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Teaching through discussion groups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

D. R. Woodall*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, The University, Nottingham NG7 2RD

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In previous years I have taught my third-year Graph Theory option as a standard 25-lecture course of the “definition-theorem-proof” variety. Last year I gave it in an entirely different format, without consequent change of syllabus. I divided the material into nine units each containing text, exercises and solutions to exercises, which were Xeroxed and distributed to the students at the rate of one unit a week. I gave only one lecture a week instead of the usual two or three. And for two periods each week the students were divided into groups of about half a dozen, who met on their own to discuss the current week’s unit.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1976

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