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For questions about teaching students at the undergraduate (university) level.

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Undergraduate-level abstract algebra books or courses that don't start with groups or rings

When I was an undergrad studying abstract algebra, we used the second edition of Artin and covered groups first and then rings. Fields, vector spaces, and algebras came later, I think. I remember find …
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Why do we still teach the determinant formula for cross product? And is it as bad as I think...

In my opinion $2 \times 2$ matrices, particularly $2 \times 2$ real matrices are fairly easy to understand as mathematical objects, even to folks who haven't been exposed to linear algebra. $2 \times …
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