Teaching and learning tricky topics
2.1 Identify your tricky topics
In the next activity, you will review the threshold concepts you have found in the literature and assess whether these concepts would be useful tricky topics.
Activity 4 Identify your tricky topics
Allow approximately 10 minutes
Refer back to your list of difficult concepts from Activity 2. If you saved your responses in Activity 2, they will appear in Table 4 below. State in the last column whether you think it is a tricky topic.
Table 4 Difficult concepts revisited
| Your subject: | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Concepts you have identified as difficult | Threshold concept criteria | Tricky topic? | |
| 1 | |||
| 2 | |||
| 3 | |||
| 4 |
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