Timeline for On the question 'What is gratifying in being a mathematics teacher?'
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| Apr 10, 2014 at 16:59 | comment | added | dtldarek | @brendansullivan07 I don't remember any such discussion. I asked the question, because I thought it would benefit the community. As quid mentioned in the comments (4), we yet need to decide whether we would like to welcome such questions and what policies would apply (e.g. making CW or not). | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 16:51 | comment | added | Brendan W. Sullivan | @dtldarek I see. I wasn't aware we were also having those kinds of CW posts. Did I miss a discussion of this, or is our just assumed for any SE site? | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 16:48 | comment | added | dtldarek | @brendansullivan07 I agree, that we would like the questions to have accepted answers, however, this is a different type of question (this is why I wanted to make it CW). My intention was to collect some content that could be later reused and linked-to. It doesn't fit exactly in the scope of the site, but I think it would be of help nevertheless. If you take a look at other StackExchange sites, each older portal has a few such questions, many of them highly-voted (which indicates they are welcome in the community, even if they do not fit exactly). BTW The OP may have an accepted answer anyway. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 16:39 | comment | added | dtldarek | As for your suggestions, your opinion might steam from different understanding of the meaning of the original question. In fact, for me "As a math educator, how you recommend math education to your students?" is the closest one, any answer for the original would be an answer to the first and third, while the second is irrelevant (boring and gratifying have orthogonal meanings). I admit, my English is far from perfect, and would gladly improve the OP, so that the meaning is clear to all. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 16:38 | comment | added | dtldarek | I doubt that splitting the question is a valid criterion. Any question can be split infinitely and how fine-grained the split should be is fuzzy at best. Moreover, I wrote the original in that form to allow for testimonials, which are much easier to do than arguing how recommend education to students. In my opinion such answers would serve the community better. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 16:37 | comment | added | Brendan W. Sullivan | I agree with the sentiments here. I think specificity makes for a good question in that it leads to much better answers. Think of it this way: will any answer to the original question be accepted? I think it's highly unlikely; there are too many reasonable ways to answer it. That's what makes it a not so great question on this site. It's a great question, in general, mind you! | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 16:20 | comment | added | Chris Cunningham | I believe that all of the answers to all three of my questions are also answers to yours. If a question can be split into a ton of subquestions, I think it is usually good to split them? I'm not speaking from authority here, to be clear! | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 16:18 | comment | added | dtldarek | Could you explain what aspects of the original question make it too broad, but are not present in these presented in your post? If we decide the original question is inappropriate, it seems to me that the above would be equally inappropriate as well. | |
| Apr 10, 2014 at 16:16 | history | answered | Chris Cunningham | CC BY-SA 3.0 |