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Math Lab Location: B860 East Hall, 936-0160 The Math Lab provides tutorial help for students in all the introductory courses. It is staffed by graduate students and advanced undergraduates. As an instructor of one of the introductory courses, you will be asked to hold one of your weekly office hours in the Math Lab. Any student in your class who needs extra help should be strongly encouraged to see you during your own office hours, but the Math Lab with its convenient hours is a good alternative. If a team is having difficulty with a homework problem, please suggest that they go to the Math Lab together. When students have questions about the substance of the homework, we want the students to figure out as much as possible for themselves. Sometimes they need a hint, sometimes they need to reread the instructions or the relevant section of the book, sometimes they need to be given direct help, and sometimes they need to be told to go back and work on it. When a whole team comes in to get help, it is a good time to help them learn to work together and it may only take a few hints or steering-type questions to get the group unstuck. For the tutor (or the instructor) knowing how much and how little to say is an art that takes experience and restraint. |