Timeline for What is Math.SE?
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| Dec 25, 2014 at 4:37 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @Arkamis Sorry for the noise. My goal is sincere: to try to understand more precisely what it is about homework that leads CM to believe that this is not a site to "do math homework". | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 4:23 | comment | added | Emily | In fact, please take the discussion out of my answer, as tagging me or not makes no difference at all right here. | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 4:23 | comment | added | Emily | @BillDubuque If we're going to go down into mindless pedantry, please stop tagging me. It makes my phone buzz at 11:30 PM on Christmas Eve, and I'd really just prefer to finish this Christmas stout without debating the minutiae of crowdsourcing homework vs. collaborative learning. | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 4:21 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @Arkamis Ok, so if JDH's students are "doing math homework" then it seems that CM thinks this is not the site for that. I don't agree. But it's not clear that's really what CM means. That's why I asked for elaboration. | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 4:14 | comment | added | Emily | @BillDubuque Not really. It's still pretty clear: one is assigned by an instructor, one is not. | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 4:13 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @Arkamis So, to you, there is indeed, more to the distinction between the two than what you said above. Hence my question to CM. | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 4:10 | comment | added | Emily | @BillDubuque Yes, I am. And I encourage many students that I advise and tutor to do the same. And yet I encourage them to use the tool as a collaborative platform by expanding on the knowledge they have, and being clear about the knowledge they lack. I do not advise them to use the site just an exercise in re-typing the questions they have been given. | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 4:08 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @Arkamis Are you aware that some professors (e.g. JDH) encourage their students to use sites like MSE for assigments? | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 3:50 | comment | added | Emily | @BillDubuque I am not Carl Mummert, but I would wager that one is done for a grade in a class and prescribed by an instructor, one is not. This is among the least challenging distinctions to make. | |
| Dec 25, 2014 at 3:49 | comment | added | Bill Dubuque | @CarlMummert So what precisely is your distinction between "doing math" and "doing math homework"? | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 1:33 | comment | added | Carl Mummert | In my mind, the key point is that this is a site to do math, not a site to do math homework. The main challenge with homework is that the askers are often not doing math in the sense I understand the term, even if they are doing their math homework. | |
| May 12, 2013 at 15:46 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | Going to the driving range and hitting golf balls is learning. It may be undirected learning, and you may be learning bad habits, but it’s still learning. More important, I don’t see that desire as any less specific than a desire to learn how to hit your fairway woods better. It simply serves a different end — fun, or working off steam, or whatever. Finally, no one has suggested that this ‘driving range’ should be just for learning. | |
| May 12, 2013 at 14:03 | comment | added | Emily | @BrianM.Scott I respect that view, but I disagree in the sense that teaching and learning are more specific objectives. A metaphor: sometimes I want to go to the driving range to hit golf balls. This is not teaching/learning. This is just doing. Sometimes, however, I go to learn how to hit my fairway woods. This is doing and learning. If the driving range was just for learning, I would not be allowed to just go and whack at balls when I wanted to. | |
| May 11, 2013 at 23:11 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | Learning and teaching are no more (though also no less) individual objectives than is wanting to do mathematics in a more collegial fashion. And a question plus an answer in themselves constitute an interaction, irrespective of the quality (by whatever yardstick) of the question. | |
| May 11, 2013 at 16:03 | comment | added | Emily | @AlexBecker Very well; I rolled back to my original answer. | |
| May 11, 2013 at 16:02 | history | rollback | Emily | Rollback to Revision 1 | |
| May 11, 2013 at 15:52 | comment | added | Alex Becker | I would prefer that answers not address PSQs because there are already two very well-exposed questions specific to them. I included PSQs to motivate the question, so people wouldn't ask "why should I care?" and "where is this coming from?" | |
| May 11, 2013 at 15:44 | comment | added | Asaf Karagila Mod | Do you have a moral obligation to call the police when someone is robbing (or rubbing) a liquor store? Who is the police in this scenario, the lecturers? the university? the moderators? Do you agree that giving a ride to someone who just robbed a liquor store is against the law, assuming that you know what they did and they are not forcing you to help? | |
| May 11, 2013 at 15:40 | comment | added | Emily | @Lord_Farin I wasn't really sure if the question could be taken with or without the background material separated. So I branched it off into separate sections. Take from it what you will; the original question is very broad, and these points, by their inclusion in the OP, are still germane to "What is Math.SE?" | |
| May 11, 2013 at 15:07 | comment | added | Lord_Farin | +1 for the part assessing the actual question. As for the part of your answer on PSQ, I don't think this is the place for it. I liked your answer better when the last section wasn't there yet (regardless of my (dis/)agreement with it). | |
| May 11, 2013 at 14:56 | history | edited | Emily | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 1947 characters in body |
| May 11, 2013 at 14:48 | history | answered | Emily | CC BY-SA 3.0 |