Ruth and Claire discuss prereqs and background content. Claire has success capitalizing on student enthusiasm in the first two weeks of class by bringing up content that will be used again and again. Claire is working on making a “homework zero” that covers relevant prereq material. Ruth goes through a math review early in the semester that serves students of varying confidence levels. Ruth wants to bring up specifics from previous class syllabi to remind students that they have, in fact, seen this content before.

Ruth mentioned Summit-P: https://www.summit-p.com/. Claire mentioned: Teach Better, Save Time, and Have More Fun: https://teachbettersavetime.wordpress.com/