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#1 2024-05-21 21:02:31
- mathxyz
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More Math Forums By Category
I think more math forums should be added and some of the unpopular forums renamed or deleted.
Here are 5 forums that should be added to this site by category:
1. Prealgebra
2. Algebra 1
3. Algebra 2
4. Geometry
5. Trigonometry
You say?
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#2 2025-09-18 01:02:27
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Re: More Math Forums By Category
That's a good list ?. Students can find the answers to their questions much more easily when topics are broken down into levels, such as Prealgebra, Algebra 1/2, Geometry, and Trigonometry. It also avoids overwhelming beginners with advanced content.
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#4 2025-09-20 19:55:47
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Re: More Math Forums By Category
I'm always happy to consider such suggestions. In a previous post a member suggested adding 13 more (sub)forums to the list. At the moment there are 16. Is it really helpful to add so many new ones. Also several of the suggestions are specific to the USA curriculum. I could add another 5 or 6 that occur in the UK curriculum. It seems to me that just makes it harder, not easier, to get the help you need.
When anyone posts on Help Me they are advised (if they read the sticky note at the start of the forum) to explain clearly what is causing the difficulty and to make it clear what pre-knowledge the poster has. That has always worked in the past and allows posters to ask for help across a huge range of topics. Along with college/school questions, we've had posts about rotations of a lathe, geo-games puzzles and cracking safe codes (no the poster wasn't trying to rob a bank!).
The link provided by Ganesh leads to the main teaching site where there's plenty of ways to find the exact topic including cross-links between topics. On the Maths Teaching Resources forum there are many good links to specific topics. and you can use the search facility to find specific posts. Isn't all that enough?
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#5 2025-09-20 23:32:58
Re: More Math Forums By Category
Hi, I think the forum is correctly divided. MIF has separated subforums based on his logic which I find right. I mean he has divided correctly - help me in one, general discussion another, also some special ones like member only, that's really good.
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