formerroomate99
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Post by formerroomate99 on May 22, 2014 1:21:39 GMT -5
I taught statistics classes when I was in grad school.
IMHO the biggest problem my students had was not having a good command of high school algebra.
The other big problem was that they weren't getting their questions answered. Math is not a subject where you can just sit there and absorb knowledge. There has to be dialogue. It's nearly impossible to explain this stuff in such a way that everyone can understand. When I took those kinds of classes, I always asked questions in class and went to my professor's office hours at least once a week. And when I was teaching and my students came in for help, the questions each student asked were very different from what the other students asked. And nearly every one of the students who came to my office hours thought that their questions were stupid. They weren't. They were just things I hadn't thought about.
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TheOtherMe
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Post by TheOtherMe on May 23, 2014 13:32:50 GMT -5
My problem was the high school algebra. I didn't take it and that was why I was in the professor's office all the time.
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