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What are pros and cons of requiring students to create their own math questions, and what are some tips to make it work well?
I will teach a special class of 10 high school students who are aiming to study math at top universities. The purpose of the class is to increase students' interest and ability in math. There is ...
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Should I choose Cox-based Jaynes' approach or Kolmogorov approach to base myself on to teach probabilities to high-school students?
I am planning to become a math high-school teacher and have the following question:
What Probability Theory should I base myself on to teach probabilities to students ?
The classical approach is via ...
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Do you think with the advent of Desmos/GeoGebra, the Moore Method is more accessible to high school?
When I was a grad student, I taught a Calculus I course during the summer. Somehow I came across Robert Moore and I ended up reading his book which I connected with. Rather than being a great student, ...
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Speed math appropriate for middle-school students
There are many "rules" for speed arithmetic.
List of some reference links showing speed methods or rules:
https://ofpad.com/multiplication-tricks-for-mental-math/
https://ofpad.com/mental-...
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highschool's mathematics journal which citable in Google Scholar
I'm a high school Mathematics teacher and I want to issue some research articles for highschool students to improve their math problem resolve skills. Is there any valuable Math journal for high ...
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A Question about Answer Keys
I am a HS math teacher and just started a job that adopted a new curriculum at the last minute. It gave us the tasks but did not provide any answer keys. Of course, I know how to work through the math ...
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What evidence is there in the literature that lessons geared towards dyslexic student help non-dyslexic students?
Dyslexic students sometimes benefit from informal analogies to things in the world which the student can see with their eyes, and/or touch with their hands.
Tentatively, we can conjecture that ...
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Joint Teaching of a First Year Engineering Maths Class
My department is considering using more than one lecturer (sequentially, not in parallel) to give lectures in our large first-year classes (e.g. 500 students doing engineering mathematics).
In other ...
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‘Lies to children’ in mathematics and statistics education
In teaching, we sometimes necessarily oversimplify concepts. Terry Pratchett famously referred to this as Lies to children:
A lie-to-children is a statement that is false, but which nevertheless ...
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How can a teacher help a student who has internalized mistakes?
John is trying to learn some field of mathematics. John's teacher Sarah gives constructive criticism to John after seeing John's attempts on exercises related to the field he studies. Later, John ...
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New Math Teacher Seeking Advice [closed]
I am new to teaching math, especially middle school math. My own math education was limited to high school and college calculus. These were painful experiences. How to do I go about learning to teach ...
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what could be some replacement language for the term "spoon feeding"
In some cultures, there is an expression of "spoon feeding" type of instruction, where the teacher shows how to do steps to a problem, and then students are assigned minor variants thereof. ...
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Is there a widely respected early childhood math curriculum?
If it's a good idea to work on reading and language from early childhood, I'd bet that it's a good idea to work on math and quantities too.
I have an 18 month old. I've pretty much been winging it ...
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How does the average level of expected mathematical sophistication at high school level increase?
I remember reading an old calculus book (years 1920-1930) and in the preface it was portrayed as revolutionary because it was for high school students. Nowadays, that is not revolutionary, because ...
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student doesn't bring a homework in a 1-to-1 class [closed]
What should a tutor do? I have students who even ask for homeworks, because they have desire for new knowledge in math. However, in my experience, most pupils hate mathematics. Should I ask their ...
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