|  Fephisto | Oct 2, 2007 7:56pm | Well, unfortunately, I don't have much say in changing the lectures about how this is all taught.
But otherwise I taught again today. I think it went a little better, I tried teaching by Socratic method by posing a rather difficult identity problem to them (so that way I had to go through all the identities in the process while trying to solve it), but this eventually frustrated them because we didn't end up solving it after half an hour. So, I switched to easier problems. |
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Sponsor |  Morosoph | Oct 3, 2007 7:12am | 10, disconcision: Just get (say) a group theory text. I did a quick book search, and this text comes across to me as the most readable.
You've easily got the intelligence; I expect that a "simplified" text would actually be harmful, or at least uninteresting to you. The incomplete explanations that you find in simplified books don't help proper mental development, IMO. |
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Sponsor | | Morosoph | Oct 3, 2007 12:42pm | disco: It's occurred to me that I'm probably speaking to the choir; you know plenty of maths by the look of it!
I've left the above post as the info might be useful to others... |
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