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06-13-2007, 04:22 AM
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| |  What Makes A Good Math Teacher?
Honestly, what makes a good math teacher?
I feel that a good math teacher does not intimidate his or her students through assignments way beyond the years of the students. This is very common in math courses.
I feel that a good math teacher or math tutor can reduce the material to the level of students.
I feel that math is only as hard as the person who is teaching it.
What is your view?
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06-13-2007, 08:59 AM
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Originally Posted by blueridge  Honestly, what makes a good math teacher?
I feel that a good math teacher does not intimidate his or her students through assignments way beyond the years of the students. This is very common in math courses.
I feel that a good math teacher or math tutor can reduce the material to the level of students.
I feel that math is only as hard as the person who is teaching it.
What is your view?
Thanks | I know that when a person knows too much he becomes a bad math teacher. Because he tends to explain more advanced concepts the students cannot follows. In fact, most the the great mathemations from history where horiffic teachers excluding Karl Jacobi.
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06-13-2007, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by blueridge Honestly, what makes a good math teacher?
I feel that a good math teacher does not intimidate his or her students through assignments way beyond the years of the students. This is very common in math courses.
I feel that a good math teacher or math tutor can reduce the material to the level of students.
I feel that math is only as hard as the person who is teaching it.
What is your view?
Thanks | It depends on the student, I suspect what some here would consider a
good teacher would horrify the majority of the students asking questions
here (see the links in Plato's post)
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Originally Posted by CaptainBlank It depends on the student, I suspect what some here would consider a
good teacher would horrify the majority of the students asking questions
here (see the links in Plato's post)
RonL | I think I would make a good professor.
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And he (Elisha) went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, "Go up, thou bald head"; "go up, thou bald head". And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore up forty and two children of them.
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Originally Posted by ThePerfectHacker I think I would make a good professor. |
I rest my case 
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I do not know much about math education. But I believe George Polya was a very good teacher, many textbooks on math mention him and his teaching methods.
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And he (Elisha) went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, "Go up, thou bald head"; "go up, thou bald head". And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore up forty and two children of them.
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06-13-2007, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by ThePerfectHacker I do not know much about math education. But I believe George Polya was a very good teacher, many textbooks on math mention him and his teaching methods. | His books were compuslory reading for maths students when I was an undergraduate.
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His books were compuslory reading for maths students when I was an undergraduate.
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That explains a lot about today's general ignorance about the subject 
...May I ask when was that exactly?
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Originally Posted by Rebesques That explains a lot about today's general ignorance about the subject
...May I ask when was that exactly? | 1970's
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