each.
Curiosity - Staging a Disagreement
Calculus 3 students reinvented the definition of directional derivative in their groups. Afterwards the students compare their different definitions in a whole class discussion. Trying to resolve the disagreement creates energy and curiosity in the classroom.
The class had 25 students and met two times a week for 75 minutes each and one time for 50 minutes.
Asking Good Questions
This video was taken in a mathematics for liberal arts class with 30 students. It met two times a week for 75 minutes each.
Project Peer Review in Groups
Students are peer reviewing their math project papers in small groups following the protocol from the composition class.
This video was taken in a mathematics for liberal arts class with 15 honors students. It met two times a week for 75 minutes each.
Calculus 3 Conjectures
A whole class discussion in Calculus 3 about the classification of maxima, minima and saddle points.
The students were given the equation for D but had to find out themselves how to use this equation
to classify a critical point. All groups wrote several examples on the wrap around blackboards to use
as classification examples.
The class had 25 students and met two times a week for 75 minutes each and one time for 50 minutes.