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Having been forced to use an online math software for all my homework while at school, I vehemently disagree. It was so poor that it became a meme within my yea
by Aromasin 7y ago
Having been forced to use an online math software for all my homework while at school, I vehemently disagree. It was so poor that it became a meme within my year group.
It would mark you as incorrect for using too many decimal places, even though it wouldn't tell you how many significant figures was required. I often remember it marking my answer as incorrect, even though it was identical to the answer they gave. Sometimes you'd have to show your working, but it couldn't handle brackets. Once I put the answer as "1+x=y" but they wanted the answer "y-1=x", and they marked it as incorrect.
I'm sure academic software design is leaps and bounds above what it was in the early 2000's, but to have a pupils futures hinge on what generally seems to be poorly tested code is dangerous.
- jcranberry 7y agoThat's just poor software. As long as the software and teachers or professors allow for going over answers and checking for correctness it should be alright.
- crankylinuxuser 7y agoThat sounds like "My Math Lab" by Pearson. It is horrible like everyone talking in here states. It's also a bundle with the book sold by unis, because the code 'allows' you to submit homework required for the class. So they're doing both resale prevention, AND horrible grading. People I know who have to interact with it call it "My Meth Lab" - because you have to be high to like it.