User talk:MCrawford
terminology
It appears that i began the ellipse page with the term "locus" in the first line, but defined that merely as "set" in the appositive following it. Later, i used words like "far end" and "closer end" to help define the semimajor and -minor axes. I forgot middle schoolers would be reading this as well. Would it be okay then to describe things like that and just use the fancy terms at the end?
It's probably best to divide the article in half. Define it in a "nice" way for the students who will be reading about it for the first time. Later, define it again.--MCrawford 20:54, 19 June 2006 (EDT)
Let's say you're posting an article with some problems in it. Some of them you'll want to use as examples but you'll of course want to leave some exercises for users to try themself. But the solution should also be available (but not visible). So how would you suggest doing this? It would be nice to have hide tags, but those aren't available on the wiki (or is there an equivalent of hide tags?...). Other possibilities are to create a whole new article for the solution (this seems like it would create way too many articles though), post the solution on the message board somewhere and then link to it, or post all the problems and then in the next section post the answers and leave it up to the reader to not read ahead?Joe 09:04, 20 June 2006 (EDT)
