Timeline for How to motivate students to do readings
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| Aug 3, 2016 at 7:37 | vote | accept | Kimball | ||
| Apr 16, 2016 at 12:54 | comment | added | Kimball | @theindigamer Indeed, thanks. One of my courses is something like the foundations course mentioned in that post, and I have been looking for a book, so I will look at the one the mentioned there. (Though I do worry that our student bodies have a quite different makeup.) | |
| Apr 16, 2016 at 3:04 | comment | added | typesanitizer | You might find this helpful: AMS blog post My Lecture-less Modern Algebra and Foundations Courses–Part I of an Ongoing Saga | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 23:24 | comment | added | StrongBad | @fmlin while I have no doubt it is on topic there, it is also on topic here. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 23:19 | comment | added | user22080 | Good question, but why not math educator stack exchange? | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 23:07 | comment | added | paul garrett | Yes, indeed, readings that are genuinely interesting, or at least engaging, if only for non-mathematical details, are essential. Technical readings are tough to sell. The usual, and obvious. Thinking how to get the students to want to read the stuff is the issue... and "threats" are not the ideal, clearly. We'd wish they'd read the stuff because it is so amusing/charming/engaging. Certainly standard math textbooks almost uniformly make even the best mathematics dreary and unexciting, completely lacking in drama, all feeling removed. | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 22:51 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackAcademia/status/721108814993481729 | ||
| Apr 15, 2016 at 22:34 | answer | added | StrongBad | timeline score: 11 | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 22:16 | history | asked | Kimball | CC BY-SA 3.0 |