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Does a proof by induction have to explicitly refer to the principle of mathematical induction?
Awarded Nov 27 at 3:21
What number is the sum of two roots
Awarded Nov 13 at 15:55
Impressive common misleading interpretations in statistics to make students aware of
Awarded Nov 10 at 8:28
Role of human math teachers in the century of AI learning tools
Awarded Oct 29 at 12:43
What are some common errors and misconceptions about the Pythagorean Theorem?
Awarded Oct 26 at 13:36
Natural origins or learned habit: Why do students skip concepts before applications?
Awarded Oct 20 at 11:07
Natural origins or learned habit: Why do students skip concepts before applications?
Awarded Oct 19 at 14:21
When is it appropriate to warn about the difficulty of a subject?
Awarded Oct 18 at 21:32
To 17 year olds, how can I explain that two numbers with arbitrarily small difference are equal?
Awarded Oct 18 at 13:11
Why not think of derivatives as fractions?
Awarded Oct 13 at 1:16
"Real life" examples of limits of functions at finite points
Awarded Oct 12 at 13:57
Students can't seem to grasp the intent of tangent lines and getting general trends of derivatives from graphs
Awarded Oct 9 at 14:15
Should an undergraduate math program contain a course on Lebesgue integration?
Awarded Sep 16 at 18:43
Explaining Sigma-Notation
Awarded Sep 13 at 20:55
How to properly define volume for beginner calculus students?
Awarded Sep 1 at 21:41
Why are $m$ and $b$ used in the slope-intercept equation of a line?
Awarded Aug 31 at 16:16
Correcting how a student writes symbols
Awarded Aug 29 at 18:41
Why are there two inverses to exponentiation?
Awarded May 25 at 9:06
Why are there two inverses to exponentiation?
Awarded May 23 at 22:05
Concrete vectors spaces without an obvious basis or many "obvious" bases?
Awarded May 18 at 16:55
Is it harmful to use the word "Cancel"?
Awarded May 18 at 15:51
Is it harmful to use the word "Cancel"?
Awarded May 17 at 16:32
Can it be defended that $\sqrt 4$ is both $2$ and $-2$ (and likewise for general square roots)?
Awarded May 15 at 15:47
Adding irrelevant humorous questions to a quiz exam
Awarded Apr 27 at 7:41
Why don’t we teach a topological view of continuity instead of epsilon-delta?
Awarded Apr 26 at 19:55
Is there a virtue to learning how to compute by hand?
Awarded Apr 21 at 18:48
Is there a virtue to learning how to compute by hand?
Awarded Apr 21 at 11:56
How to teach someone that $-3>-4$?
Awarded Apr 11 at 20:26
Parentheses around negative numbers
Awarded Mar 29 at 23:35
What is the rationale for distinguishing between proper and improper fractions?
Awarded Mar 27 at 5:26
How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
Awarded Mar 23 at 23:01
How to give exercises when students can use ChatGPT
Awarded Mar 22 at 15:34
Why do we write $x$ instead of $1x$?
Awarded Mar 19 at 2:45
When writing log, do you indicate the base, even when 10?
Awarded Mar 18 at 5:10
How can I estimate the length of an exam?
Awarded Mar 17 at 11:10
Reasons for (not) distinguishing $f$ from $f(x)$
Awarded Mar 17 at 11:10
Is there a fair way to increase the grade of students who did not do well in exams?
Awarded Mar 10 at 13:56
How do/should administrators estimate the cost of producing an online introductory mathematics class?
Awarded Mar 7 at 16:47
f(x+h) in the difference quotient
Awarded Feb 16 at 21:10
What is the justification to teach the (redundant) use of parentheses in multiplications?
Awarded Feb 6 at 9:52
Is there a canonical name for a polynomial-like expression allowing for negative powers?
Awarded Feb 4 at 14:52
‘Lies to children’ in mathematics and statistics education
Awarded Jan 29 at 17:27
‘Lies to children’ in mathematics and statistics education
Awarded Jan 28 at 1:06
What can (and should) an educator do about ambiguous terms like "triangle", "square", etc?
Awarded Jan 24 at 17:15
Is patching up a student's poor solution better than providing a good solution?
Awarded Jan 14 at 19:42
Students confusing "object types" in introductory proofs class
Awarded Jan 3 at 16:31
When did math start to be a hated subject in schools and universities?
Awarded Dec 5, 2022 at 22:57
Why don't all teachers use clickers?
Awarded Nov 16, 2022 at 22:28
What do you do in order to drag out lectures?
Awarded Nov 15, 2022 at 10:25
Should we avoid indefinite integrals?
Awarded Nov 6, 2022 at 6:57
Why is a Calculus III student more likely to solve this problem?
Awarded Oct 19, 2022 at 16:26
What female mathematician can I introduce to my High School students?
Awarded Oct 18, 2022 at 20:02
Why is a Calculus III student more likely to solve this problem?
Awarded Oct 18, 2022 at 10:57
Why does math need to be practiced and exercised, when L1 Linguistic Competence is subconscious?
Awarded Oct 3, 2022 at 17:52
What are some research-level opportunities in mathematics that do not focus on proofs?
Awarded Sep 17, 2022 at 2:25
What value is there in requiring students to answer word problems in complete sentences?
Awarded Sep 13, 2022 at 1:57
What value is there in requiring students to answer word problems in complete sentences?
Awarded Sep 12, 2022 at 19:46
Don't these word problems seem designed to be confusing?
Awarded Sep 11, 2022 at 17:06
What are some rationales to teach Computer Science students Sequences and Series?
Awarded Aug 22, 2022 at 11:05
Impressive common misleading interpretations in statistics to make students aware of
Awarded Aug 8, 2022 at 13:25
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