Why wasting so much time on math HW when you can play more?
As a student, I am very sure that everyone will experience some math problems that they cannot handle themselves, probably more than a coupe times throughout their entire learning school time.
Because I personally got stuck on so many math problems, and when it happened, my brain was frozen and blank, and I just sat there looking at the problem for hours(not really, more like 30 mins).
This is a sign of learning inefficiently. Why do you waste so much time, sit there and do nothing? One strategy is that you can move onto the next question, go ahead and do those you can solve. Then come back to the problems you get stuck on earlier.
At the point before you get back to those hard problems, you are not wasting anytime, because you are actually working and getting results of answering questions. But once you get onto the hard problems that you got stuck previously, then the learning efficiency starts to decrease. The more time you spend on the problems you cannot solve without doing anything, the lower your learning efficiency is.
You got two options now:
First, you close your HW and start playing, lie to your parents that you finished your HW if it does not require your parents to sign. It if does, then you are f***ed up.
Second, you can look up online google it or ask questions under Reddit math subreddit or Quora math topic. Usually this is not very quite efficient, especially google. And you know, for Reddit and Quora, people mostly reply the next day or in a few hours when you have to go to sleep.
However, I found out there is one startup working on solving math HW or probably other subjects questions in a short period of time, well as least that's what they want to achieve. And different from Quora and Reddit, you do even need to type the complicated math problems, you take a picture and upload to community, check back in a while and you should have the answer!
What is interesting is that they have visual calculator, you take a picture and the machine helps you do the math. But it kinda sucks, recognition speed is slow and the rate is somehow low compare to other existing products, I guess that why they have the community to fix the mess.
Let me know what you think of the App, and leave comments below.
Oh, it is called Mathpal : https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mathpal/id1217632080?mt=8
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