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HSTutorials (talk | contribs) ('''Mathematics might be the most important and easiest (relatively) series of textbooks to create.) |
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2) It's the easiest subject to study in a non-primary language because there's not that much vocabulary (compared to other subjects), and mathematical symbols don't need translation |
2) It's the easiest subject to study in a non-primary language because there's not that much vocabulary (compared to other subjects), and mathematical symbols don't need translation |
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3) Word problems, which obviously can't be taken from existing textbooks, could be authored in a Wikipedia fashon |
3) Word problems, which obviously can't be taken from existing textbooks, could be authored in a Wikipedia fashon. |
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We live in very exciting times. Many math teachers have wished that they could make changes to, or contribute to, the math book they use. A project like this makes that possible, with the added benefit of providing our expert help to people in need across the world. How cool is that!?! |
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It seems that I'm volunteering myself to start this project. I believe I have the resources to create enough of a backbone of information to get us off to a good start, and to attract other teachers to participate. I run a free website called HSTutorials.net[http://www.HSTutorials.net], and I post step-by-step narrated tutorials for pre-Algebra, Algebra, and Geometry textbooks (Algebra 2 and higher math to be added in the future). Most of the problems are generic problems that would not face any copyright issues if I posted them as example problems, and could easily make up the rest of the problems for that section of the Wiki textbook. Contributing teachers could write word problems, just as people write and edit Wikipedia entries. Links to other sites could be organized as well. I do this for my own website, and could provide the same organization for the Wiki textbook. |
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--[[User:HSTutorials|HSTutorials]] 12:17, 20 July 2006 (EDT) |
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I look forward to hearing from anyone who's interested. |
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Revision as of 16:17, 20 July 2006
Mathematics might be the most important and easiest (relatively) series of textbooks to create.
Here's why: 1) Most content can be taken from existing textbooks without copyright infringement issues (no one owns 3x + 7 = 12)
2)The organization of the textbook is straight-forward
2) It's the easiest subject to study in a non-primary language because there's not that much vocabulary (compared to other subjects), and mathematical symbols don't need translation
3) Word problems, which obviously can't be taken from existing textbooks, could be authored in a Wikipedia fashon.
We live in very exciting times. Many math teachers have wished that they could make changes to, or contribute to, the math book they use. A project like this makes that possible, with the added benefit of providing our expert help to people in need across the world. How cool is that!?! --HSTutorials 12:17, 20 July 2006 (EDT)