Timeline for How to ask a homework question
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| Aug 7 at 3:09 | history | edited | Lucenaposition | CC BY-SA 4.0 | deleted 3 characters in body |
| Jun 25, 2021 at 4:51 | history | rollback | postmortes | Rollback to Revision 17 | |
| Jun 25, 2021 at 4:51 | history | rollback | postmortes | Rollback to Revision 16 | |
| Jun 25, 2021 at 1:55 | history | edited | no ai please | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 169 characters in body |
| Nov 15, 2018 at 11:15 | history | edited | Lee David Chung Lin | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Update the link to the actual list |
| Jan 15, 2018 at 13:09 | comment | added | GEdgar | +1 "You should ask your teacher whether asking a homework question here is appropriate before posting your question." | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:37 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/ with https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Mar 16, 2017 at 16:37 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/ with https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Aug 9, 2014 at 19:19 | history | edited | Ilmari Karonen | CC BY-SA 3.0 | remove suggestion to use the deprecated [homework] tag, per http://meta.math.stackexchange.com/questions/14981/homework-tag-should-be-deprecated |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 14:46 | history | edited | Willie WongMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 13 characters in body |
| Feb 13, 2014 at 14:05 | history | edited | Willemien | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added how to reference (short expansion) |
| Jan 25, 2013 at 18:55 | comment | added | Makoto Kato | @WillieWong I had read and completely understood them before I posted the above comments. | |
| Jan 25, 2013 at 17:11 | comment | added | Willie Wong Mod | @Makoto: I assume you've eventually read the two sentences immediately following the ones you quoted? Seriously man, I sometimes wonder about your reading abilities. | |
| Oct 31, 2012 at 0:04 | history | edited | joriki | CC BY-SA 3.0 | adapted quote to change in the original |
| Oct 30, 2012 at 23:56 | history | edited | joriki | CC BY-SA 3.0 | grammar |
| Aug 6, 2012 at 3:15 | comment | added | Makoto Kato | Here are the reasons. 1) If a full answer is not given, many members of this site may not understand the solution. 2) An asker can always skip the proof if he thinks it's harmful. 3) Dishonest people can always ask a homework question as a non-homework question. 4) I don't see why we should differentiate homework from non-homework. If giving a full solution is harmful to a homework asker, I think it's the same for a non-homework asker. 5) I think the main aim of this site is to build Q&A database. I think good and canonical answers are desired. | |
| Aug 6, 2012 at 3:14 | comment | added | Makoto Kato | @WillieWong "Providing an answer that doesn't help a student learn is not in the student's own best interest, and if a solution complete enough to be copied verbatim and handed in is given immediately, it will encourage more people to use the site as a free homework service." I assume that you are objecting to giving a full answer to a homework question. I disagree for several reasons. To be continued. | |
| Apr 9, 2011 at 18:41 | vote | accept | Willie Wong | ||
| Mar 29, 2011 at 14:12 | comment | added | Mitch | Is the response then to a 'malformed' question, to give a link to this page? | |
| Mar 29, 2011 at 14:11 | history | edited | Mitch | CC BY-SA 2.5 | added a paragraph about quoting if it's cut and paste |
| Mar 19, 2011 at 1:41 | history | edited | Akhil MathewMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 | grammar |
| Mar 18, 2011 at 22:50 | history | edited | Carl Mummert | CC BY-SA 2.5 | rm 'aggressive' |
| Mar 17, 2011 at 19:45 | comment | added | Willie Wong Mod | @Didier: on the other hand, I am not sure if that is an item that is specific to homework. Maybe you should ask that as a new discussion on Meta? It would probably have to go under an FAQ item about "How to include images in questions" with the heading "When to include images and when not to include images". | |
| Mar 17, 2011 at 19:39 | comment | added | Willie Wong Mod | @Didier: I agree with you. In dealing with office hours and tutoring, what is often very helpful is to ask the student to state the definition and to state the question to be solved in his own words. The fact that sometimes this jump start is all that's required to let the student come up with an answer on his own still amuses me. | |
| Mar 17, 2011 at 18:40 | comment | added | Did | Is there a position of the powers-that-be at math.SE about the inclusion in questions, as images, of pages and pages of printed documents? For a recent example, see math.stackexchange.com/questions/27602. This modus operandi seems to go against the principle that some work should be put into the question and I, for one, would very much like to see it specifically discouraged, but I do not know your opinion on this. | |
| Mar 17, 2011 at 18:37 | history | edited | Matt E | CC BY-SA 2.5 | Minor grammatical fix |
| Mar 17, 2011 at 16:50 | history | edited | Mike Spivey | CC BY-SA 2.5 | corrected spelling |
| Mar 17, 2011 at 15:21 | history | edited | Arturo Magidin | CC BY-SA 2.5 | minor corrections/rewording |
| Mar 17, 2011 at 11:50 | history | edited | Willie WongMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 | added 2451 characters in body |
| S Mar 17, 2011 at 10:00 | history | answered | Willie WongMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 | |
| S Mar 17, 2011 at 10:00 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki |