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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
I wouldn't bother at all. Just base your grades 90% on proctored exams where using the internet is prohibited. Those who will cheat on homework and quizzes will fail miserably and that will be their ...
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Is there a fair way to increase the grade of students who did not do well in exams?
With respect to considerations of this kind one should reflect on one's information sources. For every student who exhibits to the professor hard work there are other students who have worked just as ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
I don't think ChatGPT fundamentally changes the ability to use unauthorized aids. Many other source of help have existed for a long time (other students, copying, Chegg, paid tutors, Google, books, ...
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How do/should administrators estimate the cost of producing an online introductory mathematics class?
I can answer a small part of this.
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The most important part of the costs that administration overlooks during these kinds of efforts is the cost of maintenance of the online course content that is ...
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Is there a fair way to increase the grade of students who did not do well in exams?
Follow your syllabus
Presumably, you gave every student a syllabus at the beginning of the course, and this syllabus outlined standards for grading. The grades you assign at the end of the term ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
Here are some suggested changes for dealing with ChatGPT, in no particular order. Note that these are based on our discussions in (mathematics and natural sciences) teacher education, so they are not ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
ChatGPT is stupid.
This is not an opinion, but an observed behaviour. I've asked ChatGPT to calculate a number with 36 divisors and this went wrong, so I decided to learn the program how to perform ...
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How do/should administrators estimate the cost of producing an online introductory mathematics class?
"An online course plays roughly the same role as an interactive textbook."
If we treat the above as a guideline, then some things become clear.
We are willing to spend more on the ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
I think that approaches like: "I don't care if the students cheat in exercises, they will learn their lesson at the exam." don't work well because dealing with large number of students doing ...
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Is there a fair way to increase the grade of students who did not do well in exams?
There is a general principle that if you offer any additional opportunity, then it has to be opened to everybody. You can declare pretty much any grading policy in the beginning of the class. My ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently held a discussion on ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. While they were interested in the impact of these tools on academia in general, I think that the ...
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Homework in a Flipped Classroom
A flipped classroom course does typically have less homework than a lecture one to account for the time spent out of class doing things like watching videos, but it's pretty common to still have some, ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
Explain to the students why using ChatGPT is not in their best interests in the long term in learning maths (or any other topic). I run into this problem with teaching programming, where software ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
I heard this news story about Professor Ethan Mollick, who addressed this problem by requiring students to work with ChatGPT to write their essays. This involved improving its drafts, looking up ...
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Is there a fair way to increase the grade of students who did not do well in exams?
Don't ever do it, because this is fundamentally unfair to every other student you teach
The ideal we strive for as a society is equality of opportunity. We must not mandate equality of outcome - the ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
In my most recent departmental meeting a colleague of mine made an interesting point about the direction of technology as it regards math education.
With the introduction of ChatGPC we finally will ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
I'm on the receiving end of this exercise, so I feel that I'm well equipped to answer this question.
ChatGPT has been absolutely wonderful for me. It has helped me learn a lot more, in a more ...
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Why is absolute value difficult?
This answer is concerned with real numbers only. Adding to Dave Renfro's comment about absolute-value manipulations being—or at least feeling—different from usual algebraic manipulations, and Mark B's ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
Currently ChatGPT is very bad at citing and quoting sources.
This will probably change as the technology advances, but for now any question that asks to quote a source yields a real sounding but bogus ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
You may be trying to band-aid a missing leg.
As another answer mentions, the internet provides a number of means to easily cheat fairly easily. You can take some measures to stop obvious cases of ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
Enlist the Enemy
Ask ChatGPT to help you create math exercises that deter cheating with ChatGPT. No idea if this will produce any interesting results, but it seems like this kind of path is the only ...
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How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
(Edit: Here is another thought, different from my original response posted below: GPT at its current stage of development is pretty bad in solving mathematics problems, as demonstrated by examples ...
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Why is absolute value difficult?
IMHO the main issue is that the absolute value doesn't satisfy any simple algebraic rules, so you cannot simplify the expressions including it. The computation itself is no more difficult than the ...
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