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For questions in Mathematics Education as a scientific discipline. For more hands-on questions on teaching Mathematics, please use the tag teaching. There is also a Stack Exchange community http://matheducators.stackexchange.com/
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Where and when did "transition to abstraction" courses start?
I often find myself debating the content and structure of such courses and I would find it useful to know the basic history.
I don't remember any such offerings during my own undergraduate days in …
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Classroom platonism
I'd like to know whether any form a certain hypothesis about the
learning of higher mathematics has entered the mathematical or
educational literature. I'll frame the hypothesis here but not defend
i …
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Virtual algebraic calculation within proofs
It seems to me that the undergraduates I teach have particular difficulty with proofs that involve reasoning about algebraic calculations that arise only theoretically. Since I have in mind doing som …
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MathJax (or something like it) as a classroom “blackboard”
(I tried this first at https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/187265/mathjax-or-something-like-it-as-a-classroom-blackboard , but didn't get satisfactory responses.)
What is the best desktop applic …
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Pedagogical question concerning $\Gamma(z)$
Pedagogically speaking, I see two problems with defining
$\Gamma(z)$ (at least for real $z$) by the limit
$$\Gamma(z)=\lim_{m\to\infty}\frac{m! m^z}{\prod_{i=0}^m (z+i)}$$
as compared with the formula …
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