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- Effective use of Zoom for Teaching Mathematics
- - Teaching aims
- - Online teaching challenges
- - Effective speaking
- - Effective visuals
- - Lecture slides
- - Involving students
- - Effective interactions
- - Obtaining student responses
- - Effective questions
- - Effective breakout rooms
- - Time management
- - Classroom management
- - Effective online pedagogy
- - Course design
- - Lecture structure
- - Tutorial formats
- - Presenting worked solutions
- - Guiding students to deeper understanding
- - Teaching students maths so they learn
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- Effective use of Zoom for Teaching Mathematics
Online teaching challenges
Online teaching challenges
- Can't observe students
- Very limited board space
- Discussions can be more difficult
- Everything takes longer
There are constraints in real-time online lessons due to the online technologies.
Here are some of them:
- variable internet connection quality
- difficult to obtain feedback from students
- difficult to provide feedback to students
- difficult to observe student work
- very limited board space
- handwriting is difficult
- conversations and discussions are difficult with more than about 4 people
- limited to oral/aural and visual communication
- everything takes more time online.
There are also differences in the number of senses that can be used. In a face-to-face class, lessons can involve all the senses – sight, sound, touch, kinaesthetic, and even taste and smell! Online, you are limited to visual and oral/aural communication.
Lessons that were effective in face-to-face classrooms may need to be adjusted in order to run effectively online.
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