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What prompted you to try something new? “We understand, but how will it be asked in the test?” This is the question that was posed to me time and again in 2019 when I started lecturing a module in ...

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It's getting tougher to assess how much university students have learnt. In his work as a Mathematical Statistics lecturer, Michael von Maltitz has tried a new way of getting students to learn, and of ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. For many high school students returning to class, it may seem like geometry and trigonometry were created by the Greeks as a form ...

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