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10 votes
5 answers
832 views

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

15 votes
2 answers
243 views

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

12 votes
6 answers
850 views

Graphing functions from a finite field to itself

18 votes
3 answers
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What is an efficient way of drawing surfaces in multivariable calculus?

17 votes
4 answers
420 views

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

18 votes
4 answers
613 views

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

9 votes
1 answer
825 views

Open-ended tasks for teaching students about integration techniques

19 votes
4 answers
6k views

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

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

14 votes
2 answers
322 views

Physics-based mathematical courses

16 votes
3 answers
787 views

How to build a class based on Project Euler?

21 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

45 votes
12 answers
31k views

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

13 votes
5 answers
921 views

An application-heavy functional analysis textbook?

11 votes
3 answers
763 views

What topics could be covered in a course on fractals?

32 votes
10 answers
4k views

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

11 votes
4 answers
5k views

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

14 votes
2 answers
508 views

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

11 votes
4 answers
364 views

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

25 votes
16 answers
2k views

How to motivate equivalence classes

6 votes
1 answer
210 views

How to handle babies in the classroom [closed]

11 votes
3 answers
375 views

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

7 votes
1 answer
721 views

What universities in the United States have Spanish-language mathematics classes?

25 votes
6 answers
3k views

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

29 votes
11 answers
5k views

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

17 votes
4 answers
3k views

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

17 votes
2 answers
841 views

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

29 votes
11 answers
5k views

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

12 votes
4 answers
12k views

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