Sharing Teaching Ideas: Puzzles, Puzzles,…

1992 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 278-279
Author(s):  
Carol Isaacs ◽  
Julie Fisher
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Jigsaw Puzzle ◽  
Fairfax County ◽  
Minus Sign ◽  
Teaching Ideas

… and more puzzles. Laura is trying to fit tangram pieces into the outline on a worksheet. Sergei is maneuvering a marble through a wooden maze while Brad is manipulating a ball using two poles in a game called “shoot the integer,” in which students try to score the highest number possible. Jessica is working on a jigsaw puzzle that has a plus sign on one side and a minus sign on the other. A classroom visitor would think that Fairfax County spends all its money on puzzles! Actually, all these puzzles were made by our students.

scholarly journals Introduction: Digital Pedagogy in American Studies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Gessner ◽  
Uwe Küchler
Keyword(s):  
American Studies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Technical Support ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Practical Guidelines ◽  
Digital Pedagogy ◽  
Teaching Ideas ◽  
Looking Back ◽  
Summer Semester

As we are writing the introduction to this special issue we are looking back on the online summer semester 2020, which has profoundly and perhaps lastingly impacted how we do American Studies, not least by pushing us to embrace digital technologies to an extent unimaginable half a year ago. Did we really need a viral pandemic to provide the necessary push for some of our colleagues to become (more) digitally naturalized? Of course not. On the other hand, we would have appreciated practical guidelines and offers of technical support for our digital teaching ideas (as most universities have provided them in the last months) much earlier. Yet, most of these offerings were merely technological or only contained a list of tools available. How can we think critically about our tools, and how can we implement them successfully?

Bingo & The Law Of Equal Ignorance

1977 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-84
Author(s):  
Theodore Lai
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Games Of Chance ◽  
The Law ◽  
Teaching Ideas

Bingo, like other games of chance, can be used in teaching ideas of probability. An introduction to probability may begin with simple experiments using the “law of equal ignorance,” which is the basis of the theory of probability. In a fair experiment, each possible outcome has the same chances to occur. That is each outcome is as “ignorant” as the other. In an unfair experiment, an outcome is favored to occur over the other possible outcomes; the favored outcome is not as “ignorant” as the other.

Sharing Teaching Ideas: Edible Calculus

1989 ◽  
Vol 82 (5) ◽  
pp. 346-347
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Teaching Ideas ◽  
Solids Of Revolution

The other night while preparing supper, I was thinking of my calculus presentation of the day on volumes of solids of revolution and volumes by slicing. It occurred to me that I had the perfect equipment on hand to illustrate exactly what I had gestured and illustrated with some rough sketches. I admit I had also encountered some skeptical looks from my students.

Sharing Teaching Ideas: “Figuring” Out A Jigsaw Puzzle

1989 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 260a-263
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Jigsaw Puzzle ◽  
Teaching Ideas ◽  
Textbook Adoption

This past year was textbook-adoption time at our school, and one of the textbook representatives gave each of the mathematics teachers a small jigsaw puzzle having five brightly colored pieces (fig. 1[a)).

Puzzling in Teams: A Multipurpose Group Activity for Teamwork, Communication, Problem Solving, and Creativity

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 306-316
Author(s):  
Kerri Anne Crowne
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Group Activity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jigsaw Puzzle ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Communication Problem ◽  
Student Teams ◽  
Set Up

Completing a jigsaw puzzle can be a fun activity, but it can also be a learning experience. Here an exercise is presented that involves student teams completing a simple puzzle while at least one of the members is blindfolded. The blindfolded member is the only member allowed to touch the puzzle pieces, and the other team members have to communicate how to put the puzzle together to the blindfolded member. The activity has often been used to introduce a broad spectrum of management topics on the first day of class. It may also be used to highlight specific topics such as teamwork, communication, problem solving, and creativity. The activity requires little set-up and preparation for the instructor and students participating. Debriefing questions are included.

Sharing Teaching Ideas: A New Look For Some Old Algebra Concepts

1990 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-35
Author(s):  
Maureen Johnson ◽  
Pat Ueland
Keyword(s):  
School District ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Past ◽  
Teaching Algebra ◽  
Second Year ◽  
Average Students ◽  
One Year ◽  
The One ◽  
Teaching Ideas ◽  
New Look

During the past two years, our school district has adopted a different approach for teaching algebra to the “average” students. This change was made on the basis of the premise that these students do not need more work in arithmetic but need more time in algebra. Rather than offer a one-year prealgebra course and a one-year algebra course, we decided to offer a two-year algebra course. Students choosing the two-year course spend approximately one year on the first half of the text (the same text as the one used in the one-year algebra course) and the second year covering the other half of the text.

