Class discussions can serve several useful purposes. For which one of the following purposes is a class discussion least likely to be helpful?
a. To promote transfer of mathematical principles to real-world problems
b. To help students find new insights in classic works of fiction
c. To promote conceptual change in science
d. To facilitate the memorization of a poem
Question 2
Three of the following teaching strategies should help students benefit from a discovery-learning situation. Which strategy is least likely to be helpful?
a. Mr. Azama takes his students to the site of a Civil War battle and says, Okay, look around and see what you can find that might be of interest to your peers.
b. Ms. Berkowitz asks students to write down their discoveries about what happens to a chemical solution when they heat it.
c. Ms. Clift gives students several guidelines to follow as they conduct an experiment in their chemistry class.
d. Mr. DiCicco makes sure students have some knowledge about triangles, including the concepts of base and height, and then provides an exercise through which they discover for themselves the formula for calculating a triangle's area.
A tapeworm, Taenia pisiformis, a member of the class Cestoda.
A leech, a member of the class Hirudinea.
An elephant can use its trunk for a variety of purposes. This one is wiping its eye.
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