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What is a good handwriting font for mathematics?

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What should be included in a freshman 'Mathematics for computer programmers' course?

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How can I estimate the length of an exam?

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How can I teach my students the difference between a sequence and a series?

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Is there any proof of the fundamental theorem of algebra that can be introduced to undergraduates who have just completed Calc III?

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Should students be asked to use more than one notation for the derivative in an introductory calculus class?

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When asked to by a religious university, how can an instructor make a mathematics course spiritually uplifting?

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For calculus students, what should be the intuition or motivation behind series?

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Why does high school teaching in the USA require a teaching certificate while college/university teaching does not?

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How should LaTeX be taught to university students?

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What do you do when you realize mid-lecture that your lesson plan is not working?

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How do you go about writing your own lecture notes for a new course?

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How to motivate equivalence classes

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How is teaching calculus in high school different from teaching calculus in college?

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How can you explain to students that they should not use the same variable in an integrand and in the limits of integration simultaneously?

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To what extent is math research in the United States subsidized by calculus teaching?

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What interesting properties of the Fibonacci sequence can I share when introducing sequences?

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When did the American school system's progression of math classes take its current form?

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What basic algebra skills and techniques are most important for calculus students to know?

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What are the major obstacles to crowdsourcing a competitive, free calculus text?

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What is an efficient way of drawing surfaces in multivariable calculus?

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How can a research mathematician transition into a mathematics education researcher?

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How can creativity be incorporated into elementary school mathematics?

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What examples of groups should students in abstract algebra learn to test ideas on?

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How does the workload of a high-school mathematics teacher compare to a university-level instructor?

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What to do when your students are all getting A's

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How to build a class based on Project Euler?

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How can you determine the quality of your teaching, or someone else's?

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Physics-based mathematical courses

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Is there any research on the correlation between a professor's research ability and their ability to teach graduate level courses?