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How to know for sure whether a teaching intervention actually improved things

March 10, 2016

How do we measure whether teaching interventions really do what they are supposed to be doing? (Spoiler alert: In this post, I won’t actually give a definite answer to that…

Can you make “boring” math or physics exciting by relating it to the adventures of a research cruise in Antarctic? Elin can!

January 11, 2016

My friend Elin is currently on a research cruise in Antarctica and you really need to check out her blog. She is writing about life at sea, including the most…

Why you should shuffle practice problems rather than blocking them

December 8, 2015

We like to get into the flow when practicing something, and we like to have our students concentrate on one particular type of problem at a time until they have…

Will giving your students more structure make them need more structure?

November 18, 2015

One of the arguments against offering students practice opportunities online and providing automated feedback right then and there is that that way, they will never learn to work independently. Since I am…

Bridging the gap between conventional mathematics teaching and the topics that engineering students are really interested in

November 16, 2015

I’m very excited to announce that I, together with Christian Seifert, have been awarded a Tandem Fellowship by the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft. Christian, among other things, teaches undergraduate mathematics for engineers,…

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How to know for sure whether a teaching intervention actually improved things

Can you make “boring” math or physics exciting by relating it to the adventures of a research cruise in Antarctic? Elin can!

Why you should shuffle practice problems rather than blocking them

Will giving your students more structure make them need more structure?

Bridging the gap between conventional mathematics teaching and the topics that engineering students are really interested in

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