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This programme attempts to show how watching other people solving problems can help students learn.
This programme attempts to show how watching other people solving problems can help students learn.
| Module code and title: | M101, Mathematics: a foundation course |
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| Item code: | M101; 31; 1984 |
| Recording date: | 28-06-1983 |
| First transmission date: | 06-05-1984 |
| Published: | 1984 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:34 |
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| Producer: | John Jaworski |
| Contributors: | Brian De Castro; Tina Cross; Graham Jenkins; John Mason; Michael Payne; Sarah Macdonald |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Coin problem; Problem Solving |
| Footage description: | How can watching five other people doing mathematics help a lone student to learn mathematics? This programme attempts to provide that help. Five (real) Open University students were recorded in a television studio exploring a situation, defining a problem to solve and then solving it. Led by Dr. John Mason of the OU, who adds descriptive commentary as well as participating in the problem-solving, the students make many mistakes that will be familiar to any mathematician. They get stuck, and unstuck, and stuck again. They pursue profitless courses of action because they don't stop to ask what they want from the problem. The commentary, and the studio asides, refer to the themes of the associated text 'Learning and Doing Mathematics 1: in particular the cited Mathematics: particular importance of identifying what you know and what you want. For maximum benefit, viewers should have already tackled the problem seen in the programme: if one coin rolls without slipping around the perimeter of a fixed coin, how many times will the rolling coin have turned about its own centre when it returns to its starting position? |
| Master spool number: | HOU4529 |
| Production number: | FOUM196K |
| Videofinder number: | 4345 |
| Available to public: | no |
