Timeline for alternative construction of the quotient group
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| Feb 7, 2010 at 20:25 | comment | added | Martin Brandenburg | I also think that it's very important to introduce equivalence relations before cosets. before you collapse groups, you should have collapsed some sets ;-). | |
| Feb 7, 2010 at 18:10 | comment | added | Tim Porter | That is a possible reason. The problem in that case would be to construct examples that attack both lacks of understanding. I think my point is that a possible analysis of the coset problem is that there are too many different things going on when students first meet them. (I do not know if the maths eduction and psychology people have looked at these areas, has anyone any idea?) | |
| Feb 7, 2010 at 17:55 | comment | added | Harry Gindi | Students don't understand well-definition because they don't understand the concept of a function. | |
| Feb 7, 2010 at 17:45 | history | answered | Tim Porter | CC BY-SA 2.5 |