also, www.purplemath.com the sparknotes math guides and esp. hotmath.com (which is the closest to what you mean)
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Amy Bruckman <amy.bruck...@cc.gatech.edu>wrote: > Joe, > > You might want to look at The Math Forum, http://mathforum.org > > In particular, check out the Problem of the Week and Ask Dr. Math. Answers > to Problem of the Week and questions to Ask Dr. Math are answered by > volunteers, who try to guide the students to understanding rather than > handing them answers. They have an impressive architecture to triage > questions. When the perfect answer has already been written, it gets sent. > New questions are sent to live humans. > > Their work is really impressive. So I would start your research with the > question: What can I do even better than Math Forum? > > Hope this helps! > > -- Amy > > On Nov 23, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Joe Corneli wrote: > > So far, the best phrasing I've come up with is: "What stands in the > > way of building and supplying low-cost, high-quality mathematics > > education via the internet?" > > > The art of encyclopedia-building doesn't seem to carry over directly > > to education. This should be of fairly general concern (the Wikimedia > > Foundation's mission is about developing and disseminating educational > > content). > > > I think there's a knowledge gap in there, maybe more than one. It's > > much easier for me to think about "engineering solutions" than it is > > to precisely specify a research problem question!! In particular, I'm > > thinking about > > > (a) building interactive textbooks that work for self-guided learners > > (b) building technologies to support live tutorials over the web > > (c) building infrastructure to help in developing good survey articles > > or similar content > > > The faculty here might want me to "pick one", but this is hard for me > > to do because I see each of these three approaches as being part of > > the puzzle. Asking how well one of them works in absence of the other > > is a bit like asking how well a fish can breathe in the absence of > > water. > > > So maybe the "research question" is about asking: What is the family > > resemblance of (a)-(c)? How do they work together as a system? Or > > maybe the question is about whether a given implementation of (a)-(c) > > shows any promise? > > > I seem to be struggling to switch from a hacking-oriented way of > > thinking about things to a research-oriented way of thinking about > > things. I'd appreciate some feedback from those of you in a position > > to offer advice on these matters. > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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