EVENTS

Bressoud
Chartier
Chinn
Clark, D., et al.
Clark, L.
Covington
Daniels/Armendariz
George
Hodge
Insall
Landry
Laursen/Douglas
Mahavier
McKee, et al.
Moore/Rossa
Nordstrom
Parker
Renesse/Hotchkiss
Renesse
Roe
Saturday AM
Selden, et al.
Shubin
Siegel
Socha, et al.
Sommers
Spresser
Yoshinobu, et al.

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January 2021 

 

Kerry McKee                                   
New Mexico State University

Annie Selden                                   
New Mexico State University

John Selden                                   
New Mexico State University

Understanding and Constructing Proofs: A Course for Helping Students to Construct Proofs

I will discuss a Modified Moore Method course for helping advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students to construct proofs. This course has been taught eight times to date and each time we are learning something more about students’ proving capabilities. For example, beginning students often fail to examine the conclusion to see where they are going; instead, they begin with the hypotheses and forge ahead rather blindly. This is a "bad habit" that needs to be replaced by the "good habit" of examining and unpacking the conclusion. I will discuss what we are doing to help students succeed.

Educational Advancement Foundation