Answers created by Becca M.

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• Thoughts on the recent announcement made about the future of the Socratic website? Share them here!
  
• Why is the Socratic.org website closing to new contributions?
  
• Is the Socratic app woefully inept at solving math problems?
  
• What are the recent changes I've noticed on Socratic?
  
• Where are the social features on the Socratic app?
  
• Can an app be developed for Windows devices??
  
• Question #e57a5
  
• Where can I find the Socratic app?
  
• Question #20f52
  
• Question #f7532
  
• Who has the longest streak on Socratic?
  
• Question #d62fa
  
• How do I earn achievement badges on Socratic?
  
• What happened to "suggest improvements" on answers?
  
• How many students has Socratic.org helped?
  
• Is it a problem with my browser or is there a general problem viewing "Featured Answers"? Specifically how do I see the complete answer?
  
• What is a compound adjective?
  
• If you added -ed to the noun scent, what part of speech is the resulting word?
  
• What happened to the old "notes" section?
  
• What should I do if I receive unwanted messages on Socratic?
  
• I want my answers to be featured! What should I consider when writing them?
  
• Who are the featured answer reviewers for each subject?
  
• How are featured answers selected?
  
• What are featured answers?
  
• Is there socratic in other languages?
  
• Are you familiar with the poem of Pablo Neruda, Tonight I Can Write The Saddest Lines? Just wanna know the elements of this poem.
  
• What happened to the "Unanswered questions" button, the ability to sort questions according to "Conceptual" vs. "Practice", etc. on the Subject pages?
  
• Question #13b16
  
• How does the "Top contributors this week" section work?
  
• Question #4019e
  
• In the equation #3*(5*t + 2) = 36#, what does t equal?
  
• This morning every time I click on a question it opens a new tab (I'm using Firefox). Is this happening with other browsers?
  
• Community discussion: what makes an answer great on Socratic?
  
• Is there a way to see a list of all the countries people I've helped live in? I know that there is a map, but I was wondering if there was a list.
  
• Question #8b84b
  
• How can we make new rising stars feel great?
  
• What has been changed, updated, or fixed on Socratic recently? [September 2015]
  
• Community challenge: can you share Socratic with a teacher you know?
  
• Is there any way to stop edit wars where people keep un-doing and re-doing edits like on Wikipedia?
  
• Is there a way to undo changes to your answer? I've had on an occasion someone adding several trivial/self-evident intermediate steps to an answer which make it more long winded and harder to follow. Would be good to have the option to undo such a change.
  
• Is something wrong with the graphing tool? Most of the time I can't see a graph that I made, but I can move the cursor around and see points, and it doesn't show up when I save my answer.
  
• What are streaks and how do they work?
  
• What has been changed, updated, or fixed on Socratic recently? [August 2015]
  
• How about listing the progress icons on our Dashboard in decreasing order of Levels?
  
• I can no longer see my past activity older than a week or so. (On my profile page) I used to be able to go back to my old answers for formatting and other reasons. Can we have the ability to see old activity back, please?
  
• Sometimes (especially with fairly new members) I can't get their @mention name to show up. I suggest putting the @ mention name on the profile page. (I can get to that and could look it up.) I ask?
  
• Question #e6905
  
• Question #d9f55
  
• Can we please have the old ability to delete our own comments back? I sometimes (often?) have a typographic error in a comment. I used to be able to correct the error and delete the incorrect comment. I can no longer do that.
  
• Hey, I just realized we have "like" buttons for "thank you" notes! -"?"
  
• What is a Hero on Socratic?
  
• How can we write mathematical equation faster? As typing all the thing again and again takes in lot of time and there are so many questions i want to answer. any help will be appreciated.
  
• **Request to socratic managers / mentors** what should we do to answers like http://socratic.org/questions/does-a-bacteria-always-have-outer-and-inner-membranes-or-is-one-of-these-membran#158148?
  
• How can I send someone a note or message on Socratic?
  
• How can I find another Socratic user on the site?
  
• What are notifications on Socratic and how do they work?
  
• Question #a4ebb
  
• Sometimes I see really basic questions on Socratic. Why should I spend time answering these?
  
• What are the comment bubbles next to paragraphs on answers?
  
• When I write an answer, why is the editor split into two sections: answer and explanation?
  
• Is it OK to ask a question and then answer it myself?
  
• Why do Socratic users not just use WolframAlpha?
  
• What does Socratic consider inappropriate content?
  
• Has anyone else seen today's Google doodle? How would you describe what's happening in it?
  
• Is it possible to get "rewards" with karma points like others websites offer, like goodies (stickers, mug) or the month member?
  
• Are there any bugs with the new @mentions feature so far?
  
• What are @mentions and how do they work?
  
• What are the answering basics someone needs to know when they first join Socratic?
  
• It's noon-ish, 9th of April (here) and I've started to have difficulty navigating about within Socratic. Is anyone else having trouble? The control linkage seems to have changed.
  
• What kind of behavior is unwelcome on Socratic?
  
• In the write-up on karma, it says at higher levels we get perks. What are these perks?
  
• What should I do if I find inaccurate content on Socratic?
  
• How should I interact with others on Socratic?
  
• Question #8f2e9
  
• Question #d7a3a
  
• What should I do if I find a question that's a duplicate of another one?
  
• Can Socratic implement a mentioning system like the one that Google+/Twitter/GitHub uses?
  
• What does the color of a star indicate?
  
• I have a couple of Trig videos I wish to contribute that don't fit into any topic at the moment. Where can I post them? They're both about the unit circle.
  
• Is there (or should there be) some way to ask for clarification of a question?
  
• How do I add a graph to my answer?
  
• What kinds of questions can I ask?
  
• How do I upload a video?
  
• What types of videos are good to add to Socratic?
  
• Why should I include a summary at the top of my answer?
  
• What are the lunar regolith?
  
• What rock types are most common on the moon?
  
• What effects does the moon have on the earth?
  
• How do you calculate #18/12 - 7/9#?
  
• How do you evaluate #g(-1)# given the function #g(t)=-5t+1#?
  
• What does it mean to have a negative angle?
  
• Why is Venus called Earth's "sister planet"?
  
• How do you solve for r in #- \frac{59}{60} = \frac{1}{6} \(- \frac{4}{3} r-5 )#?
  
• How do you solve #\frac{3x^2+2x-1}{x^2-1}=-2# using cross multiplication?
  
• How do you solve #12y-3x=-1# and #x-4y=1# using the substitution method?
  
• What is the difference between ratios and rates?
  
• Question #6fce9
  
• What types of corrections made and how are they the judged for the following data: positions and velocities of galaxies? This is a complex question, please see my note for further information: http://bit.ly/1nuurbz
  
• Why are dinoflagellates called fire algae?