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What is a fair way of constructing exams with tiered levels of difficulty?
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Graphing functions from a finite field to itself
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What topics could be covered in a course on fractals?
Awarded May 30, 2016 at 2:19
In math courses with writing requirements, how should large papers be graded fairly?
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What to do when your students are all getting A's
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Which math classes should be included in an undergraduate computer science program?
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Why are university algebra courses often harder than the corresponding high school courses?
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What should you do if you lose your student's exam?
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How can you explain the importance of $e$ to those who have not taken calculus?
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What topic can I use in an Introduction to Proofs course that would introduce students to a wide variety of proof methods?
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How do I adapt a MWF class into a TuTh class?
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What prerequisites would college students need for a course based primarily on Euclid's elements?
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What is an efficient way of drawing surfaces in multivariable calculus?
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How can you determine the quality of your teaching, or someone else's?
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How can a research mathematician transition into a mathematics education researcher?
Awarded Mar 28, 2015 at 19:10
What basic algebra skills and techniques are most important for calculus students to know?
Awarded Mar 24, 2015 at 17:07
What are the major obstacles to crowdsourcing a competitive, free calculus text?
Awarded Mar 23, 2015 at 9:04
How to motivate equivalence classes
Awarded Sep 25, 2014 at 1:45
How to bring an undergraduate researcher up to speed on a brand new topic
Awarded Sep 3, 2014 at 18:49
Physics-based mathematical courses
Awarded Jul 27, 2014 at 2:57
According to Common Core standards, what math skills are beginning Kindergarteners supposed to have?
Awarded Jul 22, 2014 at 20:38
When did the American school system's progression of math classes take its current form?
Awarded Jun 1, 2014 at 1:33
How to build a class based on Project Euler?
Awarded May 6, 2014 at 3:26
What interesting properties of the Fibonacci sequence can I share when introducing sequences?
Awarded Apr 28, 2014 at 20:34
An application-heavy functional analysis textbook?
Awarded Apr 20, 2014 at 19:23
What should be included in a freshman 'Mathematics for computer programmers' course?
Awarded Apr 17, 2014 at 11:45
Is there any proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra that can be introduced to undergraduates who have just completed Calc III?
Awarded Apr 13, 2014 at 10:33
Is there any research on the correlation between a professor's research ability and their ability to teach graduate level courses?
Awarded Apr 11, 2014 at 4:53
How does the workload of a high-school mathematics teacher compare to a university-level instructor?
Awarded Apr 10, 2014 at 3:19
How do you go about writing your own lecture notes for a new course?
Awarded Apr 4, 2014 at 10:59
For calculus students, what should be the intuition or motivation behind series?
Awarded Apr 3, 2014 at 15:12
What examples of groups should students in abstract algebra learn to test ideas on?
Awarded Apr 3, 2014 at 12:13
How can creativity be incorporated into elementary school mathematics?
Awarded Apr 2, 2014 at 13:51
When asked to by a religious university, how can an instructor make a mathematics course spiritually uplifting?
Awarded Mar 31, 2014 at 20:29
How can I teach my students the difference between a sequence and a series?
Awarded Mar 28, 2014 at 8:57
How is teaching calculus in high school different from teaching calculus in college?
Awarded Mar 27, 2014 at 8:18
How can you explain to students that they should not use the same variable in an integrand and in the limits of integration simultaneously?
Awarded Mar 25, 2014 at 13:23
Why does high school teaching in the USA require a teaching certificate while college/university teaching does not?
Awarded Mar 25, 2014 at 4:09
To what extent is math research in the United States subsidized by calculus teaching?
Awarded Mar 22, 2014 at 17:54
Should students be asked to use more than one notation for the derivative in an introductory calculus class?
Awarded Mar 21, 2014 at 7:47
How should LaTeX be taught to university students?
Awarded Mar 19, 2014 at 14:36
What do you do when you realize mid-lecture that your lesson plan is not working?
Awarded Mar 19, 2014 at 14:11
How can I estimate the length of an exam?
Awarded Mar 14, 2014 at 22:33
What is a good handwriting font for mathematics?
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