Wiki Collaboration - Common Calculus Misconceptions + Truth-tellers - Calvin Lin

This week, we will be improving:

Wiki page	Common Misconceptions - Calculus	Truth-tellers and Liars
Hosted by	Calvin	Eli
Supported by	Andrew	Pi Han
Current status	Continuation	Brainstorming
Target Audience	Calc Level 3-4	Logic Level 2-3
Motivation	To avoid common misconceptions and learn from mistakes	To be determined
Meeting at	12/12 Sat 8am Pacific, 12/12 Sat 9.30 pm India	12/12 Sat 6pm PST, 12/13 Sun 7:30 am IST
Chatroom	#Mathematics	#Logic

Each meeting will be conducted over Slack chat and will last for approximately 60-90 minutes. We will achieve the following:

(5 mins) Figure out the target audience, and their motivation for reading the page
(20 mins) (Quick review of examples) Discuss what we love / don't love
(15 mins) Ensure we have a complete list of examples
(15 mins) Discuss how to organize various sections of the page
(10 mins) Settle on the final structure of the page
(5 mins) Assign out sections to write over the week

If you have any questions, please comment below!

In addition, we will also be hosting 1-1 wiki mentoring sessions, for those wanting to craft excellent wiki pages. If you are interested, send me a message on Slack, and state the wiki page that you would like to work on. The sessions are organized as

Organizing the flow of thought
- Ensure that you know the material well
- Brainstorm about what should be on the page
- Keeping the reader interested
Structuring the page
- Planning the sections
- Choosing relevant examples
Improving the page
- Clear explanations for how to apply the concept
- Creating value for the reader
Responding to feedback
- Identifying what is confusing on the page
- Next steps forward

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This discussion board is a place to discuss our Daily Challenges and the math and science related to those challenges. Explanations are more than just a solution — they should explain the steps and thinking strategies that you used to obtain the solution. Comments should further the discussion of math and science.

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`> This is a quote`	This is a quote
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Remember to wrap math in `$` ... `$` or `\[` ... `\]` to ensure proper formatting.
`2 \times 3`	$2 \times 3$
`2^{34}`	$2^{34}$
`a_{i-1}`	$a_{i-1}$
`\frac{2}{3}`	$\frac{2}{3}$
`\sqrt{2}`	$\sqrt{2}$
`\sum_{i=1}^3`	$\sum_{i=1}^3$
`\sin \theta`	$\sin \theta$
`\boxed{123}`	$\boxed{123}$

Comments

Sir, this is just a stray comment, but as I was glancing through the Wikis, I saw here that the image attached with Work was $W=F\times d$ whereas it is actually $W=F.d$ . In fact, the images attached to Potential Energy and Conservation of Mechanical Energy are a bit misleading as firstly it cannot be simply $E_p$ as absolute energy is not defined. $E_p$ could be taken only with respect to a set reference point. Also, the relation $E_p=mgh$ is strictly speaking incorrect.

User 123 - 5 years, 6 months ago

Thanks! We will update these images accordingly.

Calvin Lin Staff - 5 years, 6 months ago

Math	Appears as
Remember to wrap math in `\(` ... `\)` or `\[` ... `\]` to ensure proper formatting.
`2 \times 3`	$2 \times 3$
`2^{34}`	$2^{34}$
`a_{i-1}`	$a_{i-1}$
`\frac{2}{3}`	$\frac{2}{3}$
`\sqrt{2}`	$\sqrt{2}$
`\sum_{i=1}^3`	$\sum_{i=1}^3$
`\sin \theta`	$\sin \theta$
`\boxed{123}`	$\boxed{123}$