Unanswered Questions
21 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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How can instructors bridge the gap between an engineering course in stochastic systems and a more rigorous Stochastic Processes course?
Systems and electrical engineering graduate students often take a course on stochastic systems (a.k.a. "Probabilistic Systems Analysis"). A typical course will present such topics as multivariable ...
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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.
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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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Transition into a non-explicit sample space world
This is one of the problem taunting me over years while explaining probability.
In most of the high-school as well as graduate textbooks, there are at most very few lines to deal with this problem.
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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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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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When Did They Start Using Ohm's Triangle for Arithmetic Topics?
I am here with a historical question about maths education. I hope I have chosen the right SE as there are confusingly three that pertain to historical research into mathematics.
Any quantitative ...
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Why students do not notice sign of plus/minus?
My child in grade 3 often needs a reminder because in a task where he needs to do addition he would subtract instead of adding or v.v ignoring the signs given in a task. He would also forget adding ...
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