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Resources for Students and Parents

In addition to your book, Khan academy, and the other iPad apps, these websites are wonderful resources providing simple explanations of difficult concepts and offering additional practice.

Brightstorm is a website that offers video explanations of many mathematical topics covered in junior high and high school. These videos consist of an overview of the topic and several practice problems.

This website offers a wide variety of educational videos organized by content area. This is a great way for students who have trouble with a lesson taught in class to have a math teacher explain it to them again.

This is another website which offers online math lessons through video instruction.

See Math offers animations that cover a variety of algebra topics.

Coolmath offers math lessons, math practice and math games in an interesting and child friendly setting. Pretty much anything math related can be found here.

This website offers help videos on a wide variety of topics. It also allows you to create your own worksheets for further practice.

This website offers help in the following trouble areas: whole number properties, integers, decimals, exponents, fractions, geometry, ratios and proportions, percents, the metric system, basic algebra, and statistics.

Math.com offers a wide variety of help topics including factoring, fractions, number properties, and geometry.They also provide practice problems and quizzes.

Webmath offers help for math topics at nearly all grade levels.

Another website offering video resources for struggling students

Specific Help Areas

The following is a glossary of commonly used mathematical vocabulary words which we use in equations involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

This website offers everything you need to know about order of operations.

Fractions are widely regarded as one of the most troublesome areas for math students. This is due to the difficulty to understand and visualize them. The following websites will assist with both of these issues. Another great fraction site is aaaknow.com.

The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives is a great tool for students to explore mathematical concepts. The virtual manipulatives are fun and cover a wide variety of mathematical topics.

Edhelper offers worksheets on a wide range of topics. It also has a simple program which allows you to create your own math help worksheets.

This website allows you to create your own extra practice worksheet on a variety of topics.

Math-drills.com is a great website if you are looking for fraction worksheets.

Lizardpoint.com is a good website for practicing the basic operations. This website allows you to create online and printable worksheets.

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Over the past two decades, a growing body of scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) has emerged. This empirical study of teaching methods, course design, and students' study practices has yielded invaluable information about how teachers teach and learners learn. Yet, university faculty members remain largely unaware of the findings of SoTL research. As a result, they tend to choose their teaching techniques and tools based on intuition and previous experience rather than on scientific evidence of effectiveness.

This book synthesizes SoTL findings to help teachers choose techniques and tools that maximize student learning. Evidence-based recommendations are provided regarding teacher–student rapport, online teaching, use of technology in the classroom (such as audience response systems, podcasting, blogs, and wikis), experiential learning (such as internships, teaching assistantships, research assistantships, and in-class research projects), students' study habits, and more.

In order to stimulate future SoTL research, the book also recommends numerous areas for future investigation. It concludes with advice for documenting teaching effectiveness for tenure review committees.

Both novice and experienced university teachers will find this book useful, as well as professionals who work in faculty development centers.

Contributors

Foreword
William Buskist

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Beth M. Schwartz and Regan A. R. Gurung

Benefits of Using SoTL in Picking and Choosing Pedagogy
Randolph A. Smith
Building Rapport in the Classroom and Student Outcomes
Janie H. Wilson, Shauna B. Wilson, and Angela M. Legg
Using Technology to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Christopher R. Poirier and Robert S. Feldman
Online Teaching
Chandra M. Mehrotra and Lawrence McGahey
Experiential Learning
Kristin M. Vespia, Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges, Ryan C. Martin, and Deirdre M. Radosevich
How Should Students Study?
Regan A. R. Gurung and Lee I. McCann
Selection of Textbooks or Readings for Your Course
R. Eric Landrum
Are You Really Above Average? Documenting Your Teaching Effectiveness
Jane S. Halonen, Dana S. Dunn, Maureen A. McCarthy, and Suzanne C. Baker

Index

About the Editors

Beth M. Schwartz, PhD, is currently Catherine Ehrman Thoresen '23 and William E. Thoresen Professor of Psychology and Assistant Dean of Randolph College. She received her PhD in cognitive psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1991. Her early work focused on factors that influence the accuracy of child witnesses, in particular how changes in the legal system can create a more age-appropriate interview for young children.

In addition to her continuing interests in psychology and law, she is also involved in a research program on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL). She has given over 100 professional presentations at conferences and published over 20 books, book chapters, and professional articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her work has appeared in journals such as Law and Human Behavior and the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

She has worked with more than 1,000 students at Randolph College. She was the founder of the Faculty Development Center, serving as faculty development coordinator from 2000 to 2007 on her campus, providing faculty with programming focused on refining one's teaching to become most effective in the classroom. With these programs, she has created an enviro