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Alecos Papadopoulos
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22 votes

Impressive common misleading interpretations in statistics to make students aware of

15 votes

‘Lies to children’ in mathematics and statistics education

6 votes
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Item Analysis in Mathematics Exams

6 votes

Moving from discrete probability distributions to continuous ones

5 votes

How to explain the difference between the fraction a / b and the ratio a : b?

5 votes

How to get past the "mystique" of Maths

4 votes

Why do most Analysis textbooks overlook, and fail to teach delta-epsilon proofs, using the K-ε principle?

4 votes

Probability Misconception: Two Bags with Black and White Marbles

4 votes

Explaining how to study mathematics

4 votes

Should students get full credit for getting the correct answer (without work)?

4 votes

Average Rate of Change isn't/is Statistics

3 votes

Does it make sense to speak of whether the standard deviation is a "good measure" of some particular distribution?

3 votes

Intergration by differentiating will get you $0$ marks - but how to explain why?

3 votes

Is there research for or against such an approach in teaching calculus?

3 votes

Should I choose Cox-based Jaynes' approach or Kolmogorov approach to base myself on to teach probabilities to high-school students?

2 votes

Cautionary tales for Gaussians/the central limit theorem?

2 votes

Is there an advantage to teaching solution of simultaneous equations by setting equations equal to each other?

2 votes

Hypothesis Tests in Students' Lives

2 votes

Revisiting topics from previous courses

2 votes

"Greatest hits" of applications of freshman calculus to economics?

2 votes

is it possible to motivate square roots e.g. $\sqrt{2}$ in business math?

1 vote

Good metaphor to explain the difference between pointwise and uniform convergence

1 vote

Statistics, for the mathematically rigorous

1 vote

Application of Minimizing Average Cost

1 vote

How to explain what's wrong with this application of the chain rule?

0 votes

What is the point of teaching variance?

0 votes

Motivating the study of matrices

0 votes

Applications for logarithms in a business math course

0 votes

Real life examples to motivate the study of linear functions