Timeline for Are research questions in MSC 97 (Mathematics education) allowed on MO?
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| Jun 29, 2013 at 22:33 | comment | added | Kaveh | You might want to have a look at "Checking if your question is on-topic" of Is my question suitable for cstheory? sometime ago in reply to a user who asked if he can post interdisciplinary questions on cstheory. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 19:34 | history | edited | user9072 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 29, 2013 at 15:04 | comment | added | user9072 | @AmirAsghari: I see the point regarding 13 answers better now, thank you. Also, I am pleased you found useful my answer on the question you mention. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 14:58 | comment | added | Amir Asghari | I mentioned "just 13 answers" meaning that we cannot do a survey with that number of answers. What matters is the quality of answers that was indeed amazing in that case. Another example is mathoverflow.net/questions/128016/… where I had just one answer that was yours. I learned a lot from that, and also from the comments. For years, I was interested in students' understanding of definitions, and now I could see it through the eyes of mathematicians. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 14:54 | comment | added | user9072 | @AmirAsghari: to clarify my point, I think question that are likely to (only) generate the type of answer Benjamin Dickman gave would be good. (But also note he says the question is vague.) The other answer are sort of interesting, but then not answers to a research-level question in math ed (but responses to some sort of survey). | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 14:40 | comment | added | user9072 | @AmirAsghari: you say "just 13 answers" but 13 is really alot compared to the typical question; I have no data handy but for me 4 are already many answers. (This does not mean everything with many answers is "bad" but just to show that 13 is a huge number of answers, IMO). Also, I share the concern of Noah Snyder at the end of his answer. Put differently: I consider expert-discussion of the subject on-topic but I am worried about questions designed in a way that everybody can say something. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 14:21 | comment | added | Amir Asghari | there are just 13 answers. Thus it is not even a "big list" type question. But the answers indeed completely changed my understanding of the issue of proof comprehension. After all, as I mentioned above, asking a Suitable-for-MO Mathematics education question is too difficult. And, I am experimenting different versions. | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 14:11 | comment | added | Amir Asghari | You are somehow right about my current MO question. It took me about three days to write down the question in a way that I thought it could reach the audience. I tried different versions but none could satisfy MO rule. What you see now at the question seems like a survey, but it wasn't designed to do a survey. If you see one of my older question (mathoverflow.net/questions/130883/…), you will find that | |
| Jun 29, 2013 at 13:40 | history | answered | user9072 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |