Timeline for What's the point of exercises without answers?
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| Jun 25, 2019 at 18:31 | comment | added | ruferd | Not sure if this is worth a full answer, but I can say one thing that I think one benefit to working out a difficult problem and then not knowing if it was right or not, was that it helped me find resources and learn how to use them (WolframAlpha, Desmos, even Geogebra) in order to estimate the answer and see if the answer I came up with was reasonable. If I just had the answer, then I would confirm my answer or re-work the problem until it was right, and be none the wiser about some mathematical tools that were available. | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 10:38 | comment | added | Dave L Renfro | It might be helpful to give some more context, such as what specific topics you've found this to be especially problematic, why looking at the many other nearly identical textbooks one can find in libraries (and also easily google'able material on the internet) isn't enough, etc. In my case I pretty much learned everything from pre-algebra up to and including multi-variable calculus, plus beginnings of ODEs and elementary linear algebra on my own using books (1971-1976), and I felt textbooks had more than enough problems with answers --- more than I had the time or the desire to even attempt. | |
| Jun 25, 2019 at 2:49 | history | edited | kcrisman | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
try to make question sound less contentious and bring out the actual question
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| Jun 24, 2019 at 23:46 | comment | added | Chris Cunningham | Multiple people have deleted their own comments in this thread; as I result I've deleted some comments that were made obsolete, to avoid more confusion. | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 18:06 | answer | added | Rusty Core | timeline score: 6 | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 13:20 | comment | added | kcrisman | For what it's worth, the core question here seems fine, and definitely on-topic, even if expressed somewhat baldly. If @Erik had simply put a dividing line between the question and the commentary would anyone have complained? | |
| Jun 24, 2019 at 1:25 | history | removed from network questions | Chris Cunningham | ||
| Jun 24, 2019 at 0:45 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jun 23, 2019 at 19:37 | comment | added | Tommi | The question is not opinion-based: Certainly there is a reason why half the exercises have answers, and someone might even know that. | |
| S Jun 23, 2019 at 19:35 | history | suggested | amWhy |
Added a relevant tag in relation to this question.
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| Jun 23, 2019 at 19:04 | answer | added | Nate Bade | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jun 23, 2019 at 18:20 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 23, 2019 at 17:09 | comment | added | amWhy | This reads like an editorial, even a rant, at that. Your question in your first sentence reads like a rhetorical question, because you seem not interested in understanding "the point," because you go on to make it clear you have decided there is no "point." | |
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| Jun 23, 2019 at 16:39 | history | asked | Erik | CC BY-SA 4.0 |