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Re: PedagogyCarl Mungan tangentially made an important point that cer=
tainly happens in my teaching... students asking questions about easy=
problems on the day before they are due.
What this boils down to is not about a student with a conceptual prob=
lem, but rather a student with a time problem.
One answer I would give for Carl's question about how to help student=
s is to get them to start on the assigned problems sooner. Of course=
this might be an impossible task.
I typically assign problems at least three days in advance and often =
as much as a week in advance. I rarely get questions until late afte=
rnoon before the 8:00 AM next-day due time. Problems become a lot mo=
re difficult when you are out of time to solve them. On the other ha=
nd, if you can try the problem, get stuck, but have time to let it go=
, then come back... and also have time to talk to others... and also =
have time to read the textbook...
You get the point. I wish students would get the point.
Michael D. Edmiston, Ph.D.
Professor of Physics and Chemistry
Bluffton College
Bluffton, OH 45817
(419)-358-3270
edmiston@bluffton.edu