How to be a good teacher is an undecidable problem

In this article, I describe my attempts to use various pedagogical techniques to teach college level mathematics and the particular problems that I ran into with each. I explain how I reached the conclusion that there is no best pedagogical approach. Rather each person's teaching methods should...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The College mathematics journal 2011-11, Vol.42 (5), p.1
1. Verfasser:	Flapan, Erica
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