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Happy Photographers
Once upon a time at my place we used to watch “New Zealand’s Next Top Model” and “America’s Next Top Model”. They were a bit of light fluff that we could have on while doing something else.
Every week in the show, the remaining models had a photoshoot. This involved some famous photographer taking photos of […]
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Can I take a cheat sheet?
The first maths exams for the year are tomorrow, so recently I’ve been talking to more and more students about exams. To be clear, I’m not complaining about this! It’s a really important part of the MLC’s role to give students advice about exams, since they have such a huge impact on the students’ experience […]
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Bathelling in assignments
The Deeper Meaning of Liff by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd defines the word bathel like this:
bathel (vb.) To pretend to have read the book under discussion when in fact you’ve only seen the TV series or movie.
I do not like to bathel, and in fact it is one of my life’s ambitions to find […]
Rule collision
The same experience has happened to me several times in the Maths Drop-In Centre recently — with different students from different courses — and it was such a strong pattern I need to talk about it.
The students are doing some algebra involving negative powers on the tops of fractions. Something like this:
Now they remember this […]
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Discounting your problem-solving
As I was leaving the other day, a student said that she would come to see us the next day to ask some questions about her assignment. She said she had tried to do as much of it herself as she could, and had only done 70% of it.
The “only” made me start — she […]
Only one chance
We’ve been running Drop-In Centre tutor training recently, and as part of the training we discussed the statistics on how students use the Centre. The focus of this post is the following graph:
The graph describes how many students visited the Centre various numbers of times across 2010.
There are many things you could notice about this […]
The Bare Drop-In Centre Walls
I took down all the posters in the Maths Drop-In Centre on Friday and the effect is startling.
(The reason I took them down is that the Drop-In Centre is moving to a new location in under two weeks and I needed to feel like I was doing something before the boxes arrive and we can […]