Relating to the discussion and controversy around questions that are tagged, explicited stated as, presumed, or suspected to be homework questions (i.e. those given to a student in a formal course of study).
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Physics problem please help! [migrated]
A car drives north at 36mi/h for 10 min and then turns east and goes 5.0 mi at 66mi/h . Finally, it goes southwest at 32mi/h for 6.0 min .
Find the car's displacement and find the average ...
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User asking exercises from textbook without so identifying
A user is copying verbatim exercises from a textbook, e.g.,
Local Feature Size, Describe Conv(A U B),
Flip graph of point set,
Expected number on the convex hull, etc. Is the MSE convention that he ...
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The case Complex Guy
I want to draw the moderators' attention towards this case and I feel it warrants a separate topic for once, considering how obnoxious the guy is becoming as well as for future reference for such ...
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Request for a tag for homework hints/evolution rather than solution
I realize this is not a new topic. But I've noticed that I'm not the only one getting really frustrated by the standard behavior here. Some of us teacher types are willing to engage the OP in a ...
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Differences in [homework] policy to SE Network
I was reading around the extensive topic minefield of homework policy in order to come to better understand the community's attitude (not provoked by anything in particular), and came across a ...
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Proposal: ban verbatim homework questions which have no accompanying text
Edit: Clarification: I think we should start closing questions which are obviously copied verbatim from a homework assignment and which consist of no other text. Questions about homework with other ...
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What have you tried? Is this homework? You will get more help if …
It was fine/acceptable seeing occasional users receiving one/two line comments about appropriate tags, attempts, use of Latex etc. (I am not that old user though. But it was fine when I started.)
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Apply the homework tag during routine editing? [duplicate]
When editing a new question, for grammar, punctuation, clarity, formulas, etc., is it appropriate to add the homework tag if your intuition is strong that it is homework?
Please don't knee-jerk brand ...
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Non-homework tagged as (homework)
I keep noticing problems that are much too difficult to be part of any school class (such as tough olympiad-type solid geometry questions) posted as homework. The posters do not appear to be looking ...
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Duplicate Homework Questions: Suggestion
In some comment here on meta (I can't find it anymore...), a user made reference to the fact that Math.SE has a one of (if not the) lowest question-closure rate of any Area 51 site.
I was thinking ...
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Proper use of the (homework) tag redux
When, if ever, is it appropriate to add the homework tag to a question that has not been acknowledged by the OP to be homework?
My position is that it is never appropriate, full stop. It’s fine to ...
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Would this hypothetical homework question be closed?
I've been looking through this Cregg website (who have taken over the website Cramster), where students can ask homework questions and get worked solutions in return for "ranking" or possibly paying ...
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Downvoting Complete Solutions
I recently had an answer to this homework question downvoted twice because I provided a complete solution. Has a consensus been reached about how to treat homework problems? If not, is this an ...
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What is a homework question?
I can't find an appropriate definition of what the homework tag should cover. Is it homework if it is not to be handed in? Is it homework if it is an exercise from a book during self-study? Is it ...
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Homework Policy
I would like to better understand the
homework policy
exercise in textbook policy
for posting problems to math.stackexchange.com
Can someone point me to the formal policy of what is and what is ...
