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Impressive common misleading interpretations in statistics to make students aware of

Examples why university education is important for future high school teachers

How to react to students saying that they are allergic to applied mathematics?

What are the arguments for and against learning the multiplication table by heart?

Good definition for introducing real numbers?

What are argument one can give to students on the definition $0^0$?

Good motivation for the introduction of Lebesgue integral?

What was the problem with New Math? Why did it end?

Impressive examples where a “proof by picture” goes wrong

What arguments can I give a high school student why mathematics is important?

Non-answerable questions on exam: What to do?

What is a good motivation/showcase for a student for the study of eigenvalues?

Is it good to have solutions of homework published?

How to advise students who want to do a “Bourbaki”-style study?

Is $e^{i\pi}+1=0$ a good motivation for introducing $e$ or $i$? Why (not)?

Pressure vs. Laissez-faire: Literature dealing with balance in university-classes

Why do students have problems with showing that something is well-defined? How can this be improved?

What is fairly new theorem one can teach (and prove) to an undergraduate student?

“But I copied that from a book-reference you gave! How can that be wrong?”, or how can you grade homework which is solved poorly in some book?

How to deal with very motivated students having “off-topic” interests?

Amount of concrete calculations on board?

How to deal with answers containing completely off-topic/random/very wrong arguments?

How to choose/test future tutors?

Do private lessons really help?

Use of mathematical humor suitable for motivation/explaination?

It is good to have old exams (with solutions) published?

How to design a fair oral exam for >10 students?

How to keep track of your old exercises in a heavy proof based course?

Should one ask questions directly to specific students in a lecture or exercise group?

What are easy examples from daily life of constrained optimization?