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Those who mine gold dig up several tons of soil in order to extract an ounce or two of gold. Much of the math curriculum seems intentionally designed to work like that: Students majoring in poetry or ...
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I have long respected the Math Subject GRE exam as a tool to allow students to demonstrate objective excellence. It gives students with an excellent GPA at unknown schools a method to show they have ...
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I'm a tutor for math and math SAT/ACT. Sometimes, I get a student who has failed or never even seen algebra before. Right now, I have a homeschooled kid who is supposed to be an 11th grader and is ...
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I’m planning to study algebra and basic calculus for grades 10-11 using Mordkovich’s textbooks, and then transition to calculus books. However, I want to understand which topics might be missing in ...
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As a current math student, I find the inclusion of sequences and series in Calculus 2 rather odd. Calculus 2 is a course dedicated to integration and its applications (integration techniques, ...
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My AP PreCalc students are ready to tackle problems a bit harder than the usual fare in textbooks and AP Calc practice books. Are there any books, materials, or websites which have harder PreCalc ...
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I studied math in college and also took a few years of Russian. For a time, I was looking for a way of living in Russia post-graduation (well before the recent war) and I asked one of my professors, ...
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Solids of revolution are typically taught in Calculus II for most undergraduate students or in AP Calculus BC for most high school students. However, it seems to me that this topic is far more ...
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We'd like to set up a remedial math program in our church. To do so, we would need to hire at least two teachers who could design courses in middle school and high school math, and teach them. I'm a ...
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My department has eliminated its remedial mathematics courses and implemented a corequisite system. I did not participate in the original design, so I found myself unable to understand the new system. ...
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Many universities in USA ask their faculty to perform a "core assessment" where they evaluate (typically) freshman students, near the end of semester, on their understanding of the courses ...
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When grading problems on quizzes and exams, I often break them down into sub-problems, each worth a portion of the total points. I use rubrics to award partial credit for each sub-problem. However, ...
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I am looking for US average national or state grade distribution data for courses that are typically considered as math service courses: precalculus, calculus 1,2,3, linear algebra, differential ...
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I'm not a math teacher but I've stepped into the role to assist a small private school who lost their math teacher during the holidays (I'm a mechanical engineer by trade). The course is Algebra 1 (...
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A few years back I had a student attend the MASS semester at Penn State. It was a fantastic experience for my student and it certainly helped him find a place in graduate school and I would wager it ...

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