Css Exercises With Solutions Pdf

[Brian Scarano]

Havingread briefly the documentation, they all seem to do the same thing generally, so could you please focus on the differences? Some differences will not be obvious until I've learnt and used all the different packages but I want to better appreciate the differences now, a priori.

I didn't use these packages (I have written my own, which I'm redesigning now, and I had a talk about it during EuroBachoTeX 2011 - you can download the slides from -5), but I've skimmed through their docs and this is what I can say:

With exercise you can typeset exercises (possibly split in parts) with answers. You can hide (= not typeset) exercises or answers, or typeset exercises or answers in another part of the document (although they are remembered in a vbox, which is imho one of the worst ways usually). With each exercise you can associate its origin and difficulty (and typeset them if you wish). You can customize the way an exercise is displayed, and also you can select exercises to typeset (based on a list of labels). Markup is quite nice, maybe not the best possible (personally, I tend more towards more formalized markup, like in XML, not the free-form known in the LaTeX world), but still.

The answers package seems to be quite sophisticated and powerful, although not very user-friendly. Probably not something you would like to use five minutes before your deadline, but definitely worth checking. Ah, and the name Joseph Wright should guarantee that it works well.

The probsoln package is written by Nicola Talbot (quite a prolific and good package author - you should definitely check her datatool bundle!), and seems to be less complicated (and less powerful) than answers, but is probably a bit more user-friendly. Also, it has a few quite unique features: you can select a random subset from a pool of exercises, and also you have \correctitem and \incorectitem for use in enumerate-like environments (these commands mark right and wrong answers in choice tests, but only if you typeset your exercises with solutions.).

I'd also recommend reading my slides (which I mentioned before). They are far from perfect (and may contain mistakes), but they contain some possibly useful information. One of the more important isuues is that when typesetting problem sets you should definitely consider some design problems: do you want to maintain a separate, external problem-database (and if yes, should it be generated manually or with the extract package or a similar way) or not? (There are other design issues like that.)

As I mentioned, I'm currently designing my own package with the same purpose, which (I hope) will have some unique features I personally need, too; it will be definitely easier to use than answers, but will have a similar set of features (and even more). Unfortunately, I have no idea when I'll be able to release usable code (a few months seem to be a reasonable time).

For graduate-level math books, the answer is typically not a value but a complete proof---typically of a related but relatively uninteresting topic. For example, one of the first exercises in the Neukirch book you reference is:

By the time that students are taking graduate-level mathematical courses, they are expected to have already mastered the general skills of constructing proofs. Seeing how somebody else has proved a point is thus not expected to be particularly educational, whereas struggling to prove something oneself forces a student to engage deeply with the material at hand.

Finally, examples of working with the concepts in the exercises are typically already given in the chapter, in the proofs of the main results, so adding extra examples by working proofs for the exercises would typically be of only incremental benefit, but undermine the value of students having to work through the proofs themselves.

Writing a graduate math textbook is a large effort that usually takes several years. The author typically has a vision of what material he/she wants to cover. After writing all the chapters and polishing everything, the exercises are probably the last part he/she works on. They are often meant as a pointer to additional more advanced topics in the literature that expand on the main content of the chapter, and adding solutions could require an effort comparable to writing an entirely new chapter (or several) to present that material in a polished, readable form. So, by that point the author feels that he/she is ready to move on to new projects and in any case the community is best served by releasing the book without exercise solutions. Solutions are sometimes added in later editions if the book is successful and the author is still passionate about the project.

Edit: Another thought that occurs to me is that adding exercise solutions can substantially increase the book's size. If the book is already of a good length (say 300 pages or more) then doing this could make the publisher very unhappy, and could potentially make the book less appealing to readers, who would start being intimidated/turned off by the book's length.

It is widely believed that there should be no solutions available, even privately, since this somehow ruins the game. This presumes that there should be "exercises" of the traditional sort in advanced mathematics courses, which is already partly dubious, since (as is often visible in commercially successful texts) it leads to make-work exercises often of questionable interest. I'd agree that there do exist significant, meaningful questions that may not fit into a small book... but would argue that then good write-ups of their solutions/resolutions should be available somewhere as models. Otherwise, all the students ever see is their peers' solutions... which in principle could be fine, but, observably, in practice, often overlook (through misunderstanding) ideas (from the text or otherwise) that make the resolution far more graceful and persuasive. That is, without good solutions, the only models anyone ever sees are "iffy".

(E.g., my abstract algebra text originally aimed to work a large fraction of the traditional significant questions as "examples", exactly to overcome the inertia of traditional-not-so-good alleged solutions of them, and have no "exercises" whatsoever. However, the publisher, who'd already made surprising concessions about intellectual property stuff, really-really wanted "exercises". So I made some near-clones of the worked exercises... And I've received several comments that I'm an anarchist for making those good solutions public!)

So, indeed, I think it's a bad idea to try somehow to suppress "good solutions". People will still grasp at bad solutions, and will be learning deficient versions of things to the extent they learn anything.

By the way, it is certainly not the case that the standard graduate mathematics texts provide means to resolve all their exercises. Often there is a considerable disjunction. Typically, the disjunction is that the theorems in the chapters do not at all suggest any quasi-algorithmic devices for doing computations in any particular case. E.g., abstract Galois theory usually disregards Lagrange resolvents, so does not hint at how to solve equations even when they can be proven solvable by radicals...

Nor is it the case that beginning math grad students are adepts at writing... so there is considerable feedback among them of marginal write-up style, marginal technical viewpoint, too much attention to secondary and tertiary details (often strictly demanded by in-my-opinion misguided texts or instructors), and needlessly distorted ambient language. Good writing models would help people "get over" this.

It's a commercial decision driven by the wishes of professors (who assign textbooks). Not having the answers makes them more important. I know of one author who wrote a very well regarded textbook with all the answers and had to remove them in second edition because his publisher said it wasn't selling as well.

I recommend people consult Schaum's, Kahn Academy, or look for books like Stroud or Granville that contain all the answers. It very much helps self study or even directed study (since the major learning comes NOT from the professor, but from working problems on your own).

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