I can understand giving hints. But seriously, you are doing these students a huge disservice by doing the problems for them.
Are you just so helpful as to be blinded to this fact, or are you just so unappreciated that any measure of feeling important is too much to resist?
Give hints, not answers.
2007-10-11 20:14:20 · 11 answers · asked by Michael 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
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2007-10-12 12:53:49 · answer #1 · answered by MarkG 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It depends. If the question is not very hard but the example is not familiar to the student,I sometimes give them the same problem using their world for the example. Identical methods to solve both problems, but mine applies to their life so i'm sure they can figure that out, somthing they do already and don't known it.
I believe some of the kids do not have parents to help them with their schoolwork. for such kids explaning how to do it really helps them. Else what would they gain by never seeing the solution? Often the students have several similar assignments and getting them off the ground on one will help them with the rest.
I also see wrong answers and that it idiotic so I correct the situation.
I got a MS in Math + Computer Science summa *** laude but I had to cheat my way thru 1 unit First Aid and French. So far I have had no need for French and ittle by little I know understand all the terms in First Aid.
So some classes are necessary, but they are not prt of the students core interests. I mean we use calculators and computers for a lot of the stuff they are asking about.
If I google for something I once knew quite well, I know if I found the right answers on line. A student does not have that level of confidence. There is so much stuff out ther they could not get anything done by googling .
So live and let live, nocrime is committed.. if they want to cheat they will find a way to do it. If they want to learn they may be encouraged by the help they get and get the burning desire to know the stuff for them selves.
2007-10-12 20:21:36 · answer #2 · answered by realme 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The purpose is open for discussion I'm sure but to rail this as a disservice? When we help the student over a part of the harder things the student gleans from his/her insight to the problem. If the student sat in the dark blindly with no avenue of advancement would this be giving them an advantage. Contrary to popular belief i find the answering of questions and the working of homework a very progressive way of distributing the abilities which are at hand. If that ability is Molar Mass so be it. If its integrated Physics then so be it...When it becomes a world where helping is a no-no then it will be a day of disservice to the next generation. AS for me and my generation (I'm sure I'm quite removed from yours) we found that teaching and loaning our time to be. a very honorable thing to do. The fact that a student asks for a single question worked out in detail is no problem here and If i could get 5% of the students to spend that much time even worrying about it would make this fellow a happy man...So when you see me give an answer to a girl named Zippy for her stated homework in math and her factoring is, well not as good as others, just let this slip along your shoulder and fall to the floor . Don't aquire a chip for the non-chipable action of help in motion. Its a positve direction for the future..
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2007-10-11 22:48:15 · answer #3 · answered by Edesigner 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When a question is obviously taken from a list of questions or a set assignment, I do not give help. Most folks here don't, I've noticed. People start to get sacrastic.
When a student does not understand a process, it doesn't matter what the question is. To the best of my ability I will explain the question and the process by which to effect an answer.
Some do list a series of steps without explaining anything- I do not like this; were I asking the question, these "answers" wouldn't help at all.
Plz forgive my direct answer of this question. I couldn't think of a good way to hint at a response.
2007-10-11 20:25:16 · answer #4 · answered by BotanyDave 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-14 15:20:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People give answers to homework questions because students ask for them. If they wanted hints then they would ask for hints. You can not force people to learn if they don't want to.
In some cases providing the answer and an explaination of how to reach the answer can help them to learn (assuming the question has been attempted). Which is why many text books contain the answers to their test problems in the back of the book.
I answer question in order to help and also to refresh my memory of things I may have learnt years ago. I'm not going to take responsibility for the questioners education, they must do that themselves.
2007-10-11 21:10:08 · answer #6 · answered by Mike 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't and it bothers me to think the some people want to take the easy way out. You can't take the easy way out in life. When these people go for a job are the gonna write Yahoo answers to help them out on their jobs. Imagine if doctors did that, ask questions in Yahoo answers to diagnose someones sickness. Scary to say the least.
2007-10-11 20:23:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Why not? I get to exercise my brain, they get to do whatever they wanted to do (which obviously wasn't homework) - a win-win situation. The parents did the students a disservice for not giving them the will to learn. Their problem, not mine (and probably not yours).
2007-10-11 21:07:43 · answer #8 · answered by mis42n 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
If they have tried their best and still cannot find the answer, we ought to help them. BUT, if they just post a whole lot of question WITHOUT trying, then let's teach them a lesson.
2007-10-12 00:55:53 · answer #9 · answered by Mortred 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I give them wrong answers.
That'll teach the little buggers!
(just kidding).
2007-10-11 20:17:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