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I am really not sure how to tackle a 200 page huge script with a lot of information about the topic linear algebra. Writing down the definitions would not make sense in my opinion, because if I want ...

I know Dr. Martin Greenhow and his team of Brunel University London have developed online questions and I have used some of these at the following url: http://maths-for-all.co.uk/engineering-...

Kindly ,try to make me understand this question. This is single choice question.

I have been searching for the International Math Olympiad(IMO) qualification process in Pakistan and I found out that students take the NMTC(National Mathematics Talent Contest) paper which to get ...

It's easy to recognize visually when an orthogonal coordinate system has its axes in the same scale. See, for instance, the following image. But I'm trying to write down a precise definition of it. ...

I introduced the hypercube (to undergraduate students in the U.S.) in the context of generalizations of the Platonic solids, explained its structure, showed it rotating. I mentioned Alicia Stott, who ...

I would like to motivate the functional form of the normal distribution by expressing it as the fixed point of an averaging operation. In effect, it is that density which results when any density is ...

This is my first post so bear with me, but something I've been thinking about lately is: Why didn't I ever question the relationship between the derivative and the integral when I was taking calculus? ...

What are good and free online testing platforms for mathematics? Is there any who can easily display math formulas? Any allowing LaTeX code? Apparently the only way to insert formulas in Google Forms ...

We're planning to run the project for first two grades of the elementary school kids, in which we want to facilitate the spatial thinking development along with the regular arithmetic course and make ...

I run a German website for mathematics education. We produce lessons, each of which contains various kinds of media, such as an introduction, videos, wikis, software, worksheets, and online tests. We ...

There is good reason for teaching how to write a formal proof as part of a standard mathematics education. Mathematicians think that the logic of the proofs they write is completely obvious, but our ...

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, and other local problems, we are seeing the need of developing most of our teaching online. Just "do a class like always" (but with no blackboard) via some network ...

Like many other math teachers, I am teaching remotely in Spring term. I teach Math 60 (Intro Algebra) and Math 95 (Intermediate Algebra) at a community college. In the age of math solving technology ...

I would like to teach math online I'm wondering what is the tools for mathematical presentation. For example, I tired Powerpoint with MathType but with no luck Beamer for mathematical presentation ...

Locked up in my self-distancing isolation in NYC, I'm reminded of how much I really like Frankel's book, which contains a wealth of beautiful geometry and topology from the standpoint of a ...

I suspect I'm not the only one here who finds himself with a dormant math circle due to quarantine. I'm interested in two kinds of suggestions regarding this situation: suggestions for running a ...

Due to COVID-19, I have been planning to transition to online teaching (which, of course, includes online testing as well). The LMS that we use is Blackboard which is integrated with Proctorio. ...

There are some general questions about potential topics for undergraduate seminars: topics for an undergraduate Math seminar Undergraduate Math Seminar topic I am looking for topics for a 15-hour ...

In Korea, basically every teaching material for 10th grade math(about the level of precalculus) contains this kind of exercises in their first treatment of complex numbers: Evaluate $f(x)=4x^4-8x^3+...

I think using the traditional compass with those styluses that can literally be used to hurt or accidentally hurt someone are very dangerous. Most people don't use these in day-to-day life anyways, ...

Imagine a math problem that consists in doing all sum operations you can in 2 minutes. And then imagine these are the correct operations each student has done (each list entry represents a different ...

This is similar to another question about teaching online, but I want to focus on something specific: what are the most popular setups for recording math video lectures? What's the easiest and best ...

(I've generalized the original question as @BrendanW.Sullivan suggests.) I would appreciate recommendations for a whiteboard app for a tablet using an e-pencil. For me: an iPad, using an Apple pencil....

Recently, I was watching this video and I began thinking about how much my arithmetic skills have declined in recent years due to over reliance of calculators in upper year (high school) math courses. ...

When taking a MOOC in calculus the exercises contain 5 options to select from. I then solve the question and select the option that matches my answer. Obviously only one of the options is correct. But ...

