Stack Exchange — matheducators.stackexchange.com

The content of matheducators.stackexchange.com (https://matheducators.stackexchange.com/), a Stack Exchange question-and-answer site, as published in the Stack Exchange Data Dump of April 2024 on the Internet Archive. The posts table holds 60,242 rows: 16,635 posts (3,765 questions, 12,592 answers, 135 tag wiki excerpts, 135 tag wikis, 7 posts of type 6 and 1 post of type 7) and 43,607 comments, written between 13 March 2014 and 31 March 2024. Beside it are 16,735 user accounts, 130,862 votes, 32,324 badges awarded, 230 tags, 40,019 post revisions and 1,325 links between posts. Every answer keeps the question it answers and every comment the post it was written on, so the threads can be rebuilt. The Internet Archive item describes the dump as anonymised; the votes table names the voter in only 95 rows.

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Analytics

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· graph.json

The full graph has 3,429 nodes; this view shows the 1,000-node sample the pipeline drew for display. Node size is centrality, colour is community.

3.4K
Nodes
9.8K
Edges
8.33e-04
Density
25
Components
-0.1492
Assortativity
3.2%
Reciprocity
1.8K
Bridges
Most central nodes
780.04259
5110.0423
110.04201
61660.03705
1140.03384
380.02392
32370.02334
8670.02334
12290.02246
640.02188
Content metrics

60,242 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

x scoreμ 2.891 ± 5.409
min -11max 114
x view countμ 1.6K ± 5K
min 31max 211K
x answer countμ 3.345 ± 3.307
min 0max 39
x comment countμ 2.622 ± 3.707
min 0max 38
x favorite count1.5% true
true 1.5%false 98.5%
10.0
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
11.0
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
studentslikemaththinkquestionanswerdonusecoursemathematicsstudentwayproblemtimeexampleknowcalculusgoodnumberschoolpointproblemsclassalgebranumbersneedfracworkdifferentfindteachingwantfunctionthingsrightrealquestionspeoplemathematicalproofunderstandlevelhighteachlearningbooklearnbettersetexamples
Topic clusters

Topic 0

triangle
angle
line
point
circle
graph
geometry
plane

Topic 1

comment
answer
question
post
edit
link
vote
downvote

Topic 2

calculus
course
calc
semester
class
student
book
physics

Topic 3

integral
derivative
function
differential
integration
equation
series
ode

Topic 4

function
domain
limit
notation
continuity
continuous
define
definition

Topic 5

thank
edit
answer
suggestion
link
comment
post
question

Topic 6

math
mathematic
student
school
learn
contest
people
high

Topic 7

math
mathematic
education
question
school
mathematics
research
teach

Topic 8

probability
distribution
statistic
win
deviation
door
random
variance

Topic 9

latex
slide
video
tablet
clicker
software
use
document

Topic 10

student
school
question
high
course
ask
good
thank

Topic 11

number
negative
magnitude
digit
operation
zero
multiply
multiplication
Show all 29 topics

Topic 12

proof
prove
theorem
logic
write
mathematician
formal
student

Topic 13

fraction
multiplication
number
addition
denominator
division
add
simplify

Topic 14

grade
homework
student
exam
test
work
quiz
assessment

Topic 15

think
people
thing
argument
word
agree
english
natural

Topic 16

induction
set
prove
axiom
proof
true
statement
element

Topic 17

prime
polynomial
factorization
root
number
factor
division
square

Topic 18

textbook
book
edition
publisher
text
read
student
look

Topic 19

game
play
math
number
kid
puzzle
strategy
child

Topic 20

quadratic
root
factor
polynomial
equation
factoring
formula
number

Topic 21

logarithm
exponential
log
function
base
natural
growth
logarithmic

Topic 22

matrix
linear
determinant
eigenvalue
eigenvector
vector
row
algebra

Topic 23

linear
algebra
course
matrix
book
text
study
axler

Topic 24

student
class
teacher
know
ask
teach
help
way

Topic 25

book
math
read
mathematic
mathematics
textbook
mathematical
gardner

Topic 26

student
learn
ambiguous
people
think
answer
expert
example

Topic 27

language
piaget
definition
word
rule
mathematic
mathematical
learn

Topic 28

desmos
red
animation
graphic
slide
visualization
urn
paint
Top hashtags
#1154
#2133
#376
#c0047
#0a037
#434
#v31
#523
#614
#712
#911
#00f8
#116
#applications6
#c6
#page_scan_tab_contents6
#105
#141005
#85
#customerreviews5

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
stackexchange-matheducators-stackexchange-com
Authors
Stack Exchange, Inc.
Year
2024
Source paper
Stack Exchange Data Dump
License
CC BY-SA 3.0 / 4.0 (by contribution date) (CC-BY-SA-3.0 AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
Records
64,140
Nodes
3,429
Edges
9,787 (directed)
Nodes are
user (Stack Exchange account)
Edges are
answer collaboration (A answered B's question)
Attributes
nodes have attributes; edges have attributes
Text corpus
question titles, post bodies, comment text, tag names
Languages
en
Collected
2014/2024 (2010s, 2020s)
Tasks
From the graph: link prediction, community detection
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://archive.org/details/stackexchange link checked
Original files as received
The source files, unconverted, kept for reference: mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-09, 24.9 MB across 1 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json. For use, start with the data package below.
Data package
Version 1.0.0 of this dataset as an ECHO Data Package: posts (60,242 rows), users (16,735 rows), x_votes (130,862 rows), x_badges (32,324 rows), x_tags (230 rows), x_post_history (40,019 rows), x_post_links (1,325 rows).
Structure
Temporal (timestamped), Node attributes, Text, Threaded conversations

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@misc{stackexchange_2024,
  title     = {Stack Exchange Data Dump},
  author    = {{Stack Exchange, Inc.}},
  year      = {2024},
  month     = {apr},
  publisher = {Internet Archive},
  url       = {https://archive.org/details/stackexchange}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Stack Exchange, Inc. (2024). Stack Exchange — matheducators.stackexchange.com [Data set]. https://stackexchange-matheducators.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Stack Exchange, Inc. Stack Exchange — matheducators.stackexchange.com. 2024, stackexchange-matheducators.echo.directory/.

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