Let's Talk About Student Presentations

Abstract

This article offers our ideas on why it is important to teach our students how to speak about mathematics and some practical resources for incorporating speaking activities, helping students prepare, evaluating student presentations, and getting your department to talk about student presentations. The ideas in this article were compiled when the authors were members of the MAA Committee on the Teaching of Undergraduate Mathematics (CTUM) which sponsored a workshop on teaching mathematical speaking at the AMS-MAA Joint Mathematics Meetings in Phoenix in 2004.

Keywords:

• Oral presentation
• speaking assignment
• seminar