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Mental Health in Mathematics
I am not sure if my question is relative to this meta but I still want to put forth my thoughts and concerns and questions because I think its not just me but others too who have similar issues.
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Abandon all hope, ye who enter my office!
The sentence in the title is inspired by a sentence on the gate of hell in Dante Alighieri's masterwork Divine Comedy (Part I: Inferno). I usually write it on my office door after exams when I think ...
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How to keep track of your old exercises in a heavy proof based course?
In a typical course (proof-based, for the context of this question) I have about 50 exercises that I might want to use when I teach the course again. Each exercise might be used in the same way as ...
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Students' Messy Sheets: The Big Problem of Exams and Homeworks
Students' messy exam and homework sheets (which are messy because of a bad handwriting or an irregular logical argument in proofs) cause many serious problems. e.g.
Reading their arguments takes ...
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Advantages on repeating question in student's answer
I see a lot of students who repeat the whole question (i.e., before starting with anything which has some content, they write down all assumptions, claims, etc.) in their answers in homework or exams. ...
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How does a take-home exam differ from a homework assignment?
I've taught several upper-level courses recently, and have considered giving take-home exams to reduce the time pressure in the classroom.
However, their homework already consists of proving various ...
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