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Ideas for term papers in a graduate or advanced undergraduate class

In my graduate courses, I often have my students write term papers on original mathematical topics. I explain the process in this answer over at MathOverflow. It works fairly well for me. But I'd be ...
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What are some good final project prompts for a calculus class (where they have to write a "paper")?

This is very similar to a question I asked at MSE a while back ago but I think it is far more appropriate here. https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/632139/examples-of-open-ended-calculus-class-...
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Peer Review of Mathematical Essays

Background I find that the best way for my mathematical modeling class to understand the modeling process is by having the experience of modeling some real world situation of their group's choosing. ...
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