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How to choose a textbook that is pedagogically optimal for oneself?
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Resources for mathematics for sustainability
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Real-life problems involving solving triangles
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What kind of sequence is between an arithmetic and a geometric sequence?
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Does anyone use the cubic formula these days?
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How to justify formula for area of triangle (or parallelogram)
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What to do when uncertain about a question while tutoring
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Which cognitive psychology findings are solid, that I can use to help my students?
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What Basic Math Skills Should Be Expected of Students in a University-Level Linear Algebra Course?
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Don't these word problems seem designed to be confusing?
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What skills do algebra teachers wish their students had mastered before taking algebra?
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How to evaluate a proof that seems to be using induction informally?
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Inner voice when reading mathematics
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How should I convince a student who thinks they proved $1=-1$
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A visualization for the quotient rule
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What are some simple problems that calculators get wrong?
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"Pure Imaginary" or "Purely Imaginary"?
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Computational Software for the whole curriculum and beyond
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Studies into the effects of having fewer classes per term
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Having students assess what problems they're ready for
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What's the most practical and efficient way to sort exams on paper?
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The effectiveness of "honors" classes
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What value is there in requiring students to declare the dimensions of an answer when it is already clear from context?
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Symmetry in polar functions - how to explain
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What theorems from single-variable calculus break down in the multi-variable context?"
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Is $180^\circ = \pi$?
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What is the terminology for "self-referral" integrals in calculus?
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A good book about mathematical thinking
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Whether to tell students how difficult (you think) a problem is
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Intuition for order of operations in compound transformations
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Requesting a Polynomial System of Equations
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Transitioning proof based math courses online
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Test Correction Analysis
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Textbook For a Course on Classical Geometry
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Topological fun facts for high school students
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Examples for advanced math courses based on measurable learning objectives
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ADHD superfocus and motivation for mathematics
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Does a proof by induction have to explicitly refer to the principle of mathematical induction?
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Fixing wrong ideas about coefficients (e.g. subtract 3 from 3x to isolate x)
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What are some "deep" questions to explore in elementary school math?
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Role of human math teachers in the century of AI learning tools
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Natural origins or learned habit: Why do students skip concepts before applications?
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When is it appropriate to warn about the difficulty of a subject?
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Do undergraduates struggle with δ-ε definitions because they lack a habit of careful use of their native language?
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"Real life" examples of limits of functions at finite points
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Why not think of derivatives as fractions?
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What can I do when advanced undergraduate and/or early graduate STEM students cannot perform correct math manipulations?
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Students can't seem to grasp the intent of tangent lines and getting general trends of derivatives from graphs
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Does there exist a (statistical) topology induced by students on the space of algebraic formulas? :)
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Should an undergraduate math program contain a course on Lebesgue integration?
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Multivariable limits
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What are some good books on mathematical pedagogy?
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What is important to keep in mind in grading proof-based courses?
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Correcting how a student writes symbols
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Computing eigenvalues by hand without determinants
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Terminology for parts of limit notation
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How many of "The Seven Laws of Teaching" are still relevant for teaching maths today?
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How to teach pure mathematics to a well-educated adult who did badly in maths at school
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How can we best motivate the study of polynomials to high-school students?
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