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How can I estimate the length of an exam?
Awarded Sep 6, 2020 at 12:58
Future educators writing nonsense questions
Awarded Sep 4, 2020 at 11:52
How can teachers warn students about common mistakes without causing the student to make the mistake?
Awarded Aug 5, 2020 at 13:04
How rigorous should high school calculus be?
Awarded May 11, 2020 at 16:44
Interesting things you learned while grading?
Awarded May 9, 2020 at 3:57
Should LaTeX be taught in high school?
Awarded May 8, 2020 at 14:48
(How) Do American undergraduate math programs teach complex numbers?
Awarded May 6, 2020 at 6:13
Should word problems be reasonable?
Awarded Apr 27, 2020 at 19:25
What is the best way to intuitively explain the relationship between the derivative and the integral?
Awarded Apr 4, 2020 at 14:20
How does a teacher come up with plausible wrong answers for multiple choice tests?
Awarded Mar 16, 2020 at 10:30
How to help new students accept function notation
Awarded Feb 24, 2020 at 19:00
Why is learning mathematics compulsory?
Awarded Feb 19, 2020 at 12:35
Quote to show students don't have to fear making mistakes
Awarded Feb 19, 2020 at 5:45
How do I show students the Beauty of Mathematics?
Awarded Feb 17, 2020 at 16:40
How do I show students the Beauty of Mathematics?
Awarded Feb 17, 2020 at 10:45
Why is learning mathematics compulsory?
Awarded Feb 17, 2020 at 4:40
What deficiencies are present in Precalculus curricula that causes so many students to fail Calculus I?
Awarded Feb 9, 2020 at 23:50
Looking for simple "interesting" math problems that cannot be easily solved without algebra
Awarded Jan 22, 2020 at 0:15
When should a kid have memorized the multiplication table?
Awarded Jan 21, 2020 at 4:25
Good, simple examples of induction?
Awarded Jan 15, 2020 at 21:55
Good, simple examples of induction?
Awarded Jan 15, 2020 at 21:55
Should we stop differentiating between ln and log?
Awarded Dec 18, 2019 at 1:40
Is this primarily a "rote computational trick" for multiplication by 9?
Awarded Dec 16, 2019 at 17:30
What mathematics activities get students physically moving?
Awarded Nov 25, 2019 at 15:15
Beautiful planar geometry theorems not encountered in high school
Awarded Nov 21, 2019 at 0:40
How to explain what's wrong with this application of the chain rule?
Awarded Nov 14, 2019 at 1:50
Why is it possible to teach real numbers before even rigorously defining them?
Awarded Nov 4, 2019 at 7:30
How to respond to “solve this equation” in a basic algebra class
Awarded Nov 4, 2019 at 4:25
Why is it possible to teach real numbers before even rigorously defining them?
Awarded Nov 3, 2019 at 18:30
Explaining why (or whether) zero and one are prime, composite or neither to younger children
Awarded Oct 28, 2019 at 19:20
Explaining why (or whether) zero and one are prime, composite or neither to younger children
Awarded Oct 28, 2019 at 8:40
Examples of Innumeracy
Awarded Oct 4, 2019 at 18:55
How important is knowledge of trig identities for use in Calculus
Awarded Sep 25, 2019 at 19:20
How to explain Monty Hall problem when they just don't get it
Awarded Aug 28, 2019 at 4:45
What female mathematician can I introduce to my High School students?
Awarded Jul 29, 2019 at 9:15
Is there a simple example that empirical evidence is misleading?
Awarded May 23, 2019 at 15:15
What to do with students who think they "already know it," but actually don't?
Awarded May 17, 2019 at 14:10
Unique candidate that fails
Awarded Mar 18, 2019 at 18:10
What happened to the Moore method?
Awarded Mar 16, 2019 at 13:50
What female mathematician can I introduce to my High School students?
Awarded Mar 7, 2019 at 13:30
The concept of infinity for a 5 year old
Awarded Feb 19, 2019 at 6:35
The concept of infinity for a 5 year old
Awarded Feb 13, 2019 at 23:45
How to deal with a "protest" assignment?
Awarded Feb 9, 2019 at 17:35
Students understand during course but can't solve exam
Awarded Jan 30, 2019 at 23:00
What is the mathematical value of children learning and being tested on Roman numerals?
Awarded Jan 21, 2019 at 11:25
How can I familiarize elementary school students with infinities larger than $\aleph_0$?
Awarded Jan 15, 2019 at 18:40
What is the mathematical value of children learning and being tested on Roman numerals?
Awarded Jan 6, 2019 at 19:05
Formula sheets and books during tests and exams
Awarded Dec 31, 2018 at 13:50
Difference between high school and college calculus courses
Awarded Nov 14, 2018 at 4:30
Encouraging class participation
Awarded Nov 10, 2018 at 19:35
Why do inequalities flip signs?
Awarded Nov 9, 2018 at 4:25
Misuse of parentheses for multiplication
Awarded Oct 30, 2018 at 17:40
Good motivation for the introduction of Lebesgue integral?
Awarded Oct 7, 2018 at 21:30
Why are induction proofs so challenging for students?
Awarded Oct 5, 2018 at 15:25
Why are calculators not allowed in post-secondary exams?
Awarded Aug 30, 2018 at 13:30
Why do we teach complex numbers?
Awarded Aug 27, 2018 at 2:00
How to get past the "mystique" of Maths
Awarded Jun 24, 2018 at 15:51
In what curricula are "rectangles" defined so as to exclude squares?
Awarded Jun 24, 2018 at 1:08
Real-world examples of more "obscure" geometric figures
Awarded Jun 20, 2018 at 6:40
Adding irrelevant humorous questions to a quiz exam
Awarded Jun 13, 2018 at 12:54
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