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For a basic algebra class, given the rudimentary order-of-operations that looks like this: Parentheses Exponents & Radicals Multipli...

The "inverted classroom" (or as Wikipedia calls it, "Flip Teaching" ) is the idea that lectures can be watched (say, by ...

This weekend, the New York Times published an opinion piece by Andrew Hacker, emeritus professor of political science at Queens College in C...

Estimating the Mean Rank of a Deck of Cards by Sampling a Hand of 4. In my statistics class, near the end of my unit on confidence inter...

A Method of Reducing Algebraic Power Rules to Just Two Major Principles In a basic algebra class, we teach the "rules of exponents...

On the Frequency and Probability of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution Consider the following chart of amendments to the U.S. Constitut...

On Cutting Content to Prioritize Student Questions For the last few weeks in my summer courses, I've been frustrated that I'm c...