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grok22 | 1 year ago

I think, as a kind of "get an explanation for a specific thing" this is a fantastic addition to the world of teaching/tutoring and hope it succeeds.

I tutor my son in engineering level subjects some times, but I find that I need tutoring myself too to understand some of the things :-). There are various well-known homework-help sites where you can post questions and get answers from "experts", but, none that I know that use a video based approach for the response.

As an aside I think we need more videos that explain how to approach solving specific types of problems -- not just the answer, but how to tackle breaking down the question and what to look for in the question to decide what theoretical aspects apply to solving the problem. I guess once a person has sufficient theoretical knowledge, they get an intuitive understanding how to do this, but engineering coursework doesn't leave too much time to digest a subject in depth and any help provided to minimize the time to internalize concepts/insights is always good.

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eltonlin|1 year ago

Thank you for your kind remarks. As for the need for more videos on the "approach" of solving problems, that really resonates with me. I always wanted to learn how those mathematicians "see" matrices for example, how they "think" of what to do in the first place, etc.

If you're ever interested to try teaching/learning on explanations.app, I'm always here!