How about a QUESTION OF THE DAY?

[dharavsolanki]

Hey guys, I am hereby proposing a question of the day for this forum.

What I have in my mind is slightly different from the subscriber-publisher concept. I am thinking more on the lines of a collaboration to build up a good archive of questions.

The threads need to have:
* Not solutions, but general misconceptions that students might have
* Heuristics to arrive at the solution
* Points to ponder - how we take things from a certain numerical or a problem and learn from them

Over time - this might build up a good archive of questions. I am right now doing this for a bunch of friends who will appear for their high school exams this year. But I don't think this is all that a bad idea!

Reply here - and we might discuss a few DOs and DONTs of the thing.

I'm shooting my first question of the day along with this!

 

[berkeman]

I'll run it by the other Mentors. I've put your first QOTD in Moderation for now (not visible in the forums). Let the Mentors talk this over before we decide if it's appropriate or not. Thanks.

 

[dharavsolanki]

What's the scene regarding this?

And hey, thanks!

 

[berkeman]

What's the scene regarding this?

And hey, thanks!

Still discussing, but almost have a consensus. Just a bit longer please...

 

[berkeman]

Okay, thanks for your patience.

The consensus is that although this is a good idea in some ways, it would take too much oversight by the staff to make sure that the threads stayed on track and did not contain errors or misinformation. We already have many good teaching resources here at the PF, including all of the existing threads and the Library, etc.

When a thread idea like this has worked, it has been when a Mentor has lead the thread. That way, changes are easy to make and happen quickly. This is a thread that I lead in the EE forum for a while, for example:

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?t=178516

But right now, there are no Mentors with the spare bandwidth to oversee a QOTD thread in the HH forums. If somebody frees up more, we may revisit the idea.

Thanks anyway for thinking of the idea. Thread closed.