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- 20:46, 8 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+407) . . N Natural proof (Created page with "In the context of mathematics education, a '''natural proof''' is a proof that contains no ad hoc constructions, instead being a series of obvious steps that leaves one thinki...") (current)
- 20:43, 8 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+37) . . N Exposition problem (Redirected page to Open exposition problem) (current)
- 20:42, 8 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+284) . . N Open exposition problem (Created page with "'''Open exposition problem''' is a term introduced in contrast to an open research problem. In an open exposition problem, the problem is not to discover or invent a new thing...")
- 20:31, 8 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+190) . . N Category:People (Created page with "This category is for pages about people who have some relation to learning and teaching. For example, people who are educators, psychologists who study education, and exposito...") (current)
- 20:30, 8 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+937) . . N Timothy Gowers (Created page with "'''Timothy Gowers''' (also known as '''Tim Gowers''' or '''W.T. Gowers''') is a mathematician who has thought extensively about how to think about and teach mathematics. Some...")
- 19:59, 8 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+259) . . N Tristan Needham (Created page with "'''Tristan Needham''' is a mathematician and the author of ''Visual Complex Analysis''. ==List of recommendations of ''Visual Complex Analysis''== * https://christopherolah....")
- 19:51, 8 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,001) . . N John Stillwell (Created page with "'''John Stillwell''' is a mathematician who has written several books on the history of mathematics and how different fields of mathematics interact. From the preface of ''Ma...")
- 22:13, 7 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+747) . . N String replacements of code words (Created page with "Occasionally when learning through a book, there are certain "code words" where one should perform a string replacement of the "code word" with some different phrase or list o...")
- 21:56, 7 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+887) . . N Remembering mathematics (Created page with "==Notes== From Tao's ''Analysis I'': <blockquote>The subject matter [real analysis] is too vast to force the students to memorize the definitions and theorems, so I would no...")
- 21:44, 7 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,307) . . N Memorization in mathematics (Created page with "Broadly speaking, there seem to be two "schools of thought" regarding memorization in mathematics, as well as a third "default position": {| class="sortable table" |- ! Name...")
- 21:20, 7 January 2019 (diff | hist) . . (+1,117) . . N Mathematics as isolation of logical difficulties of learning (Created page with "Mathematics (especially pure mathematics at the non-research level) provides a kind of "lab environment" for analyzing the logical difficulties that arise during learning. Man...")
- 22:06, 24 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+138) . . N Category:Mathematics (Created page with "This category is for pages related to learning mathematics, including psychology of mathematics and metacognition while doing mathematics.") (current)
- 21:16, 24 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+4,404) . . N Understanding mathematical definitions (init from https://machinelearning.subwiki.org/wiki/User:IssaRice/Understanding_definitions)
- 00:56, 17 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+382) . . N Benjamin Franklin writing technique (Created page with "http://www.gutenberg.org/files/148/148-h/148-h.htm start at "Three or four letters of a side had passed, when my father happened to find my papers and read them." for a summa...")
- 02:33, 14 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+318) . . N Just-in-time learning (Created page with ""Two Studies of Opportunistic Programming: Interleaving Web Foraging, Learning, and Writing Code" Joel Brandt; Philip J. Guo; Joel Lewenstein; Mira Dontcheva; Scott R. Klemmer...")
- 02:14, 14 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+315) . . N Learning versus performance (Created page with "this seems like a standard term https://www.google.com/search?q=%22learning%20versus%20performance%22 http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/courses/cogscilearning/bjork...")
- 22:19, 6 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+61) . . N Incubation-based studying (Created page with " ==External links== * wikipedia:Incubation (psychology)")
- 22:17, 6 December 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+321) . . N Practice doing the real thing (Created page with "The same underlying motivation is used to justify several things and may be summed up as "practice doing the real thing": * If you're trying to hire someone, evaluate their s...") (current)
- 20:17, 11 November 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+755) . . N Explainer-side versus learner-side optimization (Created page with "Consider two kinds of meaning of the phrase "optimizing learning": * You are an explainer and you want to construct some sort of idealized box, such that if you shove in...")
- 20:02, 11 November 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+614) . . N Errorless learning (Created page with ""Proponents of errorless learning (e.g., Guthrie, 1952; Skinner, 1958; Terrace, 1963) suggest that failing to answer a question or answering incorrectly makes future errors mo...")
- 19:56, 11 November 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+881) . . N Pretesting effect (Created page with "The '''pretesting effect''' is a phenomenon where even failing to produce the correct answer or testing before learning a material improves test scores relative to regular stu...")
- 02:24, 7 November 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+243) . . N Eliezer Yudkowsky (Created page with "Some learning-related concepts that have been invented/discussed by '''Eliezer Yudkowsky''': * Guessing the teacher's password * Meditation * Aim low in explanati...")
- 02:07, 7 November 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+617) . . N List of terms related to generation (Created page with "{| class="sortable wikitable" ! Term !! Description !! Antonym |- | Generation || The act of the learner generating an answer themselves rather than reading an answer. Thi...")
- 23:38, 5 November 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+450) . . N List of illusions of understanding (Created page with "{| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! Name !! Description !! Whom does this illusion afflict? !! Example |- | Illusion of transparency || || Explainer || |- | Double il...")
