Answer by Amir Asghari for What are your experiences of handouts in...
Once upon a time, I taught a very non-standard, absolutely student-centeredmultivariable calculus course just using handouts. You may find the details here: (2012), Moore and Less!, PRIMUS:...
View ArticleAnswer by Bart Snapp for What are your experiences of handouts in mathematics...
This last quarter I tried passing out a set of "skeleton" notes. This is nothing more than a list of definitions, theorems, sketches of proofs, and exercises. The first definition is numbered, say by...
View ArticleAnswer by Andrea Ferretti for What are your experiences of handouts in...
I would like to make a point that, it seems to me, has not been discussed yet. Regardless of my opinion on whether students can get more or less from a given lecture by having a set of lecture notes in...
View ArticleAnswer by Qiaochu Yuan for What are your experiences of handouts in...
One basic observation, as a student. A big reason for providing notes is if the class works out of more than one textbook (or none at all!) and you want to keep the narrative straight. The professors...
View ArticleAnswer by jeremy for What are your experiences of handouts in mathematics...
From the point of view of (mostly) a student (full disclosure: a physics student!) I vastly prefer to have handed out notes. I have three undergrad degrees: math, physics, and astronomy (each from...
View ArticleAnswer by Zen Harper for What are your experiences of handouts in mathematics...
In undergraduate lectures, Prof. Gowers didn't give out notes in advance; all was written on the blackboard (from memory!) Sadly I never saw his graduate lectures, but I think they were the same.Prof....
View ArticleAnswer by Alfonso Gracia-Saz for What are your experiences of handouts in...
My short answer is to give students the notes in advance, and if that discourages them from coming to class and making the most of it, then I am a poor lecturer.I used to think that I was giving a good...
View ArticleAnswer by Mark for What are your experiences of handouts in mathematics...
The past few years I've prepared and handed out "notes" to my first year Calculus classes. Each set of notes I leave incomplete to various degrees. For the first part of the notes for a particular...
View ArticleAnswer by alex for What are your experiences of handouts in mathematics...
When you take an literature class devoted to, say, Shakespeare, this does not mean that the instructor reads Shakespeare line-by-line during class sessions. Rather, the students read the plays on their...
View ArticleAnswer by Michael Thaddeus for What are your experiences of handouts in...
The idea of handing out lecture notes in advance, thus allowing class time to be used more creatively, is indeed appealing. However, I clearly remember the classes where I learned the most in college....
View ArticleAnswer by Gerald Edgar for What are your experiences of handouts in...
It is common in some subjects--but not (yet?) in mathematics--to have everything on Powerpoint, prepared in advance of the lecture, and available on-line. Students bring their laptops to lecture (when...
View ArticleAnswer by Arturo Magidin for What are your experiences of handouts in...
I know at least one person who actively prohibits students from taking notes during lectures: Ole Hald. See for example here. Note: though the link only talks about upper division and graduate courses,...
View ArticleAnswer by Ilya Grigoriev for What are your experiences of handouts in...
There is one more advantage to having notes in class that nobody has mentioned so far, perhaps because it applies more to graduate-level classes. I often find myself confused because some fact on the...
View ArticleAnswer by Terry Tao for What are your experiences of handouts in mathematics...
Without pre-typed lecture notes (or a textbook that is being followed reasonably closely), many students often feel pressured to copy down every scrap that the lecturer writes down, in case they are...
View ArticleAnswer by The Mathemagician for What are your experiences of handouts in...
I haven't really made up my mind on this issue yet. I think writing up lecture notes beforehand has 2 big advantages over "winging it": 1) It allows you to be much more detailed and thoughtful in...
View ArticleAnswer by Ryan Reich for What are your experiences of handouts in mathematics...
I provide my typed lectures to the students via my website. Looking at a nice, standard linear algebra course, I found that although many people told me they greatly appreciated the notes and used them...
View ArticleWhat are your experiences of handouts in mathematics lectures?
There are many different styles of lecturing, and many different aspects that are blended together to give a whole "lecturing style". That said, I'm particularly interested in hearing people's...
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