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Adding irrelevant humorous questions to a quiz exam
Awarded Jun 12, 2018 at 19:19
What is the point of teaching variance?
Awarded Jun 8, 2018 at 21:49
Optimization problems that today's students might actually encounter?
Awarded May 17, 2018 at 10:54
Why do students have problems with showing that something is well-defined? How can this be improved?
Awarded Apr 23, 2018 at 11:35
How to teach logical implication?
Awarded Apr 4, 2018 at 18:28
Should I be teaching point-slope formula to high school algebra students?
Awarded Mar 24, 2018 at 6:32
Questions with "round" answers only?
Awarded Mar 23, 2018 at 13:41
Historical tidbits to liven up calculus classes
Awarded Mar 14, 2018 at 3:17
Is 'estimating' still considered a valuable skill?
Awarded Mar 12, 2018 at 19:24
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Awarded Mar 8, 2018 at 16:00
Why do most of the books in mathematics not include answers?
Awarded Mar 8, 2018 at 1:01
What's a replacement for "married couples" in combinatorics problems?
Awarded Mar 8, 2018 at 0:11
What's a replacement for "married couples" in combinatorics problems?
Awarded Mar 6, 2018 at 19:32
What's a replacement for "married couples" in combinatorics problems?
Awarded Mar 5, 2018 at 17:02
What's a replacement for "married couples" in combinatorics problems?
Awarded Mar 5, 2018 at 15:05
What's a replacement for "married couples" in combinatorics problems?
Awarded Mar 4, 2018 at 19:42
Should college mathematics always be taught in such a way that real world applications are always included?
Awarded Feb 22, 2018 at 8:35
Why do no students know to change the limits of integration when doing substitutions?
Awarded Feb 12, 2018 at 17:56
What female mathematician can I introduce to my High School students?
Awarded Jan 16, 2018 at 21:49
How should a student's inefficient calculation be pointed out?
Awarded Jan 10, 2018 at 22:00
Grading a limit problem
Awarded Jan 1, 2018 at 1:31
Grading a limit problem
Awarded Dec 29, 2017 at 22:36
What is the proper verb for "doing" an integral?
Awarded Dec 29, 2017 at 3:29
What was the problem with New Math? Why did it end?
Awarded Dec 22, 2017 at 14:25
What do you say to students who want to apply Banach-Tarski theorem in practice?
Awarded Nov 8, 2017 at 1:28
What female mathematician can I introduce to my High School students?
Awarded Oct 31, 2017 at 17:44
Near-universal student mistake on $\lim_{x\rightarrow\infty}e^{x+1}/e^x$
Awarded Oct 27, 2017 at 0:39
What is a good reason to change calculus texts?
Awarded Oct 18, 2017 at 2:16
Why do we teach even and odd functions?
Awarded Sep 13, 2017 at 0:54
What is the proper way to ask a "find the domain" question?
Awarded Sep 11, 2017 at 18:45
Epsilons and deltas in a first calculus course
Awarded Aug 30, 2017 at 0:52
Should I change my take-home exam policy because of one suspected cheater?
Awarded Jul 29, 2017 at 19:54
Can mathematics be learned by ONLY solving problems?
Awarded Jun 20, 2017 at 9:26
What female mathematician can I introduce to my High School students?
Awarded Jun 17, 2017 at 1:54
"But I copied that from a book-reference you gave! How can that be wrong?", or how can you grade homework which is solved poorly in some book?
Awarded Jun 16, 2017 at 14:33
Why should kids learn how to use a compass and straightedge, and not rely on a drawing program?
Awarded Jun 14, 2017 at 14:36
Why do we conventionally treat trig functions as going anti-clockwise from the right?
Awarded May 28, 2017 at 15:34
What is the mathematical value of children learning and being tested on Roman numerals?
Awarded May 15, 2017 at 21:23
What is the mathematical value of children learning and being tested on Roman numerals?
Awarded May 15, 2017 at 10:27
What is the mathematical value of children learning and being tested on Roman numerals?
Awarded May 15, 2017 at 1:42
Dividing by zero
Awarded May 14, 2017 at 9:29
How should normal subgroups be introduced?
Awarded May 14, 2017 at 9:24
How to teach logical implication?
Awarded May 10, 2017 at 8:58
Formula sheets and books during tests and exams
Awarded May 7, 2017 at 9:06
Why are percentages part of the curriculum?
Awarded May 2, 2017 at 7:56
How to respond to “solve this equation” in a basic algebra class
Awarded Apr 8, 2017 at 4:59
What interesting properties of the Fibonacci sequence can I share when introducing sequences?
Awarded Mar 27, 2017 at 7:46
Should students be asked to use more than one notation for the derivative in an introductory calculus class?
Awarded Mar 16, 2017 at 10:29
Rationale for not dividing both sides of an equation by $x$ (ex: $6x^2 = 12x$)
Awarded Feb 22, 2017 at 23:38
Is it too late for me to start learning mathematics?
Awarded Feb 7, 2017 at 19:55
Is there any proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra that can be introduced to undergraduates who have just completed Calc III?
Awarded Jan 28, 2017 at 21:01
Why are induction proofs so challenging for students?
Awarded Jan 20, 2017 at 18:55
Is this homework problem on counting triangles within a 4x4 grid too vague?
Awarded Nov 29, 2016 at 10:28
How to solve the problem of Wolfram Alpha?
Awarded Nov 25, 2016 at 21:16
Whence the "everything is linear" phenomenon, and what can we do about it?
Awarded Sep 26, 2016 at 17:19
What methods successfully identify and eliminate severe math anxiety?
Awarded Aug 18, 2016 at 8:25
Is $a^0 = 1$ for a nonzero, real number $a$, a theorem or an axiom?
Awarded Aug 13, 2016 at 1:05
How can we help students learn how to read their textbook?
Awarded Jul 19, 2016 at 13:13
How to assign homework when answers are freely available or attainable online?
Awarded Jul 8, 2016 at 1:16
How to explain that a negative number multiplied by a negative number is a positive number, and that $-(-x)=x$?
Awarded May 31, 2016 at 17:28
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