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For questions requesting examples of a certain structure or phenomenon

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What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?

This was one of the first counter-examples in a research paper that I understood because the authors method of proof is very elementary. …
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What are your favorite instructional counterexamples?

Another one of my favorite counter examples is $2\mathbb{Z}$ which is a RNG, or a ring without identity. …
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Nontrivial question about Fibonacci numbers?

Ask them to prove that the ratios of the Fibonacci sequence tends to the golden ratio. That is $\frac{F_n}{F_{n-1}} \to \phi$. This can be done with basic calculus.