Scan in your best worked examples.Let me repeat that: Scan in your best worked examples. Scan in your best worked examples.
And if you are just joining us... today's advice is: scan in your best worked examples.
I spent about 2 months working through every problem on every page of Exeter Math 1. All 91 pages of problem sets. And finally, today is ScanFest 2016.
I first learned this advice from Sam Shah (of course), and it bears repeating. Your frazzled, middle-of-the-year self will thank you for it.
And now, back to scanning.
What do you do with the examples once you've scanned them?
ReplyDeleteIt's just for me. I make pedagogical notes as I go, and I sometimes work different solution paths. So it becomes a teaching resource for me, one that is better than just an answer key.
DeleteThe lasting benefit comes in subsequent years, when I may not remember what was effective about a particular problem.
Hope this is helpful!
- Elizabeth (@cheesemonkeysf)
I think I missed it... what was the daily advice? :)
ReplyDeleteSeriously though, what a great idea because you could then cut out a snippet to share with students to model certain techniques. Thanks!