Loriann Carrigan: Think about it for a moment.The section is called Homework HELP.What kind of questions are people supposed to post in it?I don't like it when people say "I have to write an essay about tea leaves. Any informational websites." or something which is asking you to do the homework/research for them. But the questions which say "I don't get this. Can you help me? 4x + 5 = 9". If they say that they have worked on it, but still don't get it, that's fine.And the kids won't learn anything?If they don't know the final answer or how to do it, then they'll just get frustrated and fail....Show more
Len Bormes: i agree with you. I don't mind giving guidance but I refuse to do someone's homework.
Lourie Mcroberts: Both the question and unfortrunagtely all the answers display an unfortunate lack of appreciation of the basic approach towards Yahoo Answers.It is basically providing a venue for opening up conversion between;people.Mutual dialogue has been lack! ing inthe modern society. tothe extent that we are even nervous in talking to the passenger next to us in the bus over such innocent matters as the vagaries of weather. At home also radioes and tvs monopolise our attention and even when visitors come they also in many cases join us in this and the dialogue goes overboard.Homework requests get on our nerves basically on account of this tendency to keep oneself to oneself. When in a more communicative past age the talk was about the weather it was more or less pointless except as an opening for a dialogue. A child approaching you with a homework problem may even know the answ3er(or alternatively have access to enough guides for the purpose) and when it approaches you with it ,it is because he wants to converse with you. He is not testing you and even if you go wrong he is not ,to use a school term,fail you.I used totake initiative in asking my children if they had any homework problems as it is a good opening to know about t! heir schooling etc.Now the question about selection as Best An! swers. Many of my answers have been selected as such and the personal note the askers add tothe selection is sometimes touching. In any case one does not approach YA for the marks but basically to satisfy our urge to get in touch with our fellow beings. I am no omniscient.However, I do not leave any question but try to look into resources which may contain the information and lo and behold it is considered as the Best Answer. A fleeting thought sometimes does enter my mind that the asker him/herself could have taken the trouble toconsult the websites but then remember that even if he/she could the very approach to YA might have been an urge to speak with somebody.Sometimes the questions are almost childish even though coming from adult.Let us all help;each other in maintaining this dialogue.I have a gutt feeling that this rectuance to converse is a sign of the modern age of keeping oneself to oneself. I pity the families sitting round the dinner tables not talking to each! other but watching the tv and just eating mechanically. I shudder to place myself in the position of the housewife who might have taken extra pains and earnestly hoped some remarks,even adverse remarks, passed onthe preparations....Show more
Kellie Waycott: Many have complained to Yahoo about it and they will do nothing. Everyone wants answers and you you try to explain how to do a problem you will never get best answer. I just stay away. If you answer without giving an answer you have a good chance of being reported.§
Ardell Luy: I hang in the astronomy section and there are hundreds of homework questins there every day. I only give links to sites that have information to find their own answers. I refuse to do the work for them. That really makes some kids angry too. They just want the answer so they get an A and dont learn anything at all.
Cornelius Thornborrow: That's what i don't get sometimes; some people ask YA! users to do their essays, math! problems, etc. and that's ridiculous. So i agree too, i don't like the! idea that some people come on here and post their homework questions or asking people to their essays when they need to do it themselves; i don't mind helping them in terms of providing resources and tips too, but it gets very tedious to see some people posting their homework and essays on here.
Nikki Sypult: As a public school teacher, I do not believe in giving students homework that they don't know how to do. If they have the knowhow to use this site, or similar ones, on the internet to find out how to do their work, or even to get the answers, I don't see that as cheating: I see it as research. We realize that when we send work home, there's no way of proving who did it anyway. I've recognized my students' parents handwriting on the papers they bring back the next day. So the only point of homework is practice, and finding out the answer however they find it out and writing it down is practice. I attended a workshop on helping every student succeed this summer, a! nd the leaders of the workshop advocated putting correctly spelled words and math facts & formula, and science and history facts up on the walls all over the room so that students could copy them. The concept of school isn't that it should be a continuous test, and it isn't to get every student to memorize everything on the planet and regurgitate it back, either: the idea is for students to learn. If they read it on the wall or on the computer screen, it's going into their brains, and if they write it down somewhere, it goes into their brains again. What's wrong with that? Nobody can memorize all the information there is anyway - what we're teaching is how to find the information you need, how to critically think about the information, and how to correlate that information with other information. Teachers should be like coaches, only coaches of academic stuff. A soccer or wrestling coach wouldn't have members of the team go home and do something over and over that they hadn! 't learned how to do yet, would he? The coach would keep working on the! skill with the players until they could do it right themselves, and then have them keep practicing that. Well, that's also what we should be doing as teachers....Show more
Robt Betker: Some people can't figure out the answers to there homework, so what it's not like they could possibly have the people on yahoo answers do all their homework
Fred Caminita: I'm one that need help, and yes i do want the answer. Also, i learn cause with the answer they always work the problem. Its a form of cheating but they sure can't take the test for me, and thats the only thing that matters really. All A's in the topic radicials and i fail the chapter test............... Come on.. that one F truns every a i made in that chapter to that same thing. so for real there is no way around the work cause you is only as good as your last grade in that chapter....Show more
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