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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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Short Course Suggestions For High School Students

I realized recently that you can do something really cool with good students after they learn the standard forms for conic sections: you can compute the compactifications of their moduli spaces. I gav …
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How to present mathematics to non-mathematicians?

Their are two things I say to people when I am in such a situation: 1) I think of math as being divided into 3 parts: Algebra, Analysis and Topology. Each of these comes from starting with a set and …
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Informal online seminars or reading groups via videoconferencing?

it seems that google wave will be capable of something like this in the future (hopefully not too distant), maybe even already... My thoughts are that you could have one person giving a lecture live v …
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Why is a topology made up of 'open' sets?

I found that the comment box underneath andrews response wasnt large enough for what i had to say. I think that before i continue in my answer i should mention that i study homotopy theory, and maybe …
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