{teaching} is for questions addressing issues related to the use of TeX and teaching.
Questions tagged [teaching]
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How to encourage TeX as a homework medium
I have been trying to encourage my students to use TeX in writing up homework, especially in early math major courses, like intro to proofs, where the typesetting is not too arduous. I have had very limited success with students taking it up. Does…
Johnson-Leung
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A LaTeX course for intermediate users stuck on the learning curve
Background: This question is aimed primarily at those of us who have been using LaTeX for quite some time but feel like they do not have a very "principled understanding" of it even though they would like to (i.e. those of us who want to go from…
Daniel W. Farlow
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Starting point for creating tests, quizzes, worksheets for teachers
I would like to make some nice looking worksheets, tests, and quiz papers for my wife's classroom. I see her and other teachers typing up a simple quiz and then wasting a lot of time fighting Word to get it to look decent. TeX seems to be a…
Curtis
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Resources and advice for teaching LaTeX
I am thinking of organising an introductory course on LaTeX for my colleagues in the philosophy department. I'm wondering what kind of resources are available for teaching LaTeX. And a related question, what are the best ways to motivate interest in…
Seamus
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Is there an online "coding platform" for teaching LaTeX
I have been looking for an online "coding platform" for teaching LaTeX but I have not found anything that does what I need. By a "coding platform" what I mean is a web-based system where:
you can write tutorials on how to use LaTeX, possibly with…
user30471
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Introducing LaTeX
In my college, there isn't any course where you can learn anything about LaTeX, so I've been thinking on doing a little workshop or seminar in order to give other students and teachers a chance at trying it out and learning the basics. I'd like your…
fabikw
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Challenging exercises in LaTeX
I'm in process of teaching certain skills related to research in graduate school to my juniors. One of them is using LaTeX for writing reports, articles, presentations etc. Students so far have been comfortable with editing existing .tex files. For…
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LaTeX for elementary school mathematics
I would like to make some math worksheets for elementary school children. In particularly, I would like to have an array of simple additions and multiplications on each page. The idea is to build a diagnostic test of the children's ability.
I need…
Placidia
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How to create quizzes with macqtex?
I found a beautiful example of a powerful quiz that was created using LaTeX: http://www.tug.org/texshowcase/macqtexDemo.pdf
This example uses JavaScript inside a PDF document. Unfortunately, there is no source available. Does anyone know where I can…
Physicsworks
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Little complicated representation of fraction with ProfCollege
Is it possible to produce representation of this fraction with ProfCollegepackage ?
My MWE :
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage{ProfCollege}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
Simple representation of fraction :
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Aviroum
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