PROCEEDINGS OF THE 19TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2016
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Enriching student’s online homework experience in pre-calculus courses: Hints and cognitive supports
Page: 1393
As part of reforming our Pre-Calculus courses, we realized that reforms to instruction needed to be accompanied by reforms to the homework. We utilized the online homework system WeBWorK but recognized our students wanted more support on missed questions. WebWorK “hints” provided us an avenue to ask students leading questions to prompt thinking over procedures. Preliminary data show many students are using these hints and the hints are working as intended. We plan to expand hints beyond our Pre-Calculus courses. The open source nature of WeBWorK provides an opportunity for hints to be implemented on a wide scale.