Timeline for Using CV as part of a statistics course
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| Nov 14, 2011 at 9:31 | comment | added | cardinal | @whuber: Thanks. It sounds like you're creating quite the stimulating atmosphere for your students. That is wonderful! | |
| Nov 14, 2011 at 3:39 | comment | added | whuber Mod | @cardinal Anything related to math, including (on occasion) some computer science, physics, and economics applications. We meet once a week for an indefinite period that usually stretches to 5 hours. Students often bring in interesting problems, but if not, I keep a collection of good ones and we can always look at old Putnam exams :-). After they create a solution on their own, I encourage them to find alternative solutions and then I draw connections among various branches of math that might be implicated, as a way to help them unify their undergraduate studies. | |
| Nov 14, 2011 at 3:06 | comment | added | cardinal | @whuber: Pure curiosity, but what are the breadth of topics covered in the problem-solving course? | |
| Nov 14, 2011 at 2:31 | comment | added | whuber Mod | @John, the best way to fish for problems is just to read over the new problems regularly. (I do this with math@SE for a problem-solving course I teach; it turns up about one good problem a week.) | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 13:08 | comment | added | JohnRos | @whuber: Another way to go about, would be to send the students to find interesting problems in CV to discuss in class. Except for the tag, how would you recommend "fishing for problems"? | |
| Nov 12, 2011 at 16:58 | comment | added | whuber Mod | @mpiktas It's probably best not to provide details of the detection mechanism. Suffice it to say that some cross-checks are routinely run whose results are visible to moderators. We don't have the ability to see any details about votes, but clearly that information is available to SE technical staff. | |
| Nov 12, 2011 at 14:16 | comment | added | mpiktas | I am curious who are these perpetrators? How were they detected? | |
| Nov 10, 2011 at 17:25 | comment | added | user88 | +100, if I could. | |
| Nov 10, 2011 at 16:20 | comment | added | Andy W | One could use other aspects besides reputation as well. Such as a quality question/answer (based on evaluated content as opposed to upvotes, same as whuber said). To @JohnRos, how about you act a filter of sorts. Have the student submit the question/answer to you first, and then encourage the student to post that themselves if you approve and it is not redundant with other questions/answers. | |
| Nov 10, 2011 at 15:50 | history | answered | whuberMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |