The students could try to find a similar worked-example in the textbook and imitate those steps in solving the current problem.
Failing to recognize the dynamic process, students might be stuck with the macroscopic, static equilibrium example portrayed in the textbooks.
(VET teacher of building and construction) Learning from examples To cope with curriculum changes some teachers have relied on the examples given in the textbooks and have adapted these to their own situation.
For example, in the introductory biology textbook, Invitation to Biology (Curtis, 1972), flocking was described as an infectious behavior with a leader who worked the hardest.
"Historically, bird beaks have been the prime example of adaptation through natural selection, such as in the textbook example of Darwin's finches," lead author Dr. Alejandro Rico-Guevaresearchseassociatecinthein the department of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, said in a written statement.
This example can also be found in the textbook by Goodrich and Peterson - see [3], Example 3.135.
In the textbook example, if the law was "All swans are white" you could count white swans for centuries but still not know that all swans were white, not for sure.
The interviewed students clearly liked the focus of the course, and thought that the life sciences focused examples provided by the textbook, in lecture, and in the hands-on sessions helped to keep their interest.
Note on Prior Publication: The model and kinetic analysis reported here was first published, in abbreviated form, as an example in a textbook [18].
In the textbook, the example problem of 312 ÷ 4 is introduced within the context of selling eggs (see Fig. 1; the original text is in Chinese and is translated by the first author), together with exercises on bare number problems and context problems.
