Unanswered Questions
32 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What studies exist, comparing the efficacy of exercise sheets with or without worked solutions?
I've been tutoring mathematics at university level for over 10 years, and one of the more common requests from students is worked solutions for sheets of exercises. Most educators I've worked with ...
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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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Studies into the effects of having fewer classes per term
Have there been any studies done into the effect of having fewer classes per term on a student's comprehension of their mathematics course material? Also are there any examples of schools that have ...
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Research into the mathematical education of adults with no prior formal mathematical experience
I am curious about the experiences of people who had no formal mathematical training in their youth, but learned mathematics as adults.
I imagine that there are a fair number of people in the US who ...
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Literature on skill transfer
Motivated by this other question I'm interested in getting to know the literature on mathematics skills transfer within itself.
All I know is what I've read in David Perkins's book "Knowledge as ...
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Literature on teaching and learning probability
In an earlier question, the book Exploring Probability in School (2005) (Link) was mentioned. It gives an overview of the research on the teaching and learning of probability up to that point.
Does ...
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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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Research into how students read algebraic expressions
In answering another question What is the justification to teach the (redundant) use of parentheses in multiplications? I was left wondering what we actually know about students' progression in terms ...
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How to control for numerical factor in mathematics education research?
I am going to carry out a small scale action research on ratio problems. I would ask the same questions in different ways and see whether wordings would affect students' performance. However, past ...
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Appropriate journals for case study article about teaching math to learning-disabled student
Many scholarly articles have been written about the relationship between low working memory and math learning difficulties. There's not much written about what to do about it.
I would like to write ...
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Undergraduate maths research
I am looking for:
an undergraduate research program
in mathematics/theoretical physics
offered online (e.g. via skype or something)
given by a good institution
which can be followed while attending ...
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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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