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Teaching students how to check the validity of their proofsThe question Teaching students to find and correct their own errors and its answers address mainly calculation problems of the types typically found in secondary school and the lower levels of ...
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Does this explanation of integration and the Fundamental Theorems of Calculus make any sense?First, Sue Pemberton (Pure Mathematics 1 Coursebook, 2018, Cambridge University Press) introduces integration as the reverse process of differentiation ... $\int x^3 \mathrm d x$ is called the ...
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Advice for assigning student projects in masters data science stats courseI'd like some advice on assigning final projects in an applied stats course that I'm developing as part of a master's in data science program. I don't have a lot of experience assigning student ...
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Why is learning mathematics compulsory?In most education systems, Mathematics is a compulsory subject from primary school all the way to the start of university. A common reason given is that essential concepts like addition and ...
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Whether to tell students how difficult (you think) a problem isBackground: Most textbooks end a section with a set of questions ranked either by topic or by difficulty. A distinction is often made between "exercises", which are for directly practicing a ...
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Looking for simple "interesting" math problems that cannot be easily solved without algebraI often find students who dislike algebra. They prefer to work with numbers in solving problems. I believe there are many problems that are hard to solve without algebra. For example: Finding the ...
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The concept of infinity for a 5 year oldMy son, who just turned 5, has been interested in the concept of infinity since long. He asks me a lot of questions regarding infinity. For example, not accepting my infinity + any number = infinity, ...
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Why don’t American school textbooks recognize negative numbers as whole numbers?Looking up for definition for whole numbers on Google yields a result which mentions: The whole numbers are also called the positive integers (or the nonnegative integers, if zero is included). I ...
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Correcting how a student writes symbolsOne of my college students writes the Greek letter $\pi$ as a script n with a bar over it, like $\bar{n}$. [There is actual space between the letter and the bar.] I have never seen this before, and ...
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Teaching the difference between standard deviation and interquartile rangeAre there any good examples for high school studends where: Interquartile range is "better" to describe "spread" in an (empirical) statistical distribution of data standard deviation is a "better" ...
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