Do you think giving someone else the answer to a maths problem helps them learn?

Excellent question. Personally I think that just giving someone the answer to the problem will not help them learn. However, I think 'worked examples' - where like you help them through a problem, explaining each step as you go along might be effective. This will allow them to figure out what techniques they can use and what rules they can apply to solve future problems of a similar type. I'm more for explaining to people how to do the problem rather than actually doing the problems for them and supplying them with the answers.

An interesting question - I have multiple thoughts on the matter.

My personal experience is working through the question with a student shows them how to solve similar questions and provides the answer at the same time.

I imagine that coming up with a similar question would have the same effect if you can then observe the student using your method to solve the original question.

Usually, a question is developed by a teacher for two reasons:

- help a student learn how to solve a problem by reinforcement.

- used as a test by the teacher to insure that the subject matter

was properly taught.

Sometimes, helping a student solve a question defeats the teacher that provided the question, because then the teacher never realizes that the teaching method is deficient.

I try not to give just an answer to homework questions. Sometimes the questions are asked by students who are just plain lazy. It's hard to tell if they have already given an effort to doing it themselves, so I try to help by explaining it in simpler terms. After that, I do give the correct answer just so they know that they're doing it right. I realize that the lazier ones just grab the answers and copy them down, but hopefully there are a percentage of them that are actually learning something.

Depends on the situation. If the person has attempted it and cannot continue then providing some hints and tips or maybe the final solution may help that person see their mistakes. On the other hand there are many people who place stupid questions on this forum without attempting/researching and hope someone out there is kind enough to provide answers (which almost always happens for some reason).

Let them make their homeworks by themselves so they would learn. The proper way of helping them in solving problems is telling them how to solve, give the formula, explain, and give examples that are parllel to the problems which will give them ideas.

I'm a huge believer in coaching somebody through a problem, doing exactly as many steps for them as is the minimum necessary so that they can do the rest.

How detailed an answer I give is strongly affected by my best guess as to what the minimum is for them and for anybody else who might be reading along.

Normally, I try to do the hardest part for them, and leave the rest for them to work out.

I think giving someone an answer to a math problem is helping them only if they dont understand how to come up with the answer. But I dont think it is helping them learn if they know how and are to lazy to figure the answer out themselves.

It depends on the studen actitude. If it writes down our answers without thinking on them, it will not help. If the anwer represented some difficulty for he/she and we helped to solve it, it could be a help.

But I think something is wrong with education when I see questions that are so clearly a bunch of homework problems.

It might be OK to help them understand and solve the problem but to just "give" them the answer only encourages them to cheat more. Personally, I don't do either... they have parents and teachers they should go to for help.

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