Presenting worked solutions

Presenting worked solutions

  • Pre-prepare solutions
  • Keep solutions succinct
  • Provide complete solutions
  • Hand writing solutions onto a small screen is challenging. Here are some effective approaches.
    • Pre-prepare the worked solution. Have it succinctly written out in front of you. Then take the time to write it up neatly and carefully in a way that makes it fit nicely onto the board.
    • Share a whiteboard and collaboratively work up the solution with the students.
    • Write up the worked solution in MSWord, then cover the text with many white rectangles, and uncover the rectangles one by one as you work through the solution.
    • Write up the worked solution in LaTex, using the Beamer uncover command, then uncover the solution a little at a time as you work through it.
    • Write up the solution in One Note, or handwrite and scan the solution, then use a “gradually uncover” approach to display the solution in the class. You can achieve this by covering the solution with a white rectangle that you gradually move, or remove.
  • Keep written solutions succinct. Don’t write more words than you need to. Save the extra words for your oral explanation.
  • Ensure solutions are complete. Model solutions that will get students full marks. Do not cut corners in written solutions, or omit bits.