Timeline for How to deal with "how I compute this density?" questions
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| Nov 18, 2013 at 6:42 | comment | added | Brian M. Scott | @André: ... and use it to get wrong answers. Ain’t it the truth! | |
| Nov 15, 2013 at 12:49 | comment | added | user14972 | This is ostensibly a place to learn about fishing. We should teach people to fish. We may even want to guide people who want fish to realize that they want to learn to fish. People who just want a fish should visit a fishmonger. (and fishmongers should monger fish in a suitable market rather than in the halls of learning) | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 16:21 | vote | accept | Sergio Parreiras | ||
| Nov 14, 2013 at 8:15 | answer | added | Willie WongMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 6:09 | comment | added | Did | You mean, something like this or this? | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 4:12 | comment | added | André Nicolas | In teaching, I have often deliberately withheld some general formulas for a while, so that students can acquire concrete experience. Usually doesn't work. For example, even if I do not mention it for a while, they quickly find out about Bayes' Rule, and use it to get wrong answers. | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 3:49 | comment | added | Alexander Gruber Mod | Learning how to fish starts with catching one fish at a time. Sometimes a student needs to solve a few concrete examples to build up to the general case. | |
| Nov 14, 2013 at 3:45 | history | asked | Sergio Parreiras | CC BY-SA 3.0 |