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We wish you well on your exams. We hope the workshops have helped you develop more effective ways to learn Mathematics.
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This course will need your attention early and often. Experience has shown that the workshops are enjoyed by students and they benefit from the learning experience. The workshops are not a replacement for homework but will hopefully equip you with the tools to study more effectively. Attendance/particpation in the workshops will count 10% of your term grade (5% of your final grade).
Activities in workshops:
During the workshops the students will be actively thinking about and solving problems involving calculus, practicing doing calculations, interacting with peers to solve math and problems involving math, and receiving feedback to help them identify and work on correcting possible weaknesses.
Learning Goals:
1. Actively think about and solve problems involving calculus
2. Interact with peers to discuss math and problems involving math
3. Learn how to be critical of work and become more self critical
4. Receive feedback to help them identify possible weakness for home study
5. Practice computational skills necessary to solve problems involving calculus
6. Acquire and reinforce basic problem-solving skills including reading problems carefully and writing down information contained in the problem as a prelude to solving the problem
Make the most of this experience. We have identified that the activity of students working on problems, asking questions of themselves as they go forward, working with others, carefully writing solutions are all very useful activities especially when assisted by our able TA's.
The workshops are organized as 1.5 hour sessions with 25-30 students and two TA's. The rooms have blackboards. The students will be organized into groups of about 3 and will work together through a problems sheet. The solutions will be written on the blackboard. The TA's will circulate helping to check finished work or ask questions of you in order to help you progress to a solution. This `facilitated' learning strategy works and students taking workshops saw improvements in their final exam scores (Students with 3 hour lecture and 1.5 hour workshop did about 5% better on the final exam than student with 4 hours lecture). We hope also the students will have developed a variety of learning skills for later courses. The TA's will help you through this process; just arrive on time
and be ready to try.
The workshops and the solutions will be posted after the workshops have been completed. This will not always be done for alternative workshops. Given that we have Friday workshops, the solutions may not be posted until the following Monday but I will try to enable the files on Friday.
The solutions might be something nice to read while studying for a test although this must be accompanied by working on `new' problems.
Math 100/180 course webpage.
Math 100 and 180 course website maintained by Wayne Nagata, Instructor-in-charge.
Workshop 1 week of Sept 8 and
Workshop 1 Solutions
Workshop 2 week of Sept 15 and
Workshop 2 Solutions
Workshop 3 week of Sept 22 and
Workshop 3 Solutions
Workshop 4 week of Sept 29 and
Workshop 4 Solutions
Workshop 5 week of Oct 6 and
Workshop 5 Solutions
Workshop 5 for Frank de Zeeuw's class for week of Oct 6 and
Workshop 5 Solutions for Frank de Zeeuw's class
Workshop 6 week of Oct 14 and
Workshop 6 Solutions
Workshop 7 week of Oct 20 and
Workshop 7 Solutions
and Airplane problem
Workshop 8 week of Oct 27 and
Workshop 8 Solutions
Workshop 9 week of Nov 3 and
Workshop 9 Solutions
Workshop 9 for Frank de Zeeuw's class for week of Nov 3 and
Workshop 9 Solutions for Frank de Zeeuw's class
Workshop 10 week of Nov 10 and
Workshop 10 Solutions
Workshop 10 for Frank de Zeeuw's class for week of Nov 10 and
Workshop 10 Solutions for Frank de Zeeuw's class
Workshop 11 week of Nov 17 and
Workshop 11 Solutions
Workshop 12 week of Nov 24 and
Workshop 12 Solutions
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