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by localhost
2589 days ago
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+1. Motivation is perhaps the most important aspect of teaching. I find that lectures are a terrible medium for teaching a concept; I find that I need time for quiet contemplation / practice / experimentation to truly understand something. However, lectures are fantastic for motivation and encouraging me to do the extra work on my own. I've been reading (along with my kids) Ben Orlin's Math with Bad Drawings book which is great at motivating and presenting math in interesting ways that are all about presenting things as an interesting puzzle to be solved vs. the way much of math is presented in a rote "this is the algorithm / solution" way. https://books.google.com/books/about/Math_with_Bad_Drawings.... |
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