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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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How to write popular mathematics well?

This is a great question, with many possible answers. Here are some of the guidelines that I try (and often fail) to follow in my writing: With mathematical writing, as with any writing, think clear …
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An example of a beautiful proof that would be accessible at the high school level?

One of the keys to making a proof accessible to high school students (or just non-mathematicians) is to make the answer relevant. This gives a dual responsibility, to ensure that the theorem is motiva …
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