Unanswered Questions
23 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Was math education following a western trend?
After some research on the recent history of math education in the U.S., from the new math movement to the beginning of the 21st century, I understood that the historic flow of the math education ...
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Shanghai math -- what is it, and how good is it?
Some schools in the UK are adopting English translations of a grade school math textbook from Shanghai. The book appears to be designed to work with a specific teaching approach, the only specifics ...
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Examples for advanced math courses based on measurable learning objectives
Background. I teach math at a German university (both undergraduate courses and courses for Master programmes), mostly for students who major in mathematics or very similar programmes. Students ...
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Statistics for Primary School: Informal Inferential Reasoning
Is there anyone that is experienced in teaching Informal Inferential Reasoning in primary school? Mind to share your experience?
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What is a less anglo-centric collection of persons than Andy, Beth, Carl, Debby and Earl?
These five imagined persons have accompanied me for some time. We've had a bunch of laughs and a few tears. I love them dearly. That said, I'd like to retire them in favor of a more culturally diverse ...
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Word problems written in past tense, present tense, or future tense
Does anyone have extensive classroom experience regarding the best verb tense to use when writing word problems at an elementary or middle school level? I have been writing some lessons recently and I ...
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Textbooks explicitly showing the injections for the sum of sets
Asking for methods to produce the sum of natural numbers from the disjoint union of sets, it seems that the obvious way is to use the general definition, as coproduct, of the sum of sets. The accepted ...
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Is there a name for 'simple' two-input-one-output word problems?
Andy has 4 apples, and then eats 2. How many does he have left?
Beth drives for 3 hours at 80 km/h. How far did she go?
Carl, Debbie and Earl earned $30 together shoveling driveways. How much does ...
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Organization of an interview preparation course
This coming Fall semester, I will have to organize a course to prepare high school students for the maths interview they will have before entering to university. This is my first time teaching this, ...
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How can a church or other non-academic institution find and hire math teachers?
We'd like to set up a remedial math program in our church. To do so, we would need to hire at least two teachers who could design courses in middle school and high school math, and teach them.
I'm a ...
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OER text for the mathematics of fair division
I'd like to design a course with a unit on fair division, and I'm looking for an OER text to use. The course will be a general education seminar, so students won't be expected to have any mathematical ...
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How must the "ungrading" idea be adapted to work in a math class?
After seeing no direct responses to this question, I'll instead be more direct myself. Ungrading is a buzzword being tossed about for assessing students' progress without focusing on quantitative ...
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What effect does giving numerical or written grades have on learning?
When I was in school, pupils were given numerical grades, or the equivalent of numerical grades but disguised as words, on their performance in various school subjects and also behaviour. A key ...
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Split differential equations into two video courses; theory and calculation?
I'm creating a course on differential equations, and I'm painfully aware that there is a LOT to teach.
As of right now, I'm considering splitting the course into two, in the following manner:
theory ...
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congruency: how widely used?
Today I was made aware of the term "congruency" as a word related to congruence in the same way that equality is related to equation. I have never seen the term "congruency" used ...
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