Teaching Seminar

Fall 2014

All talks are from 12:00-1:00 p.m. in the Seminar Room, unless otherwise specified.

• Dec

  08
• How to set up course webpages using Google Sites

  Will Traves

  Time: 12:00 PM

• Dec

  01
• How can we support each other?

  Academic Center

  USNA

  Time: 12:00 PM

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  Today's Teaching Seminar will be a discussion with colleagues from the Academic Center. The purpose of the seminar is to increase communication between the academic center and the math department. We will discuss topics such as the following: 1. What services are offered to math students? 2. When do you meet with students? 3. How many students do you see? 4. What do you do in extra help classes? 5. What kind of support would you like from the math department? 6. Have you made any observations about the different textbooks we are trying out this semester?

• Nov

  17
• A demonstration of GeoGebra

  Noble Hetherington

  USNA

  Time: 12:00 PM

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  GeoGebra is a software program for graphing, algebra, calculus, and other applications that is easier to use than Mathematica.

• Nov

  10
• When Good Teaching Leads to Bad Results (after Alan Schoenfeld)

  Amy Ksir

  USNA

  Time: 12:00 PM

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  A discussion of a classic article: Alan Schoenfeld's "When Good Teaching Leads to Bad Results: The Disasters of 'Well-Taught' Mathematics Courses" from 1988.