RE: [Fhsst-authors] Maths Examples, again

[Clare Johnson]

hi Sam

I agree that you have to have some examples in the text to explain things,
and these can be carefully constructed or chosen so as to have maximum
usefulness.

so this sounds ideal to me!

Clare 



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Sent: 01 September 2004 19:41
To: FHSST Authors
Subject: [Fhsst-authors] Maths Examples, again

hello everybody,

i think i have solved the examples problem for maths. i don't want to
clutter the main text with lots of worked examples... but examples are
absolutely necessary for some explanations.

so what i propose is that the examples are done like this:

 - "examples" in the main text which are examples plain and simple. they
show how something is an example of that section's generalisation and do a
few calculations. these serve only to show how things work, not how to
answer exam questions. they should just flow as if they really are part of
the main text, but i might make an environment which is slightly shaded and
smaller text.

 - "worked examples" at the end of each section/chapter, which pose a
problem and guide the student through the solution in detailed steps, like
in physics. these are a lot bulkier than the "examples" and they are also
more aimed at helping out for exam preparation.

 - "exercises" at the end of each section/chapter, with solutions at the end
of the book.

what do people think?

if this works out, ill see about working an implementation into the
structure. at the moment i am still pulling all the material we have into
the syllabus structure. and all worked examples are going into a file named
"maths/examples.tex" until that (and this) gets worked out.

cheers,
Sam
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