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Chad Nykiel (FGCU): “MyMathLab”
A lot of general education math classes are using a program on the internet by the name of MyMathLab. It is a math program online that allows users to do homework, take quizzes and even tests. This is my second semester using this program and I have some feedback regarding it. I think that the program is a waste of time. I have also talked with a lot of my fellow classmates and they feel the same way. The first reason I strongly oppose using the program is because it is not that friendly. Last semester Mac users could barely even use the program because it was not truly made for Macs yet. If you could use the program on a Mac you would often be kicked off of the site and would lose all of your progress. Another problem with the program lies with the general idea of the program. The program was made in order for students to better understand math and be able to access it anywhere via the internet. However the site allows people to get the answers without truly doing the work. In a lot of the homework questions they have the multiple choice (also known as multiple guess) answers and this allows users to answer questions without even knowing one bit of information on the question. I know that people do this because I have a lot of friends that do it. I have even been known to do it occasionally as well. Why shouldn’t I? The program allows users to answer the question 3 different times in order to receive full credit. However if you get one simple part wrong, such as not switching a positive number to a negative number, then you get that question, or in some cases, just that part of the question wrong. Then you must completely redo that question in order to receive full credit. Also another way around MyMathLab is other websites on the internet. These websites allow users to plug in the question and get an answer. This gives students easy ways to get a 100% on their homeworks, quizzes, and tests without knowing anything about that chapter. This is not helping students to understand math, rather it is showing students that sometimes the best way to approach different situations is to take the easy way out. Overall I think that this program makes a majority of the users put in a lot of effort trying to find shortcuts to get answers and not truly doing the work. I think that this program should not be used because it is teaching a lot of students the wrong way to approach a subject that is not too difficult to understand if it is explained effectively. I do not know what the solution would be to getting rid of MyMathLab, but I would love to hear some people’s opinions on what they think about MyMathLab.
8. April 2009 at 06:21
This is also my second semester using the MyMathLab program. I completely agree with you. At first, I really liked it, because it was easy. Its foolproof! Im ashamed to admit but I have also “guessed” alot on the homework. But like you said, it does not help you better understand the concepts. It does however allow you to see examples of the problems,that are usually worked out step by step. The majority of the time when I don’t know how to work out the problem, I tend to use an example. Because I know I will need to know how to do it for the quizzes and final. Mymathlab also allows you to retake the quizzes as many times as you want, and lets you review the quiz when your done so you know which questions you missed. It almost seems like nowadays professors are dare I say lazy? Mymathlab is convenient,there’s no homework to grade. All they have to do is teach the lesson. But then is it even neccesary for students to come to class if they can get all their information online? This program allows any old joe pass a class they might not even come to, or have learned anything from! I know it might sound elementary but I would prefer to do bookwork and have to work out the problems by myself. Working out numerous problems and examples in class would also be helpful. I believe the numbers of people passing these classes would be significantly different if Mymathlab was eliminated.