You say that like you're doing us a favor?
What happened to the promise:Starting tomorrow two changes:
1. One topic per day.
2. Two questions related to the topic per day.
What happened to the promise:
"From now on, I post questions on Tuesday only. " .......... post #14
That was a good idea.I have decided to post no more than 3 math questions on my days off from work. In so doing, I do not have to rush through my solution steps making silly mistakes and as a result ending up with the wrong answer ... The goal is to learn each section well, to become very informed about what it is the chapter/section is teaching ...
Your plans are yours and should not be crticized as being personal and therefore possibly idiosyncratic.From now on, I will only use this site to help me with word problems, any and all word problems. Jesus! I cannot post a simple question about turning points or end behavior of polynomial functions without everyone criticizing the words of Sullivan and/or my effort at trying to solve problems learned LONG AGO. Come with me on a LONG JOURNEY into the world of word problems: algebra, geometry, trigonometry, college algebra, precalculus, and calculus. We begin with algebra word problems. Yes, I will show my effort. Good day.
That was a good idea.
? It still is.
As your plans are fluid, I think you ought to return to post #1 (partially quoted above) and then stick with that.
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Your plans are yours and should not be crticized as being personal and therefore possibly idiosyncratic.
Nor is what I am about to say meant in an unfriendly way..
One thing that math teaches is the importance of exact formulation of a problem. It is of course a skill that is important outside of math (in law, for example). Moreover, many students have difficulty in solving problems because they have not extracted the relevant information from a problem. Our concern about wording is, in part, simply trying to determine what the problem is really about. Also in part, it is to teach students to extract the full meaning from the information given. In both cases, the exact and complete language is vital. If Sullivan is sloppy and says, for example, "discrete" when what is meant is "continuous," it is a bad text. If Sullivan is careful but you are not paying strict attention to all the words used by Sullivan, then you are not taking full advantage of the text you paid for.
... I will not post math questions for the rest of May ...
What is your word?I am not doing anymore math until next week. I want to keep my word.
What is your word?
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