I'm looking for a good textbook introduction to probability/statistics that a first/second year undergrad math student could use! I'd like a book that emphasizes theory over procedure. I'd prefer an ...

Many universities, including mine, are now requiring we teach our courses online because corona. How shall we do this? Let’s brainstorm here. The challenges: My school provides limited online ...

Like a lot of people, my school is in the position of having to move their courses online. Does anyone know a good whiteboard app that allows simple latex entry? The closest I've been able to find is ...

Taylor series (or Maclaurin Series) are the only way to get values for some functions, such as $$\operatorname{erf}(x)=\frac{2}{\sqrt{\pi}}\int_0^x e^{t^2} dt = \frac{2}{\sqrt{\pi}}\sum_{n=0}^{\infty}...

I work as a private math tutor. I have a student, she is 10 years old. Her mother has asked me to provide assistance in preparation for the admission process to the eight-year high school. My ...

A man opened a shop with initial investment of $ \$ 40,000 $ ,in the first year ,he got a loss of $5\%$.however during the second year ,he earned a profit of $10\%$ and in third year $\displaystyle\...

I am currently teaching a course in "vector analysis", following Colley's book. So far we have reviewed multivariable calculus (a prereq for the course), and discussed: the derivative in general; ...

There is a tradition in the use of orthogonal projections to represent 3D objects in printed school math textbooks. On the other hand, perspective projections represent better the way as we "see" real ...

I read the question https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1593091/how-to-explain-why-study-prime-numbers-to-5th-graders and according to the body of the question, some students sigh. Also according ...

We're going to make a new math course for kids as intermediary between middle and high school with math profile (for preparation to entrance exams to high school), and before the main part (arithmetic,...

An important feature of mathematics is that it is relatively easy (compare to many other subjects) to know whether or not one's understanding is correct. There are plenty of ways to check: one can ...

In one textbook I use for College Algebra, the author teaches that one should interchange $x$ and $y$ when looking for inverse functions. For example, the inverse function of $$y=2x+2$$ is $$y=0.5x-1.$...

Does anybody know if there is a website/database/... on textbooks adoption in the US or some other country? (math/science textbooks) It would be interesting to see which textbooks are (and have been) ...

What difficulties can be met while teaching the "less than yearly compounded interest" concept? Based on my own (learning) experience, an objection arose when I was presented with the formula: $$A ...

I’m currently interested in textbooks, especially the ones in math and physics that are used at the high school, undergraduate and graduate levels and, given the experience of the people on this ...

If you draw the altitude to the right triangle as shown, it is easily seen that $$\triangle KLM\sim\triangle KNL\sim\triangle LNM.$$ This in turn leads to several interesting proportional relations ...

Over the past years teaching freshmen calculus I've repeatedly seen students make the following type of error: Suppose they have to express some quantity $y$ as function of $x$, when the relation ...

One of my high school students who has ZERO knowledge on complex numbers and the modulus function has showed me the following algebra: $$(16)^{\frac{1}{2}}=(16)^{\frac{2}{4}}=((16)^2)^{\frac{1}{4}}=...

I've encountered the following misunderstanding. I pose a question (to undergraduates in the U.S.), for example: Let $P$ be a polygon of $n$ vertices. Is it true that every triangulation of $P$ ...

In this short question, I would like to ask whether it is possibly good to teach quantifier before logical connectives in a logic introduction lecture? I know there is a relationship between them but ...

While teaching Function Transformations, I found the verbal descriptions of stretch and squeeze really confusing. So for $y = f(x)$, $y = 2f(x)$ is said to stretch $f(x)$ vertically by a factor of $...

i hope i can get some help on how to get better at high school maths i find them very difficult compared to middle school. Whats the big difference so i can work on it ?

In trying to find lecture-length videos of epsilon-delta proofs, I've found that almost all of them just start with the definition and then work through the algebra to get the answer. In effect, it ...

Could we say it has one when substituting the $x$ value into the original equation? Obviously, to solve the trascendental equation one has to operate the two terms with logarithms, reducing the ...