- 23:07, 5 November 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+317) . . N Feynman technique (Created page with "The '''Feynman technique''' is a learning technique designed to deeply understand a topic. ==History== TODO: add relevant Feynman quotes/anecdotes here. The technique (...")
- 23:19, 4 November 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+822) . . N Summary table of methods of recall (Created page with "{| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! Method name !! Description !! Example |- | Passive recall || || |- | Active recall (quiz and recall) || || |- | Cloze deletion || || |- | Ac...")
- 23:39, 2 November 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+518) . . N Concept dependency tracking (Created page with "'''Concept dependency tracking''' (there might be a more standard term) refers to the tracking of conceptual dependencies (e.g. using a dependency DAG) when learning a subject...")
- 01:00, 25 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+333) . . N Importance of struggling in learning (Created page with "One axis along which explainers seem to differ is their degree of belief in the '''importance of struggling in learning'''. Roughly speaking, the "two sides" are: * "Don'...")
- 00:51, 25 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+376) . . N Mark Eichenlaub (Created page with "'''Mark Eichenlaub''' does some interesting stuff in explaining physics. * https://www.quora.com/Do-grad-school-students-remember-everything-they-were-taught-in-college-all-t...") (current)
- 00:49, 25 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+288) . . N Kinds of math books (Created page with "{| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! Kind !! Description !! Examples |- | Definition, theorem, proof || || |- | Guided discovery, guided self-study || || |- | Problems book || |...")
- 22:12, 12 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+724) . . N Scope for improvement (Created page with "(There might already be a standard term for this that I don't know about.) By '''scope for improvement''' of a skill or learning technique, I mean something like the differen...")
- 22:22, 8 October 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+350) . . N User:Issa Rice/My working model of page types (Created page with "What do I mean by a working model? Setting the context: * If a subject wiki was a SQL database, what would be the tables and what would be columns in each table? * If a subje...")
- 21:42, 20 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,242) . . N Incremental reading (Created page with "'''Incremental reading''' is a technique for reading articles and learning/retaining information. Incremental reading seems to combine several techniques into a package: * I...")
- 21:22, 20 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+293) . . N User:Issa Rice (Created page with "I am [https://issarice.com Issa Rice]. All my contributions to this wiki are released to the public domain according to the [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0...")
- 21:18, 20 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+447) . . N Self-explanation (Created page with "'''Self-explanation''' is a learning technique where the learner explains the steps they take in solving a problem or their processing of new information to themselves...")
- 20:31, 20 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+541) . . N List of learning measures (Created page with "This page is a list of learning measures (i.e. measures/metrics for testing what was learned). {| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! Measure name !! Type !! Notes |- | Cued re...")
- 00:50, 13 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+48) . . N Interleaving (Created page with "https://academicaffairs.arizona.edu/Interleaving")
- 00:25, 13 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+269) . . N Subtle point (Created page with "Vipul distinguishes between the following: * subtle points that are usually made when introducing a topic * subtle points that "may be considered pointless both by beginners...") (current)
- 22:40, 12 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+854) . . N Learning from multiple sources (Created page with "'''Learning from multiple sources''' refers to using multiple source materials while learning a subject. For instance, a student may attend lecture and later watch a YouTube v...")
- 22:17, 12 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+555) . . N List of learning techniques (Created page with "{| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! Technique !! Goal !! |- | Board technique || |- | Breaking the plane || |- | Classroom speech technique || |- | Cold calling...")
- 21:47, 12 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+1,188) . . N Discursiveness (explanations) (Created page with "In the context of explanations, '''discursiveness''' refers to the extent to which an explanation references subjects outside the main topic at hand. This terminology is nonst...")
- 02:04, 11 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+281) . . N List of learning strategies (Created page with "a.k.a. "X-based learning" for multiple values of X. {| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! Strategy !! Description !! Context in which strategy is applicable !! Pros !! Cons |- |...")
- 23:55, 10 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+328) . . N Learner (Created page with "On this wiki, a '''learner''' is a generalization of a student that includes the following (among others): * the reader of a blog post, wiki page, or textbook * students who...") (current)
- 23:23, 10 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+269) . . N Explainer (Created page with "On this wiki, an '''explainer''' is a generalization of a teacher that includes the following (among others): * the author of a blog post, wiki page, or textbook * a student...")
- 23:12, 10 September 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+503) . . N Number of explainers and learners (Created page with "{| class="sortable wikitable" |- ! Number of explainers !! Number of learners !! Relation !! Examples |- | one || many || || classroom learning |- | many || many || || classro...")
- 23:00, 4 August 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+557) . . N Cognitive load when learning mathematics (Created page with "This page lists some math-specific stuff relating to cognitive load. Some things that increase strain on working memory: * If a proof has steps <math>P_1, P_2, P_3, \ldots,...")
- 22:31, 4 August 2018 (diff | hist) . . (+168) . . N Techniques for reducing cognitive load (Created page with "This pages lists learning techniques for reducing cognitive load. * Worked-example effect * Spaced repetition (kind of, especially when used in a specific way)")
