User talk:Mitchc

Calculus Book
I left that calculus thing alone a long time ago. Uh, right now I'm a fulltime student so my time isn't going to be direct towards wikiprojects for more than 01:30 a day.

The idea of this project was to layout a calculus teaching system so that people were questioned, tutorialed, walked-through, and given guidance and how to solve problems and find help if they can't solve them. The idea here is that if you diversify yourself all over the web in different locations asking questinos, you'll obtain the answer likely sooner in one place than another. However, in that situation sometimes people will learn something new and get a different insight from different people. Diversity of asking questions in different places of the web is one of the best ways to get an answer really, really quick and efficiently. That's where the 90 day idea comes in. You study, do the problems, look at the answers, ask for help if you need to. If the detailed answer doesn't give enough information, people will be told to diversify themselves over the web in different math forums asking question. It will also be suggested that if you can make some online math friends, that will help you greatly.

For the users of this project to contribute greatly, it would be nice if they posted a weblink in the discussion section of the problem as to where on the web they discussed the math problem and obtained information and answers. That way people won't bring up the same subject over, and over, and over, in the same math forum: which is something I'd hate to do to the math forums.

It's advised that they type wiki at the bottom of their math questionaire when going to ask for help, that way if people search through a forum board with a search feature, they can simply type in wiki+trig, or something of the sort, to find a page that relates to a question/discussion on something created by people who used the wikipedia project. By telling the people who are using this system to follow these rules, they will add greatly to the success of the wikibook. Sometimes I wonder if I'm hoping too much. However the case, it seems like a great system.

Also, another thing was to provide a subsection of each section that gave out questions, also there would be a step-by-step analysis of how the answer was obtained.

Sorry I left the project alone, but I don't have very much time to do anything until Dec 16 or so.

Also, the reason I want it to be detailed with the answers is because it will help people obtain an udnerstanding of the answer was obtained. Usually in math there are answers that are unique and very different, some answers a person should just be able to look at and answer in about a second. That's why I wanted to make it somewhat detailed.

--Cyberman 09:47, 24 August 2005 (UTC)