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For questions related to teaching mathematics. For questions in Mathematics Education as a scientific discipline there is also the tag mathematics-education. Note you may also ask your question on http://matheducators.stackexchange.com/.
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Chalkboard eraser
The Hagoromo chalk, now produced in South Korea, is well accompanied by a professional Korean microfibre eraser (600,000 fibers per square inch), as explained by professor Bayer on his Chalk page.
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Pages from a known textbook on Euclidean geometry?
I am a bit unsure about the purpose of the question: precisely this textbook or an equivalent one? For what it's worth, Mathematik für Mittelschulen: Geometrie by Frommenwilder and Studer has very sim …
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Source of a quote by Ferdinand Rudio
The quote is from a speech Rudio gave at the Town Hall in Zürich on the 6th December 1883; The German original is published in Felix Stähelin, Reden und Vorträge (1956, I have not found it online). …
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What is so special about Chern's way of teaching?
Louis Auslander has described his experiences on S.S. Chern as a teacher:
Somehow Chern conveyed the philosophy that making mistakes was normal
and that passing from mistake to mistake to truth was t …
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Books on the relationship between the Socratic method and mathematics?
An influential book on the teaching of mathematics via the Socratic method is Imre Lakatos, Proofs and Refutations. …
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Accessible literature on fractional dimensions of subsets of $\mathbb R^n$
Erin Pearse's Introduction to dimension theory and fractal geometry may well be suited for this purpose. It introduces the various ways to define and measure a fractional dimension (box counting, Mink …
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Teaching prime number theorem in a complex analysis class for physicists
"Newman's short proof of the prime number theorem" by Don Zagier might work, in particular since there is an extensive discussion of the steps in that proof in this MSE posting. "The proof has a beaut …