Yahoo Answers is great. But it's obvious people simply post their homework problems here. So, I guess I have several questions regarding the helping responsibility (Note: I'm a math major myself).
1) How do we help people with problems in areas like trig and algebra, while guiding them to the correct resources for later information?
2) How do we help people in more advance courses with very specific problems in fields? Obviously this becomes an ethical issue. The web has some good advance math resources, but not always for specific types of problems. I believe we should be able to help people some way, but we need to be able to help in a way for both the person to learn, and not overstep the boundaries of the student's responsibility.
Any general comments or discussion on this issue would be appreciated!
2007-08-12
17:25:19
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the_very_smart_guy
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Mathematics