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Give good teaching a go
It was the Uni of Adelaide Festival of Learning and Teaching last week, and as always there was a string of people telling us about the great things they're doing with their teaching. As much as it can get a bit weary sitting through presentations all day, I really do love seeing that there are people excited about doing their best for student learning.
Splitting logs
In our bridging course (and indeed in Maths 1M and Maths 1A and several other courses) there is a section on differentiating logarithmic functions. One of the classic questions that we ask in such a section is to differentiate the log of some horrifying function, with the intention that the students use the log laws to simplify the original function first and then differentiate. There is something about this particular type of question has long bothered me and I only just figured out how to resolve my issue with it. I'm so excited I need to share it somewhere!
Jamie Oliver's teaching lesson
[This is a guest post by MLC lecturer Nicholas Crouch]
