While I was in grad school, I had to teach some math-heavy engineering courses. This lesson came through very clearly there, and learning it early made my teaching much more effective.
You can't tell students anything, you have to show them, and you have to know where to start when you show them. Sometimes this meant starting back in the prerequisites to the course (a brief refresher on ODEs) and sometimes it meant arguing by anology before returning to the topic at hand.
You can't tell students anything, you have to show them, and you have to know where to start when you show them. Sometimes this meant starting back in the prerequisites to the course (a brief refresher on ODEs) and sometimes it meant arguing by anology before returning to the topic at hand.