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What do you think would be a reasonable cost given your budget as a teacher? The feedback we're getting from friends will probably be skewed by geography. Per

by noodle 15y ago

What do you think would be a reasonable cost given your budget as a teacher? The feedback we're getting from friends will probably be skewed by geography. Perspective from people in other areas would be appreciated. edit: Also, we fixed the small font thing. Or, at least, made it better. We do intend on moving it away from a big wall of text.

yequalsx 15y ago
You mentioned a $20 figure and this has biased my feelings. It's known that throwing out a figure causes an anchoring effect by which people judge the value of an object or service. I've been teaching for a long enough time now that I have a large set of exercises that I've typed up and written out solutions to. I do continue to create new problems and problem sets but I've reached the point where I can easily reuse old problem by making small modifications. Now I would definitely use something that could create graphs easily. If you could generate the graph of two functions intersecting at points with integer coordinates then that would be really nice. Or one that generates problems with real world data. It's a pain to find out how the life expectancy of Botswana has changed over time and then creating a scatter plot of that for use in a problem. There are certain problem types that would make this service quite valuable to me. Of course I haven't had a pay raise in over 3 years so my budget is quite limited. EDIT: Font size change and color change is nice.
- noodle 15y ago
  Fair. Do you feel that $20/year is reasonable or are your initially anchored feelings negative? We wouldn't be making any huge shift upward if we do move the price up. We can probably move into custom graphs and real-world data as we bump up the grade level of the math generation. What types of problems (if they're not the types you just mentioned) would be valuable?
  - yequalsx 15y ago
    My initial reaction to seeing the $20 number was that it was more than reasonable. I thought it inexpensive. Factoring polynomial problems. It's a pain to come up with them. Writing problems where the solution to a quadratic equation has to be integers are a pain. Especially if they are of the type: (x - 3) (x + 2) = (some number to make it work out nice) Generating fraction problems where the denominators don't get out of control is and having the problems with a good mix of denominators is good. I've seen some ridiculous computer generated fraction quizzes.

by noodle 15y ago

yequalsx 15y ago

You mentioned a $20 figure and this has biased my feelings. It's known that throwing out a figure causes an anchoring effect by which people judge the value of an object or service. I've been teaching for a long enough time now that I have a large set of exercises that I've typed up and written out solutions to. I do continue to create new problems and problem sets but I've reached the point where I can easily reuse old problem by making small modifications. Now I would definitely use something that could create graphs easily. If you could generate the graph of two functions intersecting at points with integer coordinates then that would be really nice. Or one that generates problems with real world data. It's a pain to find out how the life expectancy of Botswana has changed over time and then creating a scatter plot of that for use in a problem. There are certain problem types that would make this service quite valuable to me. Of course I haven't had a pay raise in over 3 years so my budget is quite limited. EDIT: Font size change and color change is nice.

noodle 15y ago
Fair. Do you feel that $20/year is reasonable or are your initially anchored feelings negative? We wouldn't be making any huge shift upward if we do move the price up. We can probably move into custom graphs and real-world data as we bump up the grade level of the math generation. What types of problems (if they're not the types you just mentioned) would be valuable?
- yequalsx 15y ago
  My initial reaction to seeing the $20 number was that it was more than reasonable. I thought it inexpensive. Factoring polynomial problems. It's a pain to come up with them. Writing problems where the solution to a quadratic equation has to be integers are a pain. Especially if they are of the type: (x - 3) (x + 2) = (some number to make it work out nice) Generating fraction problems where the denominators don't get out of control is and having the problems with a good mix of denominators is good. I've seen some ridiculous computer generated fraction quizzes.