Question

Are you tired of waiting on OS for someone to help with your hard math equation and want a step by step answer? TODAY IS YOUR LUCKY DAY!!! Save time and try https://www.symbolab.com/

Answer 1

good stuff, but NO

Answer 2

why not?

Answer 3

wb @just_one_last_goodbye

Answer 4

my loyalty lies on openstudy

Answer 5

o.o thats not a study site

Answer 6

and step-by-step answer is not the way to learn :)

Answer 7

well its the same thing we do here dont we?

Answer 8

Its just to help to give help to users when no one is able to help them

Answer 9

its a good site @just_one_last_goodbye

Answer 10

The advantage of having human interaction, is that the qualified helper can assess the strength and weaknesses of the person asking relative to the question being asked and thus may be able to provide a customized way of tackling the problem at hand.

Answer 11

but there is one thing that i would like to say

Answer 12

the user wont think much if he/she is a cheater
only the dedicated ones will use it in the right. :)

Answer 13

If only it had been billed as "Hey, I found this cool site," rather than a commercial enterprise.

Tools are okay. There remains no substitute for knowing what you are doing and being able to think. Step-by-step displays CAN be useful, but only as part of a complete educational package. They will NOT teach you how to think - only to solve specific problems.

Answer 14

yes to one question it said "cant solve"
but it seems a very useful tool like for instantly check your calculation steps

Answer 15

If a step by step answer is not a way to learn, then why do textbooks have examples?

Answer 16

To EMPHASIZE on the CONCEPT in solving a particular problem that it is applicable to.

Answer 17

Yet you are learning from that step by step answer, aka example.

Answer 18

I can remember my grandfather showing me how to remove a nail by use a block of wood as a fulcrum. We learn very well from examples, including step by step answers.

Answer 19

The problem with Open Study is there are very few step by step answers given. Most folks are eager to give just an answer to get that medal, and too many folks just want that answer. That's why I don't answer open questions.

Answer 20

you are not learning by step-by-step. because that is LIMITED to that problem only. You learn from understanding the CONCEPT, and although some people require a more tangible problem to understand going from specific problem requires an extrapolation of general concepts. So, schematically (memory learning)

Answer 21

Well we will just have to agree to disagree.

Answer 22

This is why most TEXTBOOKS introduce DEFINITIONS and then general concepts then going into details by looking at sample problems. You can disagree all you want, but the take home message is going from simple to specific.

Answer 23

We can talk about physics, since it is a great place to start with application of concepts. Pick a topic that you are not familiar with and then I will give you a problem with step-by-step solution and then you tell me what is the general concept, laws or theorems under which it works.

Answer 24

that'similar to wolfram alpha, it's a nice tool, but it's not the same as studying.

Answer 25

EXACTissimo.

Answer 26

To "Show Steps" is to teach memorization of steps and is unfortunately devoid of creativity and thought.

It was theorized early on, after the invention of the affordable handheld scientific calculator (circa. 1975ish), that the ability to check your answer quickly would be discouraging to those who wished to learn and to explore. If you spend an hour on a problem, and then spend 15 seconds on a calculator checking your answer, will you be encouraged to pursue such worthwhile explorations? It is not necessarily so, but it is a slippery slope.

Answer 27

Symbolab is actually a good website, second to wolfram. But it has to be used with caution as I did get some homework problems wrong with it. Just use it as a answer checker.