(05-02-2018, 09:17 AM)MNomadic Wrote: The struggle is real. I have more experienced more examples of this than I can count in my last study.com math class. It's frustrating as hell. I submitted a few of the errors to them. I left them feedback in my review. Ultimately though, it'll probably stay about the same, so I'll just take my free credit and move on.

(05-02-2018, 10:29 AM)fork Wrote:

(05-02-2018, 09:17 AM)MNomadic Wrote: The struggle is real. I have more experienced more examples of this than I can count in my last study.com math class. It's frustrating as hell. I submitted a few of the errors to them. I left them feedback in my review. Ultimately though, it'll probably stay about the same, so I'll just take my free credit and move on.

I was thinking if they would pay people a little bit to submit errors, showing the work/evidence as to why it's incorrect, they could improve their site quickly. There are a lot of people taking these courses but I think most people think it's not worth the bother to try and report errors to them. I'd take the time to do it if they paid me a bit or maybe give me a free exam after finding a certain number of errors. They could clean up their site in no time and people would be learning correct material.

(05-02-2018, 09:38 AM)acamp Wrote: Hey there,
I was going over one of my practice final exams for the MAT 102 course and I found a mistake in the practice final.  The question reads:

17. A four-sided shape has all right angles and sides of equal length. That means the shape is both a _____
Incorrect
Topic: Geometry
Both of these options are correct
Watch correct answer

square and a rectangle

square and a rhombus

Neither of these options are correct

Study.com says that the correct answer is BOTH OF THESE OPTIONS ARE CORRECT which that isn't true.  A rhombus does NOT 4 right angles. I just confirmed this with TWO math teachers =)

(05-02-2018, 01:00 PM)dfrecore Wrote:

(05-02-2018, 09:38 AM)acamp Wrote: Hey there,
I was going over one of my practice final exams for the MAT 102 course and I found a mistake in the practice final.  The question reads:

17. A four-sided shape has all right angles and sides of equal length. That means the shape is both a _____
Incorrect
Topic: Geometry
Both of these options are correct
Watch correct answer

square and a rectangle

square and a rhombus

Neither of these options are correct

Study.com says that the correct answer is BOTH OF THESE OPTIONS ARE CORRECT which that isn't true.  A rhombus does NOT 4 right angles. I just confirmed this with TWO math teachers =)

A rhombus CAN have 4 right angles (a square is a rhombus), but it doesn't necessarily have 4 right angles.  So the question is not a good one, even if the answer COULD be correct.

I think with math questions, the answer has to be exactly, 100% correct.  There can't be ambiguity.

But technically, a square and a rhombus is the correct answer.

(05-02-2018, 08:04 AM)fork Wrote: Do any of you notice this? Some of them are really obvious (to me), but others I'm pulling my hair out trying to figure out just what in the heck they are doing/talking about so I go out to the internet looking for calculators and other information and it seems like study.com is wrong. It's especially frustrating with the math things because they put the proper formula right there in the lesson then on the quiz they do some other kind of weird calculation that doesn't produce the same answer as the formula (or as the calculators for the same thing out on the internet). I think they need some auditors/editors to check their lessons. I question just how much of what I'm learning there is actually wrong?