Unanswered Questions
22 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 of multiple induction
It is easy to find/construct cases that can be proven by nested induction, i.e., some variation of the theme to prove the statement $P(m, n)$ you prove $P(1, n)$ by induction as a base case for $m$, ...
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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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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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What evidence is there in the literature that lessons geared towards dyslexic student help non-dyslexic students?
Dyslexic students sometimes benefit from informal analogies to things in the world which the student can see with their eyes, and/or touch with their hands.
Tentatively, we can conjecture that ...
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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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Examples of Financial Institutions that Compute Interest Atypically?
Are there examples of financial institutions that compound their interest more frequently than once-a-month? Are there examples of financial institutions that consider continually compounded interest ...
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Are there any fun toy applications of representation and character theory for finite groups to physics?
Representation theory has very deep ties with physics, leading to incredibly profound and admittedly cool results such as the classification of particles in the Standard Model via mass and spin by ...
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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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The propagation of the wave equation in even versus odd dimension
I am about to teach a second year undergraduate class on applied differential equation (first time) and, while I won't have time to go into the details, I wanted to show my students the difference ...
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