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Is there a website where online seminars in Mathematics Education are announced? What resources are available when seeking to join a mathematics education community?
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The setup: A 10 year old kid who knows addition up to 10+10 but is 3 times as slow with it as the rest of the class (with very low percentage of mistakes though: out of 50 problems only 1 or 2 are …
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Let’s assume our students are actual aspiring mathematicians. Why would we introduce our students to Calculus rather than Real Analysis? After all, “Calculus is a subset of Real Analysis”. He will …
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There seem to be two approaches to calculus education: Early transcendentals: introduce polynomials, rational functions, exponentials, logarithms, and trigonometric functions at the beginning of the …
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This forum already has many good, simple examples of induction proofs, a great resource. As I am soon to teach induction for the $n^\textrm{th}$ time—this time to some perhaps under-prepared …
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Background: I am new to this site, but have 1500 reputation on the main Maths Stack. I am (age-wise) a secondary student of maths, but for a very long time have been informally learning at home and …
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I am curious why students who take calculus in high school often do so poorly in college calculus. I am an instructor at an engineering college and I’ve noticed a decent number of students who have …
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I can never figure out what should be a memorization concept and what should be in a reference table. For example, in calculus, you are expected to memorize all the derivatives and integrals but in …
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The Pigeonhole Principle (or Dirichlet’s box principle) is a method introduced usually quite early in the mathematical curriculum. The examples where it is usually introduced are (in my humble …
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