Mike Pierce

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Graphs for which a calculus student can reasonably compute the arclength

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Is it unusual for a math department not to have a mail/web server?

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When you inscribe a triangle in a circle in a triangle in a circle in a triangle ...

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How do you find Pythagorean triples that approximately correspond to a right triangle with a given angle?

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How should a student's inefficient calculation be pointed out?

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Why worry about commutativity but not associativity in The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic?

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Separating the roles of "teacher" and "assessor"

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How do you coach students who often make small errors?

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How can I learn to write better questions to test for conceptual understanding?

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Skipping "middle" Optional Arguments

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Do "other" trigonometric functions than Tan Sin Cos and their derivatives exist?

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Why do we miss 8 in the decimal expansion of 1/81, and 98 in the decimal expansion of 1/9801?

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Set builder notation: Colon or Vertical Line

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What is the TryExec field in .desktop files?

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Is it bad to resort to numerical examples to understand the idea behind a proof?

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Why do no students know to change the limits of integration when doing substitutions?

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Writing Fractions "Correctly"

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Is remaining single helpful in mathematical career?

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How do you coach students who often make small errors?

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Showing a function has exactly one zero with IVT and Rolle's Theorem

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When you inscribe a triangle in a circle in a triangle in a circle in a triangle ...

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What is an adjective for "weaker than weak"?

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Can two unknowns of two *unrelated* linear equations be determined?

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How can an isolated point be an open set?

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How are proofs formatted when the answer is a counterexample?

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What does this double sided arrow $\longleftrightarrow$ mean?

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?+?+?=30 (1,3,5,7,9,11,13,15)

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A formula to convert a counter-clockwise angle to clockwise angle with an offset

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Must subgroups sharing a common element be nested in each other?

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Where can I find public repositories of past math exams?

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What made the proof of the four color theorem on planes so hard?

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why $\tan x = \frac{\sin x}{\cos x}$? and not $\tan x$ = opposite/adjacent?

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Given $a+b+c$, Can I calculate $a^2+b^2+c^2$?

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What to do if all students lack prerequisites?

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Why am I getting $1$ instead of $e$?

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An example of evaluating an integral using partial fraction decomposition

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Why is multiplication taught using cross notation at first?

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Evaluating integrals geometrically, without using the fundamental theorem of calculus

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How to find the solutions to $\frac{11}{2} x - \cos x = 0$?

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Is there an equivalent word for '3/4?'

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