# What do you look for in a student presentation?

Context: I am teaching a course on plane geomtery at an mid-size state University in the USA for students who wish to be high school math teachers. They will have to make presentations once per week, and I want to provide them with a list of goals.

For example:

• able to answer questions from the audience (within reason)
• able to talk about the material rather than read from notes
• able to connect this presentation to previous material
• etc

Can anyone (recommend resources that) suggest what else I might ask for in a student presentation?

• Be able to verbalize equations or theorems. Maybe less of an issue in geometry, but, finding the right language to discuss a formula as opposed to just mechanically reading through it is not easy and it will distinguish those who have thought about the topic from those who are just winging it. For a silly example, calling $ax^2+bx+c=0$ the quadratic equation as opposed to "the equation a times x quantity squared plus b times x plus c". Or, more generally, the process of creating good labels to refer to as to not waste inordinate amounts of time in discusssion. Sep 16 '16 at 12:07