As a reply to both the guest and HELPMEEE
To the guest: There's much less traffic in the forum, and like 10% are of the .uk sites. I don't know about other educational programs, but here in New York, we have a thing called "Internet", where we can go onto "Google Classroom" to ask questions, and we have a revolutionary thing called "e-mail". For some, we have something called "Mobile phone" with "SMS messaging". Sound familiar?
Oh yeah i forgot, there's something called "phone numbers" and we can call them from "phones" and "landlines".
What you are suggesting is that outside NY these things don't exist.
I understand you are a teacher and I am a student myself. Yes, NYC was caught off guard. We scrambled for 2 weeks figuring stuff out. But we realized that there was internet and we could communicate over it.
As I would say to all teachers, "Thanks for educating our next generation", but to say that contact with peers being detrimental to learning is, no offense, ignorant. I'm currently learning NY Algebra II at grade 6, when people do it in 8/9/10th grade. Several of my classmates are learning same or similar topics.
There are many resources on the web- khan academy, wikipedia, even some AoPS features are free. Some students are deciding not to use these free resources and instead, they are cheating and not putting any thought into the work.
You say that you found a question you made on here? That means your students are not learning what you are teaching them.
You say that your students would have told each other answers? That just states that your students are cheating BEFORE this.
The purpose of this forum was to discuss hard questions, like i said earlier, not to be taking advantage of the members like "oh hey i realized you like to do math so here's my homework pls do it".
I apologize for the rudeness.
To HELPMEEE: True, but if you just told someone exactly what to do and they ask you, "wait what do we do". What would you do? The instructions are still posted. Well, I offered to explain. I started doing it step-by step. What happens next? No reply.
No this is not an isolated incident.
Even before the coronavirus, I have been on this site as a guest, and have recieved the same attitude from a lot of people.
Yes, we might never know their true intentions. But we can tell that the people who are ignorant to your process and seek the answer have intentions of "oh well look the answer's there let me just copy it"
RARELY have I seen a person say "thank you i understand" or "wait i don't understand this" after putting genuine thought.
I have about 80 or so answers, and like i've encountered 5 or less like that.
There are people who have "PLS DUE TMRW" and stuff like that, which mean's its HOMEWORK that they probably didn't ask a teacher or do beforehand.
Of course, people rush in to help since they are nice.
Then you have the people who make no effort to check their question. I had a question where it literally said:
If *blah blah blah* cannot exceed [blank] then how much can he buy if each costs [blank]
or something like that. It just shows the laziness of these people.
Sure maybe this post will make people scared and for that you can give me as much downvotes as you want.
Then you have the people who title their question as AIME, which we are like "Oh yay a challenge" then it says 2+2= what?
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