This form for critiquing and grading presentations is based on a student-generated list of criteria of effective math presentations. One instructor who used this form for grading commented that content should receive a heavier weighting in the grade so weaker students are encouraged to challenge themselves.
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This peer critique assignment guides readers through the entire peer critique process: requesting specific feedback from peers, providing feedback to peers–including a summary comment and supporting constructive and positive comments, including the received critique with the revised paper, and a rubric that will be used to grade the peer critique. From Mia Minnes’ Undergraduate Seminar in Logic at M.I.T.
Read more →This lesson plan and handout are for an 80-minute workshop to prepare students to write their term papers. During the workshop, an instructor provides guidance for choosing an appropriate focus for the paper (counterexample: “Everything I know about the Island of Corsica”); students talk with classmates to focus their topics; and the class discusses rhetorical differences among papers, presentations, and psets; the writing in two versions of the same paragraph; the structure of a paper; LaTeX; and acknowledging sources. From Mia Minnes’ Undergraduate Seminar in Logic.
Read more →This syllabus describes Mia Minnes’ Undergraduate Seminar in Mathematical Logic, in which students give the lectures. The topic of the seminar was Kolmogorov complexity and algorithmic randomness.
Read more →Skeleton for journal articles to be published in M.I.T.’s Undergraduate Journal of Mathematics. The journal is no longer published, but this skeleton is still used in some of M.I.T.’s communication-intensive math classes. Save the style files as mathp2e.sty and thmp2e.sty (remove the final number from each name) and store them in the same folder as the .tex file.
Read more →A template for submitting pset solutions in LaTeX
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Read more →This grid for evaluating a term paper includes such topics as general aspects (e.g., paper has a clear message), exposition, technical content, and insightfulness. Each category is weighted equally and includes subcategories. From Pedro Reis’ Undergraduate Seminar in Physical Applied Mathematics at MIT.
Read more →These are the syllabus and list of suggested readings for the students’ seminars, from Fabrizio Zanello’s Spring 2011 Undergraduate Seminar in Discrete Mathematics. Some minor changes occurred during the course of the semester, including eliminating the last in-class quiz.
Read more →This syllabus describes Sami Assaf’s Undergraduate Seminar in Discrete Mathematics, in which students do the lecturing.
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