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Brian Rushton
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34 votes
11 answers
5k views

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

33 votes
12 answers
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For calculus students, what should be the intuition or motivation behind series?

20 votes
4 answers
7k views

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

21 votes
3 answers
1k views

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

86 votes
19 answers
29k views

What is a good handwriting font for mathematics?

17 votes
8 answers
3k views

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

27 votes
16 answers
2k views

How to motivate equivalence classes

18 votes
4 answers
3k views

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

11 votes
3 answers
384 views

In math courses with writing requirements, how should large papers be graded fairly?

11 votes
3 answers
774 views

What topics could be covered in a course on fractals?

32 votes
10 answers
2k views

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

33 votes
11 answers
8k views

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

25 votes
6 answers
969 views

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

12 votes
6 answers
874 views

Graphing functions from a finite field to itself

29 votes
11 answers
5k views

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

10 votes
5 answers
873 views

What is a fair way of constructing exams with tiered levels of difficulty?

12 votes
4 answers
13k views

What should you do if you lose your student's exam?

25 votes
4 answers
7k views

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

22 votes
11 answers
9k views

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

8 votes
2 answers
1k views

Unit circle vs. ratios of right triangles vs. wave functions for introducing trig functions

11 votes
4 answers
369 views

What topic can I use in an Introduction to Proofs course that would introduce students to a wide variety of proof methods?

11 votes
4 answers
6k views

Why are university algebra courses often harder than the corresponding high school courses?

19 votes
3 answers
1k views

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

13 votes
2 answers
437 views

What prerequisites would college students need for a course based primarily on Euclid's elements?

18 votes
4 answers
438 views

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

15 votes
2 answers
250 views

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

19 votes
4 answers
631 views

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

9 votes
1 answer
850 views

Open-ended tasks for teaching students about integration techniques

9 votes
1 answer
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Which math classes should be included in an undergraduate computer science program?

27 votes
3 answers
1k views

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