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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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What should we teach to liberal arts students who will take only one math course?
Look at the contents of this course, by Satyan Devadoss at Williams College: The Shape of Nature,
a.k.a., the Geometry and Topology of Nature. It was just released the The Teaching Company. [Disclosu …
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How do undergrad students write papers by themselves?
Permit me to draw attention to a relatively new journal,
Involve—A Journal of Mathematics. Snippets from About the Journal:
"Involve is dedicated to showcasing and encouraging high quality mathema …
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Review papers in mathematics
Two excellent sources:
The AMS series, What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences (AMS link). Now eight volumes. Barry Cipra, a frequent contributor to MO, has authored many of the articles. The
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Informal online seminars or reading groups via videoconferencing?
The software Elluminate Live is quite impressive, permitting simultaneous text-chatting,
video, audio, and a nice whiteboard that onto which all participants can write and deposit images.
All aspects …
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How can I combine my interests for pure mathematics and computer science in college?
As HA Helfgott suggests, at many schools, it is quite feasible to simply double-major in math and in computer science.
NYU, as you mention, offers a joint major in math and computer science, includin …
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"Mathematics talk" for five year olds
See "Picture-Hanging Puzzles" by Erik Demaine et al. (arXiv link):
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Lecture on Fractals for Middle School Students
Your task is both a challenge and an opportunity: they will be unfamiliar with complex numbers, but perhaps you could motivate the utility of complex numbers.
I might try to introduce them to the comp …
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Numerical equality testing
There is a thread of work that derives from W.-T. Wu's work on geometry
theorem proving, and this seminal paper by Schwartz,
Schwartz, Jacob T. "Fast probabilistic algorithms for verification of p …
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How do you mentor undergraduate research?
"...should the student work on open problems...?"
I think that working on open problems is fine—even exciting—if you follow Pólya's
advice in
How to Solve It:
"If you can't solve a problem, the …
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Interesting and accessible topics in graph theory
I have found that the Art Gallery Problem engages middle- and high-school students, and quickly leads to the unknown, which itself can be eye-opening to students. (On the latter point, students tend t …
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Short Course Suggestions For High School Students
If I may forgiven for self-promotion,
you might examine How To Fold It: The Mathematics of Linkages, Origami, and Polyhedra
(Cambridge University Press, 2011). All of its topics are accessible to hi …
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Taking "Zooming in on a point of a graph" seriously
An animation of your first example, $y=x(x−1)(x+1)$.
I limited the number of frames so that the file would not be too huge (it is ~1MB now).
Frame rate is browser and processor dependent. At best thi …
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How to explain to an engineer what algebraic geometry is?
This is along the lines suggested by @DonuArapura: "describe a problem [...] that is reasonably concrete and accessible, and go from there."
Here is a problem an engineer would appreciate: Which bent …
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One-step problems in geometry
(1) Prove: Every simple polygon may be triangulated
(partitioned into triangles) via diagonals,
vertex-to-vertex segments
that are strictly interior (except at their endpoints).
[This is a precursor t …
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What kid-friendly math riddles are too often spoiled for mathematicians?
The shortest path of a fly walking on the interior surface of a cubic room:
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