Its obvious people are posting homework problems on yahoo answers. Why not just look it up in the class textbook, listen in class, or God forbid actually think about it? More importantly, how trustworthy are these answers you are getting from people who don't have anything better to do other than answer your homework problems?
2006-12-14 06:48:58 · 9 answers · asked by pliu428 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
There is nothing wrong with helping kids with homework. I suspect that many of these kids do listen in class and try to get information from the textbook and think about it, but I know from experience that kids can become totally overwhelmed by academics. Students have always needed and asked for help with homework. When I was in school the only way I could get help was from a cousin who lived not far from me, so I would walk to her house if I was stuck on something. I had the good fortune to have been able to help my kids with their homework, which I did whenever they needed it. Now I help my grandkids with their homework when they ask. I still occasionally help my daughters, who have all finished at least one degree, and one is now working on a graduate degree.
People who ask for help on here believe that there is some benefit in it, and hope to use this site to get their work done. It makes a small diference overall in their school life. Maybe for some of them it relieves a very stressful situation. Some kids obvioiusly have no one at home who can help them, so they come here. There is lots of research to suggest that kids who get help and support with homework do much better overall in school and are better able to cope with school. Ideally that help should come from mom and dad, but that is not always possible.
Additionally, many people who ask for help on here will remember later in life that there was a time when a stranger helped them and was kind to them, and often that sort of kindness gets paid back. One of the problems with our society is that there is not enough kindness.
I do agree that there are some people who deliberately mislead kids with their answers, or give a mean-spirited answer. My question would be, how mature is an adult who does that? Anyone asking serious questions on here does need to be careful about accepting answers at face value.
Final thought .... it takes a village to raise a child. Families are very stressed these days. We are all responsible to help young people to the best of our ability. This is one way we can do it.
2006-12-14 23:53:26 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
I don't have a problem with it. I have done some teaching, and I can tell when a student doesn't know what he's talking about.
I'm not a math teacher, but when I was in school (especially high school) we had to show all our work for each math problem. It was not good enough to write in the answer. So if a student gets algebra or geometry or calc answers here, I don't think it would do any good unless they could show all the work.
No matter what the class, if a student gets all his answers here or from someone else, at some point it would catch up with him and he would start failing anyway.
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2006-12-14 08:52:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it is perfectly acceptable to ask for help on a problem, such as math problems because sometimes the books just aren't very clear. There is a big difference between asking for help to solve a problem and asking for the answer.
But, asking for the answer to a more nonfactual question is cheating as far as I'm concerned. Read the books, ask questions and stop txting friends in class and pay attention.
Also you should never trust what you read by strangers on the Internet. One of the first rules I learned way back when in elementary school, as well as to not give out private information.
Example: My brother copied and pasted a web page report about a president (This was at least 10 years ago) for an elementary school project. That web page had about a 70 or 80% error rate in its facts and needless to say my brother didn't do so well, not to mention our family still gets a good laugh out of it today.
2006-12-14 07:02:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
I don't have a problem with some help like giving topics for speeches and things like that..my thinking is this...how many of these students plan to be doctors and teachers one day..it is true that some books make the answers almost impossible to find and it's impossible to find math answers on the internet.. I think however that people are not TRYING to find the answer, they just know this site is here and they can key in the ? and someone will tell them..how it's helping them on test,,I will never know.. The scary part is that I have seen nursing students on here asking questions about nursing plans and treatment of patients..now that is scary...I hope to God I stay healthy and never run across a doctor or nurse that took homework answers from YA instead of their brain
2006-12-14 08:15:05 · answer #4 · answered by chilover 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yea people do it all the time especially for math hw...i dont trust it tho so i look up stuff on my own
2006-12-14 06:58:29 · answer #5 · answered by Sweetheart88 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I`m smart in school i just having to think about math and whatnot outside of the school grounds. So why shouldn`t we?
2006-12-14 06:57:19 · answer #6 · answered by rhiiiwind 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋
yeah, it's funny actually because it is quite easy to post a response that seems very legitimate although it's bogus. I've actually done it and the person took my advice. Then, I told them to think for themselves.
2006-12-14 09:48:09 · answer #7 · answered by danika1066 4 · 1⤊ 4⤋
why would you?my opinion is dont because people could screw arounjd with you
2006-12-14 07:03:14 · answer #8 · answered by ฿ęŊ 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
NO.
2006-12-14 07:23:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