Thread: Modification sought in reorganisation of? - Yahoo! Answers

Math-section!!!! I draw the attention of young students and opinion of top contributors of math section as to whether there is a need to split the section into 2 parts viz > mathematics, and > Applied mathematics Presently, I think neither the young students are being squarely benefited nor YA able to coordinate affairs of math section properly. There is lot of volume exchange from students and wishful meandering of difficult...

I agree! It wouldn't harm to make a division of higher mathematics as well since questions about group theory and the like keep coming up among lots of undergraduate maths.

I see what you mean. I definitely agree simply because this section is getting clogged up already by too many questions. But like the person above me said, I don't think that YA will do anything about it since YA wasn't originally intended for students to do their homework.

Yahoo! Answers wasn't originally meant to be a homework clearing house, or even a tutoring forum. It was simply meant to be a "knowledge market", whereby people are invited to share their expertise, kind of like how Wikipedia hae become a free encyclopedia. Unfortunately, not only Y!A has become dominated by student questions in certain categories (especially mathematics---"Please do my homework...

My similar suggestion in the past did not bring any result. As far as I am concerned, my knowledge of math is on the borderline of high school math and advanced math. I have many knowledgeable persons of math in my contact list and I am rarely able to answer their questions, but enjoy it when I do. Most of my answers are directed to the student community. But let me say that each one of us is a student and a teacher simultaneously. Just as I...