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Are there disadvantages to teaching complex numbers as purely geometrical objects?
Awarded Nov 28 at 22:48
Are there science-backed effective teaching strategies?
Awarded Oct 30 at 16:04
Tutoring elementary student who reverses left and right
Awarded Oct 30 at 16:04
The impact of dyslexia on learning mathematics, and available resources
Awarded Oct 30 at 16:04
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 Oct 30 at 16:04
How is teaching calculus in high school different from teaching calculus in college?
Awarded Oct 30 at 16:04
Counterintuitive consequences of standard definitions
Awarded Oct 30 at 16:04
How can I explain why we need proofs to someone who has no experience in mathematical thinking?
Awarded Oct 29 at 17:06
A Series of Unfortunate Examples!
Awarded Oct 29 at 17:06
Redundant zeros
Awarded Oct 29 at 17:06
What is the proper verb for "doing" an integral?
Awarded Oct 29 at 17:06
Ideas for high school pure maths projects
Awarded Oct 29 at 17:06
Why not think of derivatives as fractions?
Awarded Oct 24 at 15:26
Natural origins or learned habit: Why do students skip concepts before applications?
Awarded Oct 20 at 12:57
When is it appropriate to warn about the difficulty of a subject?
Awarded Oct 18 at 23:42
How to teach pure mathematics to a well-educated adult who did badly in maths at school
Awarded Sep 23 at 19:48
Why are there two inverses to exponentiation?
Awarded May 25 at 23:32
Is it harmful to use the word "Cancel"?
Awarded May 18 at 15:17
Lesson plan to self-teach real analysis to student with comp-sci background
Awarded Apr 29 at 13:10
How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
Awarded Mar 22 at 20:12
f(x+h) in the difference quotient
Awarded Feb 17 at 17:32
Why are we so careful in saying that dy/dx is not a fraction?
Awarded Feb 14 at 12:34
Is there a simple explanation for calculus classes of why partial fractions work?
Awarded Feb 3 at 13:55
When should we first teach variables in school math? And how?
Awarded Feb 2 at 18:09
‘Lies to children’ in mathematics and statistics education
Awarded Jan 29 at 13:06
Students confusing "object types" in introductory proofs class
Awarded Jan 5 at 19:50
Calculus problems arising from real research problems
Awarded Dec 28, 2022 at 15:16
"We already passed that course!" How to overcome this?
Awarded Dec 5, 2022 at 21:48
A Non-Unique Factorization of Integers!
Awarded Sep 21, 2022 at 3:16
What value is there in requiring students to answer word problems in complete sentences?
Awarded Sep 13, 2022 at 17:35
How can I validate the existence of percentages above 100?
Awarded Aug 8, 2022 at 0:19
What books are like Knuth's Surreal Numbers?
Awarded Aug 7, 2022 at 0:35
How to motivate equivalence classes
Awarded Jun 11, 2022 at 20:03
How can I convince someone to use a calculator and not worry about the mechanics too much?
Awarded Jun 6, 2022 at 14:03
Inability to work with an arbitrary mathematical object
Awarded Jan 15, 2022 at 4:17
What is the best way to intuitively explain the relationship between the derivative and the integral?
Awarded Jan 6, 2022 at 21:25
Student Poisoned Experience with Math
Awarded Jan 6, 2022 at 21:20
Breaking students from the habit of relying on examples
Awarded Dec 27, 2021 at 4:45
What are some good examples to motivate the implicit function theorem?
Awarded Dec 21, 2021 at 21:04
Combative students in proofs classes
Awarded Nov 10, 2021 at 17:07
Getting students to actually read definitions
Awarded Sep 11, 2021 at 19:57
Big list of "interesting" abstract vector spaces
Awarded Jun 18, 2021 at 14:18
Why would you teach Calculus before teaching Real Analysis?
Awarded Jun 17, 2021 at 14:11
What is a healthy and effective way for a math educator to evaluate his or her performance?
Awarded Jun 11, 2021 at 9:32
What is a good motivation/showcase for a student for the study of eigenvalues?
Awarded Jun 9, 2021 at 19:51
Response to Students Who Say "This Is Not Important"
Awarded Jun 7, 2021 at 21:11
Taxonomy of bad proofs
Awarded May 13, 2021 at 7:17
How to write like a mathematician?
Awarded Apr 19, 2021 at 7:57
How does a teacher come up with plausible wrong answers for multiple choice tests?
Awarded Apr 19, 2021 at 5:23
Which product of single digits do children usually get wrong?
Awarded Mar 6, 2021 at 1:46
Is there a virtue to learning how to compute by hand?
Awarded Mar 3, 2021 at 0:41
Can students tell the difference between the "definition if" and the "theorem if"?
Awarded Feb 24, 2021 at 1:25
Should figures be presented to scale?
Awarded Feb 19, 2021 at 1:27
Is there a Piagetian age at which proofs can be comprehended?
Awarded Feb 17, 2021 at 9:26
Why do we care about multiple proofs of the same theorem?
Awarded Feb 7, 2021 at 15:36
"Opinionated" textbooks
Awarded Feb 4, 2021 at 21:56
What is the current school of thought concerning accuracy of numeric conversions of measurements?
Awarded Jan 19, 2021 at 15:55
How to present $\Bbb Z/n\Bbb Z$ to highschool level audience
Awarded Jan 16, 2021 at 23:26
Should we "program" calculus students, like the physicists seem to want us to?
Awarded Jan 10, 2021 at 8:56
How can I give feedback that is not demotivating?
Awarded Dec 14, 2020 at 13:32
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