Prize quizzes to reinforce concepts which students find difficult

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Anna Pratoussevitch uses quizzes with small prizes to reinforce concepts which students find difficult.

• In MATH349, she found that students had difficulties visualizing saddle surfaces. She asked students to find examples of saddle surfaces in the Mathematical Sciences building, and offered pringles as a prize.
• In MATH343, students found it difficult to understand that the order of the product of two group elements is not in general the product of their orders. She asked students to work out the order of a particular Rubik's cube move, and offered a small Rubik's cube keyring as a prize.