Questions tagged [reference-request]
A reference request is a request to be provided with (links to) documentation, official papers, and specs related to one or more specific algorithms or mathematical procedures, to provide a trusted base for what's being said or written.
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References on maxima and minima serving as a pedagogical context to explore and gain a deeper understanding of real functions
The concept of a function is fundamental and plays a crucial role in various areas of mathematics. For instance, Dubinsky and Harel's book, The Concept of Function: Aspects of Epistemology and ...
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Literature on mathematical intutiion
Is there any literature on mathematical intuition?
I would like to read the following, for example.
How to train intuition?
How to test intuition?
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Book or curriculum for teaching base-16 numeral system to elementary, middle, or high school children?
In 1862, John W. Nystrom promoted the base-16 (hexadecimal) number system, which he called the "tonal system": Project of a New System of Arithmetic, Weight, Measure and Coins: Proposed to ...
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Is there a mathematics core assessment rubric?
Many universities in USA ask their faculty to perform a "core assessment" where they evaluate (typically) freshman students, near the end of semester, on their understanding of the courses ...
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Some whiteboard program specialized for "typing" with latex support
Answers to the Previou question seem to suggest some whiteboard programs with latex support.
However, my impression is that they are mostly designed for "handwriting" with some electrical ...
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Are some natural languages better for expressing mathematical concepts than others?
I don't know if this is the best stack exchange for this question, but I couldn't think of a better one. Please migrate it to an appropriate stack exchange, if this one is not appropriate. Anyway, my ...
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How did Grigori Perelman , got all the necessary theory and materials to prove the Poincaré conjecture?
The Poincaré conjecture is one of the millennium problems which have been solved by the famous mathematician Grigori Perelman . As per I know he worked on the problem in isolation for 8 years. I ...
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ADHD superfocus and motivation for mathematics
I am almost surely ADHD, although undiagnosed. I have colleagues in mathematics who also are, but diagnosed. I have an extremely talented and successful graduate student who is (diagnosed) ADHD.
It is ...
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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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Utillizing Lakatos' "Proofs and Refutations" in Secondary Education
These days I am reading Imre Lakatos's Proofs and Refutations and I can't stop thinking how one could utilize it in the classroom (mostly high school). Some stray half-baked ideas I have had so far ...
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What are some good books on mathematical pedagogy?
I suspect that; just as one must "do" mathematics to learn mathematics, one must have practice teaching mathematics to become a great mathematics instructor.
Still, a good book on ...
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Course materials for developing a mathematical theory from "natural questions to ask"
Educational setting.
I'm teaching math courses - typically consisting of lectures, weekly homework sheets, and an exercise class where the homework questions are discussed - for undergraduate and ...
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Theory-practice order vs practice-theory
I heard that there were some studies on what is the best order for teaching math. But I cannot find any papers (probably my English is too poor to google this paper correctly).
As I heard idea was: ...
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Studies on the change in effectiveness of pedagogical practices over time
Are there any studies that have investigated this question?
Why certain pedagogical practices that used to be effective up to a few years ago, may suddenly become less or even no longer effective?
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Research into how students read algebraic expressions
In answering another question What is the justification to teach the (redundant) use of parentheses in multiplications? I was left wondering what we actually know about students' progression in terms ...
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