Designing an Inductive Course for Probability & Statistics

Abstract: Inductive teaching flips the order of traditional mathematics education. Instead of rigidly introducing concepts and theorems and then considering examples and practice problems to understand them, we start by letting students consider the problems and examples and then encourage them to come up with the relevant concepts themselves. Inductive teaching can often have a positive effect on the motivation of students to master the content of a mathematics course. In this talk I will describe our attempt to incorporate inductive teaching into our interfaculty probability and statistics courses. Mathematics is a fundamentally deductive field of study, this leads to dilemmas on both a didactical and social level. I will consider these dilemmas in particular.

mathematics education

Audience: researchers in the topic

Online Seminar On Undergraduate Mathematics Education

Series comments: Description: Seminar on university-level math education

OLSUME is an online seminar centered on mathematics education at the university level. Talks will cover curriculum, pedagogy, inclusiveness, professional development, blended and flipped classrooms, and other topics of interest.

ZOOM LINK: cornell.zoom.us/j/92415199317 Password: olsume