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### How to start tackling a 200 page big script? [closed]

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 ...
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### Are there any online question bank of mathematics questions?

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-...
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### Maxima and minima [closed]

Kindly ,try to make me understand this question. This is single choice question.
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### IMO selection process in Pakistan

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 ...
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### How to define “axes with the same scale” in Secondary/High School?

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. ...
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### Ideas for explaining 4D and higher dimensions

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 ...
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### How to motivate the function of normal distribution from the central limit theorem? [closed]

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 ...
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### What is the best way to intuitively explain the relationship between the derivative and the integral?

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? ...
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### Online testing platform

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 ...
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### The spatial thinking course for primary school - what to use?

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 ...
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### The Future of Worksheets - will they still be used or abandoned?

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 ...
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### Should teaching how to write a formal proof be a part of a standard mathematics education? [closed]

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 ...
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### How much does it cost to develop an online course?

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 ...
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### help thinking of conceptual or open-ended Intro Algebra and Intermediate Algebra test questions

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 ...
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### Tools for Mathematical presentation [duplicate]

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 ...
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### A Question about Theodore Frankel's “The Geometry of Physics”

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 ...
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### Math circles while under quarantine

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 ...
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### How to conduct online testing for Calculus?

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. ...
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### Topics for undergraduate seminar for mathematics educators

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 ...
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### Data on textbook adoptions in universities (math/science)

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) ...
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### Let P be a polygon

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 $P$ ...