Question 1208446
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Ikleyn, the fault with algebra.com is that tutors have no way to communicate on
this site except on the solutions pages. But they should be only for the student, 
not for tutors to debate.  The reason there is none might be for the same reason
that the faculty lounge was removed from the college where I taught for 40
years.  They did not want faculty members of different subjects discussing
students, as a student might be great in one subject and poor in another. So the
college officials did not think it wise to make it so easy for two faculty
members of different subjects to discuss the same student.  But it should be
different here because the tutors here are only for mathematics, and the
students are anonymous.

Unlike in the old days, many schools are now only offering basic algebra, and
moving students immediately into statistics -- and now mostly by canned computer
programs. For that's the way it's done in industry.

Apparently, this doesn't interest any of us tutors on here.  At the college
where I taught, we were all required to teach one course in statistics each
semester, and most of us hated it. We grew tired of the bell-shaped curve!

Before the digital age, the mathematics curriculum from basic algebra through
calculus, was to give enough background so that students could end up being
able to solve ordinary and partial differential equations.  Solving them was
crucial for engineers and scientists. But now digital computers can numerically
solve all differential equations instantly.  

Anyway, I have a hunch algebra.com is on its way to extinction or, alas, it may
evolve into a purely statistics tutoring site, if enough statistics tutors can
be attracted here.

Have a good day!

Edwin</pre></font></b>