{"id":108,"date":"2008-08-18T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/108"},"modified":"2008-08-18T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T20:20:00","slug":"can-you-improve-these-explanations-of-math-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/archives\/108","title":{"rendered":"Can you improve these explanations of math problems?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/education.hciresearch.org\/pythagorean\/improvement\/\" target=\"_blank\">This is a very interesting project<\/a> that looks at the use of mass collaboration as a tool for education. Specifically, it is a study that takes various math problems using the Pythagorean Theorem and lets users rate and then improve them. Take a run through it &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t take long. (If you don&#8217;t happen to be a &#8220;math person,&#8221; the math isn&#8217;t very difficult.:)<\/p>\n<p>If you visit the site and go through it, make sure to follow it through to the survey at the end. It presents some very interesting and thought-provoking questions about the collaborative process, application of this process to education, motivations of participants, and even the perceptions of quality of materials produced this way vs. textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the results are published. I can hardly wait to see them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a very interesting project that looks at the use of mass collaboration as a tool for education. Specifically, it is a study that takes various math problems using the Pythagorean Theorem and lets users rate and then improve<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6mlV-1K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.k12opened.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}