Stromatoporoids from the Famennian (Devonian) Wabamun Formation, Normandville oilfield, north–central Alberta, Canada

1988 ◽  
Vol 62 (03) ◽  
pp. 411-419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin W. Stearn
Keyword(s):  
Patch Reef ◽  
Abundant Species ◽  
The Other ◽  
North Central ◽  
Biotic Crisis

Stromatoporoids are the principal framebuilding organisms in the patch reef that is part of the reservoir of the Normandville field. The reef is 10 m thick and 1.5 km2in area and demonstrates that stromatoporoids retained their ability to build reefal edifices into Famennian time despite the biotic crisis at the close of Frasnian time. The fauna is dominated by labechiids but includes three non-labechiid species. The most abundant species isStylostroma sinense(Dong) butLabechia palliseriStearn is also common. Both these species are highly variable and are described in terms of multiple phases that occur in a single skeleton. The other species described areClathrostromacf.C. jukkenseYavorsky,Gerronostromasp. (a columnar species), andStromatoporasp. The fauna belongs in Famennian/Strunian assemblage 2 as defined by Stearn et al. (1988).

D. The Line Spectrum of Pulsating Variable Stars

1967 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 207-244
Author(s):  
R. P. Kraft
Keyword(s):  
Variable Stars ◽  
The Other ◽  
Line Spectrum ◽  
Afternoon Session ◽  
Empirical Information ◽  
Pulsating Variable Stars ◽  
Almost Continuous ◽  
Informal Approach

(Ed. note:Encouraged by the success of the more informal approach in Christy's presentation, we tried an even more extreme experiment in this session, I-D. In essence, Kraft held the floor continuously all morning, and for the hour and a half afternoon session, serving as a combined Summary-Introductory speaker and a marathon-moderator of a running discussion on the line spectrum of cepheids. There was almost continuous interruption of his presentation; and most points raised from the floor were followed through in detail, no matter how digressive to the main presentation. This approach turned out to be much too extreme. It is wearing on the speaker, and the other members of the symposium feel more like an audience and less like participants in a dissective discussion. Because Kraft presented a compendious collection of empirical information, and, based on it, an exceedingly novel series of suggestions on the cepheid problem, these defects were probably aggravated by the first and alleviated by the second. I am much indebted to Kraft for working with me on a preliminary editing, to try to delete the side-excursions and to retain coherence about the main points. As usual, however, all responsibility for defects in final editing is wholly my own.)

C. The Continuous Spectrum of Pulsating Variable Stars

1967 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 177-206
Author(s):  
J. B. Oke ◽  
C. A. Whitney
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Spectrum ◽  
Variable Stars ◽  
Velocity Fields ◽  
The Other ◽  
Line Spectrum ◽  
Direct Information ◽  
Thermodynamic Structure ◽  
Diagnostic Interpretation ◽  
Pulsating Variable Stars ◽  
The Continuum

Pecker:The topic to be considered today is the continuous spectrum of certain stars, whose variability we attribute to a pulsation of some part of their structure. Obviously, this continuous spectrum provides a test of the pulsation theory to the extent that the continuum is completely and accurately observed and that we can analyse it to infer the structure of the star producing it. The continuum is one of the two possible spectral observations; the other is the line spectrum. It is obvious that from studies of the continuum alone, we obtain no direct information on the velocity fields in the star. We obtain information only on the thermodynamic structure of the photospheric layers of these stars–the photospheric layers being defined as those from which the observed continuum directly arises. So the problems arising in a study of the continuum are of two general kinds: completeness of observation, and adequacy of diagnostic interpretation. I will make a few comments on these, then turn the meeting over to Oke and Whitney.

Observing programme for the 24-inch/36-inch Schmidt telescope

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 337
Author(s):  
W. Iwanowska
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Schmidt Telescope ◽  
Flint Glass

A new 24-inch/36-inch//3 Schmidt telescope, made by C. Zeiss, Jena, has been installed since 30 August 1962, at the N. Copernicus University Observatory in Toruń. It is equipped with two objective prisms, used separately, one of crown the other of flint glass, each of 5° refracting angle, giving dispersions of 560Å/mm and 250Å/ mm respectively.

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