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What can I do when advanced undergraduate and/or early graduate STEM students cannot perform correct math manipulations?

I have helped to TA and taught several courses with mixtures of advanced undergraduate and early graduate students in engineering/STEM. These courses are the classics: signal processing, control, ...
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Is the Wronskian still assumed for graduate education?

About thirty years ago, in a practice GRE (Graduate Record Exam) math test in the US, a question assumed the student knew the definition of the Wronskian. I had never heard of this determinant before. ...
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