Unanswered Questions
44 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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Course materials for developing a mathematical theory from "natural questions to ask"
Educational setting.
I'm teaching math courses - typically consisting of lectures, weekly homework sheets, and an exercise class where the homework questions are discussed - for undergraduate and ...
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"Extension Mathematics" by Tony Gardiner
I would like to know if anybody has experience with the British textbook series Extension Mathematics in three volumes, by Tony Gardiner.
It claims to be "the first structured KS3/S1-S2 programme for ...
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Teaching a Pre-Calculus Course using Basic Mathematics by Serge Lang
I am considering using Basic Mathematics by Serge Lang as the primary text for my High School Pre-Calculus course. My students have all spent a year working through the first six books of Euclid and ...
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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 are the differences between the $n$ permutations of the Edwards & Penney Differential Equations books?
Edwards and Penney are the authors of a popular differential equations textbook. Bizarrely, there seem to be $2^4$ permutations of the title:
Some versions have "Elementary" and some don't
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Is there ADA-compliance certification for mathematics text books?
What factors are there to consider when adopting a text as far as ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) is concerned? Is there a certification? What do you look for in the digital version of the text? ...
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Which calculus textbook is aligned the most with the CollegeBoard course description?
The CollegeBoard website lists many AP calculus BC references.
But it also mentions that "The materials on this List range in alignment from 59% to 100%."
So, which of them is aligned the most with ...
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Importance of "Calculus->Analysis Transition Books"?
E.S.E. advisers,
I am a college sophomore with a major in mathematics and an aspiring mathematician in the fields of computation theory and cryptography. I am always curious about the importance of "...
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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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Comparison of texbook for "how to write proofs"
I posted this question in the math stackexchange https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4681694/comparison-of-textbooks-on-how-to-write-proofs and one person suggested that I cross-post it here. I'...
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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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SMSG Calculus Usage?
Did anyone out there have experience with SMSG's Calculus text? Our school system (Amherst, MA) used SMSG texts from my 6th grade class onward. But for HS Calculus (1969) we didn't use the two-part ...
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