Do you give prizes if
the students catch mistakes in written language?
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From that point on,
students took it as a friendly challenge to
catch the math teacher making another math
mistake.»
Even Teachers Make
Mistakes «Last year, when a
student caught me in a careless math
mistake, I laughed it off and said, «This is the first math
mistake I've ever made!»
That all changed this year when the first
student who
caught me in a
mistake asked in fun, «Do I get a prize for that?»
While our general participation policy is to raise a hand and wait to be called on,
students may call out if they
catch a
mistake.
In the hubbub when it seems that nearly the whole class has noticed a silly
mistake of mine, I usually don't have a clue who
caught me first, but the
students nearly always agree on which one or two
students spoke up first.
When a
student catches the teacher in a
mistake, it is a moment of friendly celebration for the whole class.
What happens if your
students catch a substitute teacher making a
mistake?
Even Teachers Make
Mistakes Last year, when a
student caught me in a math
mistake, I said, «This is the first one I've ever made!»
What kinds of
mistakes have your
students caught?
In my classes I award
students a tasty piece of dark chocolate every time they
catch me make a
mistake at the board (which I do regularly in every lecture as I lecture cold, without notes, and just do the derivations and examples as I go.
Occasionally a
student will
catch me make a spelling
mistake or other irrelevant error.
In telling
students this, I think I inevitably left the (
mistaken) impression, by inference, that one did not need to worry about noting up Supreme Court of Canada cases after 1949 for judicial history (i.e., to see if the case was reversed on appeal)(but I am consistent in telling
students that one should always noteup all Supreme Court of Canada decisions from any period of time for judicial and academic commentary and to find «like» cases, which would have, in the situation that follows, have
caught the
mistake in any event).