Questions tagged [tutoring]
For questions about exercise groups; tutors, TAs, exercise group leaders and everything related to that.
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Software to create video tutorial of mathematics topics
I came across many video tutorials on youtube regarding mathematics.
I found this video amazingly simple to understand for students.
I want to know about the tool/software used for it or similar ...
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How to cure students from the idea that root and squaring are identity operators?
I tutor high school algebra and I’ve noticed that a lot of my students don’t seem to understand what they’re doing when they “convert” between different ways of writing numbers involving perfect ...
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How do I motivate my students to go to office hours?
I'm currently TAing a Linear Algebra class where a significant portion of the class is struggling, oftentimes getting marked down on homeworks or tests because they misunderstand some concept (rather ...
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Is it good to have solutions of homework published?
At a course at the university, the students have to do homeworks every week which will be graded and discussed in exercise groups.
Is it a good idea to put "official" solutions of the homework on ...
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How to teach a student algebra who misses too much previous knowledge?
I am now tutoring a student in Grade 9, who falls behind in math study. He lacks the basic understanding of operations and inverse operations, and have trouble dealing with negative numbers and ...
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What to do when you get "the empty stare"?
First, I am not a professor, but I was a teaching assistent for a couple of courses. One time I took over a few sections for a friend who was also a TA. The course was 'math for chemists' (I think it ...
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How to Teach Adults Elementary Concepts
I've recently taken on the task of helping out in my school's Math Center. The courses I assist in range from Algebra to Calculus. While I'm younger (in my 20's), most of the students at the school ...
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Real time interactive whiteboard for tutoring math
I have reposted this question on Software Recommendations.
I'm looking for a web app for tutoring math remotely to high school and junior high kids that ideally has the following:
Build in graphing. ...
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How to help motivate math when tutoring low level algebra (High school)
I was tutoring a student today and we were doing basic factoring of quadratics and expanding terms like $(x+2)(x+5)$. Now he ended up being able to do this by the end of our 2 and a half hour session, ...
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How to nurture a good student?
When you encounter a very bright student in a first-year (college/university) class (and who is therefore bored), what do you do?
Leaving them to their own devices can be problematic. It can lead to ...
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Hardware for real time streaming of writings and drawings
Looking for the necessary hardware to share, in real time streaming, the writings and drawings done in a paper or notebook.
It looked like something easy to find but after two hours goggling, nothing ...
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Tutoring elementary student who reverses left and right
I am a volunteer math tutor. My student is in fifth grade. He was evaluated in August and found to be at the first grade level in math. (His reading is very close to grade level.)
He has epilepsy, ...
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Tips for Teaching Math in a Language Foreign to the Teacher
I retired after 25 years of teaching and moved to Israel a year ago. My Hebrew is okay, but before moving here, I had no experience talking about math in Hebrew. I have been learning Hebrew math ...
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How to balance higher order thinking and drill/practice
Some place emphasis on higher order thinking skills at the cost of lower emphasis on drill/practice. Others disagree. Personally, I agree that higher order thinking skills are necessary for effective ...
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Convincing a student it's OK to move on to another problem
I'm tutoring a very bright middle school student in a difficult geometry class. He understands most of the material, but struggles with some of the hardest problems and proofs. I find that when he ...
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Amount of concrete calculations on board?
Imagine that you are teaching a high school class in the last years of high school, an undergraduate class in university, or you are a tutor of a small group at university.
Should one provide ...
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How to choose/test future tutors?
When I have to give a big lecture with a lot of exercise groups, I have to choose the tutors who are grading the student's homework and explaining the lecture to the students.
How can I find out if ...
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How to effectively run large exercise groups?
The Question
Quite often one is faced with the task of running a large exercise group (think 40+ students in the room). What are some strategies to make the most of the (limited) time for the students?...
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Studies about group tutoring sessions
I’m not sure if this question belongs here, so I apologize if it doesn’t.
I work in a tutoring center at my university where we tutor every subject. Mathematics is in high demand, and occasionally my ...
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Pen tablet recommendations? (Mac OS)
I have been tutoring using my iPad and I love it. Now that I'm moving away, my students have requested that I continue tutoring them online, and I'm not sure I can do so using my iPad anymore. I would ...
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