RE: [Fhsst-authors] worked examples in maths

[Clare Johnson]

hi Sam

I think there is a place both for worked examples and for exercises in the
maths text (I don't know how you are doing it in physics)... the worked
examples in the midst of the chapters are good to illustrate the method you
are describing, otherwise it is quite sterile and might be difficult to
relate the exercises at the end of the chapter to specific portions of the
text. those exercises are more useful for mixing up a whole lot of concepts
to see whether the little bits in the chapter have been consolidated into
one marvellous whole.

but I like solutions at the end of the book - it's more work but those were
my favourite textbooks at school and varsity :) even if it is just the odd
numbered exercises or something.

Clare 

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Sent: 25 August 2004 07:58
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Subject: [Fhsst-authors] worked examples in maths

hi there,

i have been thinking about worked examples in maths a lot recently, and i
decided that the way things are done in physics does not really make much
sense for the maths book.

i am thinking of maybe moving the worked examples out of the main body, and
instead having a list of "exercises" at the end of each chapter. Then having
the fully worked solutions either directly after that, or all at the end of
the book.

at the moment i am preferring the idea of all the solutions at the end of
the book. what do people think? (this is how all university maths books are
structured, in order to avoid cluttering the more general main text.)

cheers,
Sam
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