User Brian Rushton - Mathematics Educators Stack Exchange

Brian Rushton

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What female mathematician can I introduce to my High School students?

answered Apr 20, 2014 at 22:51

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What do mathematicians call a proof?

answered Mar 19, 2014 at 1:27

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What is a good physical example of Stokes' Theorem?

answered Mar 17, 2014 at 18:29

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Revisiting topics from previous courses

answered Mar 17, 2014 at 19:00

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Students using l'Hôpital's Rule on the terms of a series, instead of the Limit Comparison Test

answered Apr 20, 2014 at 19:30

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Optimization problems that today's students might actually encounter?

answered Apr 11, 2014 at 16:58

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A Lexicon of Math Mistakes

answered Apr 13, 2014 at 17:56

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Should Eisenstein’s criterion be taught in high-school?

answered Mar 30, 2014 at 13:51

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Are teaching about finding the missing member(s) of the sequences really appropriate?

answered Mar 16, 2014 at 23:11

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Best textbooks to introduce measure theory and Lebesgue integration?

answered Mar 16, 2014 at 2:14

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What are some great books for exploring mathematics? (not kids' books and not textbooks)

answered Mar 16, 2014 at 23:36

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Introducing bounds

answered Apr 15, 2014 at 18:16

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Any tips in explaining the central limit theorem in statistics?

answered Mar 16, 2014 at 2:23

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

answered Mar 23, 2014 at 15:36

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Teaching somebody else's class

answered Mar 19, 2014 at 3:23

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What different ways do people use to show students that $\mathbb{R}$ is uncountable?

answered Mar 17, 2014 at 3:00

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Why are most math textbooks so uninspiring; unless you already like Math?

answered May 4, 2014 at 17:45

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How do I Create Geometric Drawings Efficiently?

answered Apr 28, 2014 at 23:34

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How and when should I introduce my students to WolframAlpha?

answered Apr 13, 2014 at 13:23

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Resources for teaching Riemann integration in higher dimensions and on submanifolds, with view toward Stokes' theorem?

answered Mar 17, 2014 at 19:44

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How can one deal with classes split up (in terms of previous knowledge)?

answered Mar 23, 2014 at 14:56

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What is a free and simple 3D plot software for students?

answered Mar 13, 2014 at 23:44

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Looking for simple "interesting" math problems that cannot be easily solved without algebra

answered Mar 16, 2014 at 23:41

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What are some great books for inspiring children to explore mathematics?

answered Mar 16, 2014 at 23:20

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Physics in Linear Algebra

answered Apr 2, 2014 at 1:48

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How can I familiarize elementary school students with infinities larger than $\aleph_0$?

answered Mar 23, 2014 at 14:06