Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
Some other possible names for this site:
Mathematics Education
Mathematics Teaching and Learning
Proposal: Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education
Some other possible names for this site:
Mathematics Education
Mathematics Teaching and Learning
Edit on 2/1: For reference, here are all of the proposed names so far:
Mathematics Learning, Studying, and Education (the current name)
Mathematics Education
Mathematics Teaching and Learning
Mathematics Teaching
Mathematics Teaching and Pedagogy
Teaching Mathematics
Didactics of Mathematics
Pedagogy of Mathematics
Mathematics Pedagogy (which I am proposing just now)
My opinion is still that "Mathematics Teaching" and "Mathematics Education" are the best of these. As I explain below, I don't like the words "learning" or "studying" in (1) or (3). I would be reasonably happy with (5), (8), or (9). I don't like (6) because "Teaching Mathematics Stack Exchange" has an odd ring to it, and I don't like (7) because I think "didactics" is a somewhat obscure word. (It is a roughly synonym for "pedagogy", but has less than 10% as many Google hits.)
Original Post: The goal for the name should be to distinguish it from Mathematics Stack Exchange and Math Overflow. If this site becomes at all popular (i.e. visible on Google), it's going to be a constant problem that students post mathematics questions to this site, which will then need to be migrated to Math Stack Exchange.
In this context, I think the best name would be something like "Mathematics Teaching" or "Mathematics Education". I think it's very dangerous to include the word "learning" -- not because I disagree that learning is an important thing to discuss, but because including the word "learning" will have a practical, detrimental effect on the site.
How about Teaching Mathematics so that the emphasis is on the teaching?
I vote for Mathematics Teaching and Learning.
How about Didactics of Mathematics or something similar?
Do there already exist stackexchange sites (or proposals) on teaching and learning in some other area? If so, maybe ask them about good ways to phrase the name.
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Looking through the Area 51 list, I got these:
How about Learning Mathematics?
After all, I think it is about learning/understanding/discovering mathematics by students, teachers, educators and simply mathematically curious people. My apologies if I am bringing more confusion to the topic.