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- - Effective use of Zoom for Teaching Mathematics
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- Teaching students maths so they learn
- - What is a mental model?
- - We are different from most of our students
- - Student maths mental models
- - Doing maths without good mental models
- - Six differences between mental models in experts and novices
- - Part 2: Teaching students how to develop good mental models
- - Part 3: What to do?
- - References
Student maths mental models
Researchers have reported that:
- Most students never develop mental models for the maths they are taught at uni. They rely on memorized procedures.
- Of those who do develop mental models, most of their models are:
- Not good enough;
- Contain contradictions;
- Wrong; or
- Not useful.
Yet, we know that you can teach people to develop good mental models because it is being done successfully in other fields.
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