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Is there national grade distribution data for introductory service courses?
I am looking for US average national or state grade distribution data for courses that are typically considered as math service courses: precalculus, calculus 1,2,3, linear algebra, differential ...
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"Tools" (literarily) for solving linear or quadratic equations
Since a few weeks, I teach as a tutor (not from that school) a support course in a German 9/10 class. I quickly noticed a horrible lack of basics. (Partly based on just different names - I had to ...
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Is there any way of explaining the Cayley/Beltrami–Klein metric to undergrads?
How to explain the Cayley-Klein or sometimes called Beltrami–Klein metric concept to find the distance between two points in a hyperbolic space to an audience with no higher education than maybe a ...
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Worldwide standard textbooks vs textbooks from one's home country vs lecture notes by various people - pros and cons
So far I've had three types of professors in my undergrad studies when it comes to choosing the main text for the course:
Type A: these are the professors who pick some standard textbook(s) in English ...
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What are differences and the examples of syntactic knowlede and substantive knowledge in mathematics?
There is a distinction between substantive and syntactic knowledge particularly in mathematics. There are several definitions for both knowledge. However, what are the indicators and the examples of ...
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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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Tactile Learning Activities in Mathematics
Julie Barnes, Jessica M. Libertini. Tactile Learning Activities in Mathematics: A Recipe Book for the Undergraduate Classroom.
2018. MAA Press.
AMS Bookstore link.
Can anyone comment / review ...
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Introduction of the power set as a collection of *labels* or *names* for subsets
The way that naïve set theory is usually presented in undergraduate education is via very concrete examples of sets, often involving non-mathematical elements. When power sets are treated, having a ...
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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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What to cover on a first ordinary differential equations module?
I will have to teach a first course in differential equations. What should I cover in this module? For example, in most books, have Laplace Transforms which is fine but I would not use LT to solve ...
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Math curricula\programs or any experience using "The Road to Reality" as the\a primary textbook
Primarily a reference request, collaborator search-tips requests, and question-improvement request (including improveent by deletion and re-posting to more appropriate stack, meta, wiki, etc). Rank ...
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Number theory in an introductory course on discrete dynamical systems
Benjamin Hutz, in Chapter 10 of his An Experimental Introduction to Number Theory, allows for the optional inclusion of discrete dynamical systems with a number-theoretic flavor in an undergraduate ...
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Exercises for explaning homothety, homothetic center, similarity on line and plane, free vector and vector space
I need the collection of exercises for such topics as:
maps and transformations, composition of maps
homothety, rotation homothety, homothetic center
similarities of the line and the plane
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How long should we spend on teaching students the basics of subject?
Highschool-courses, at least in my country, are structured in a way that you tackle with a higher level of a given subject after some time constraint. So, after one year, you get to a higher class ...
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How to teach year 3 undergraduate courses to high school students?
I see on the webpage of a high school math summer program, SuMac, that they will cover some algebraic topology in a period of several weeks. And they covered every aspect of this subject, including ...
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