Unanswered Questions
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Interdisciplinary Calculus and Statistics Texts for Advanced Secondary Students
I'm planning some interdisciplinary options for future students at a small independent school to be implemented in the next few years. The courses would be offered as independent studies and students ...
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Student input in secondary teacher evaluations
this is something I have been wondering about for a while now. In my school district (urban setting in Pennsylvania) student input amounts to exactly 0% of the final assessment for observed teachers. ...
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Math textbook for secondary school using Logo like language
What math textbooks for kids do you know that use Logo or similar languages with visual robots like Turtle (in "The Turtle Geometry") that demonstrate space motions, transformations of all ...
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Search for educational articles
I am looking for articles in French preferably (or in English otherwise, but my english is bad..) on the following topics:
study of assessments made in class after a problem;
phase of conclusion of a ...
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Math websites/apps for high school students
I am undergraduate math student who is interested in being a high school math teacher. I have been given an assignment to present to my class (for a total of about 20 minutes) a teaching tool or a ...
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why don't we do labs in/for math?
(this is in the US and at a high school level)
why don't we dedicate a day of the week each week to do a lab for math for exploration? I mean we already do that for Earth Science, Physics, Chemistry ...
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Reference for study about good teachers in a US state
Several years ago I have read about a study in a US state where standard test scores were used to identify teachers whose students consistently improved far above the average and then film and analyse ...
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App to show exercises solved by students in real time
I'm looking for an app that can be used when the teacher gives a set of exercises to his class to show for each exercise how many students solved it, how many students tried to solve it, etc. The ...
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Request for IBL Script for Putnam-type Problem Solving Course
One of the major benefits of a good IBL script is that it effectively organizes the experience of students so that their effort does not need to be used on such organization. A good script leads from ...
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Lancasterian/Monitorial system at a secondary level?
While getting stuff ready for the soon-to-be-here school year, I came across Joe Lancaster and the Monitorial system, where older students who have mastered certain content areas are charged with ...
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1st time math teacher 1st test feedback appreciated
I'm not a math teacher but I've stepped into the role to assist a small private school who lost their math teacher during the holidays (I'm a mechanical engineer by trade). The course is Algebra 1 (...
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simpson paradox in classroom: reports?
he Simpson's Paradox is a statistical phenomenon in which a trend or relationship observed within a dataset disappears or reverses when the dataset is divided into smaller groups. It occurs when a ...
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Quality of a solution in mathematics
How can you determine a quality of a solution for a mathematics problem in general ?
If you try to explain too much then solution becomes bit longer and it takes time to go through causing less ...
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What do you use to make your course materials?
I'm a second year teacher teaching Precal for the first time.
I have a few textbooks, but the problem is that my school does not (and will never) have class sets of any of them for students to use.
To ...
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Symmetry of mathematical expressions in problem solving
**How would you use symmetry of mathematical expressions in problem solving in order to save time by minimizing simplifications?
This is not related to geometrical symmetry which is very much ...
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