Daniel R. Collins

Brooklyn, NY

http://www.madmath.com

Lecturer in Mathematics and Computer Science at CUNY/Kingsborough.

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How to respond to "unfair to write English" comments?

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What are the Laws of Rational Exponents?

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Why is computer science hard?

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Is changing some words plagiarism?

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What are the best practices for giving online tests?

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Does any country have free college & open admissions?

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What's the word for an unused, enclosed space between two apartment buildings?

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What's the point of learning equivalence relations?

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Should I send a letter of recommendation directly to a student?

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A word for a military unit still functioning?

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Why did I receive a negative response from a professor when emailing about course content and prerequisites of a course I am considering taking?

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How to deal with a very weak student?

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Tutoring is depressing because my students are struggling too much with my exercises. What do I do?

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Is it appropriate to give a student a "negative grade" (fewer than zero points) for a small portion of the overall grade?

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What should I do if I am strongly burned out at work, but resigning now would cause problems for my coworkers and burn bridges?

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What if a student doesn't understand a question because of differences in dialect?

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My university requires that I take attendance. How should I treat students who arrive late to class?

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Can I think of Algebra like this?

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Why doesn't the academic year start on January first?

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Lecturer in a course I'm TA'ing refuses to give feedback on student assignments

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What's a replacement for "married couples" in combinatorics problems?

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What are some counter-intuitive results in mathematics that involve only finite objects?

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Moderation strike

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Should I tell students that it's my first time teaching the course?

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What should I do if my advisor is forcing me to vote on a specific candidate in IEEE elections?

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Should I tell my manager that I'm not able to work on the weekend for religious reasons?

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Show that $(2,0,4) , (4,1,-1) , (6,7,7)$ form a right triangle

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Why do you need to study a subject at a university level to teach it at a high school?

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How much steel armor can you wear and still be able to swim?

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Is it harmful to use the word "Cancel"?

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Is my thesis title academically and technically correct starting with the words 'Study the'?

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Is it normal/ethical for student grades to be assigned according to quotas?

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First-time teaching PhD students make course assignment way too demanding for a new lecture

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Are MOOCs putting teaching professors out of a job?

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OD&D said it could be played with 20-50 players and one referee. How was that expected to work and still be fun?

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We are graduating the updated button styling for vote arrows

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Upset by male classmates openly comparing female students according to physical appearance

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Was my student being disrespectful by using shouting language in her email to me?

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What are strategies for minimizing student questions during exams?

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Plagiarism and exclusion from a master's program?

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