Math 561, Spring 1998
Critique of Modules
Consider these questions:
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What is the intended audience?
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Is this audience well-considered throughout the module?
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Is the information appropriate?
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Is the information given accessible to teachers? Students?
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Is the writing clear?
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What is the purpose of studying the material? (See also #14 and #15)
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How does it fit with the curriculum? (See also #8)
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Has the proper amount of original source material been selected?
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Is there appropriate historical content?
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Ambient social history
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Biography
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Mathematical content
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Notation, mathematical paradigms
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Balance of math vs. history
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Is the mathematical annotation appropriate? Too little? Too
much?
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How will it be used in the classroom?
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What actually happens in class?
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How will assignments work? (See also #9)
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Are there exercises, and are they appropriate?
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Appropriate difficulty level?
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Are they well chosen to demonstrate concepts?
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Is everything correct?
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Are the references adequate and useful?
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Is the reader enticed into further exploration? (See also #13)
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Will this motivate students?
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What will students learn?
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Will this help with something students have trouble with?
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