Thread:Shaky365/@comment-24808864-20160808021728/@comment-24808864-20160808152935

Sorry, this will be LONG!

Excellent! If you are interested, I started to "update" the Early math Mission but ran out of time. If you are interested, and if you have time, here are a couple options to consider!

1) Look at the history here: http://khanacademy.wikia.com/wiki/Early_math_Math_Mission?diff=142988&oldid=142422 . Also, notice when you are in KA here: https://www.khanacademy.org/mission/early-math and you hover over the little squares you can see the proper names of each skill. We need to make our list consistent with theirs so that people searching for help will know where to go! I changed the names in the Early Math mission and we probably need to do it with other missions too but I ran out of time!

2) Once renaming is complete on the page we need to rename the old versions of the exercise pages with these new ones. Unfortunately I think this can only be done by admins, so you would have to let TJ, Virus or myself know... but after renaming the actual pages you can go to that mission here: http://khanacademy.wikia.com/wiki/Early_math_Math_Mission and find the pages that are missing (they are now red links)! A template for our general form for exercise pages is here: http://khanacademy.wikia.com/wiki/Template%3AExercise . If you want, you can do the exercise on KA, get a few screenshots, and try your hand at making new exercise pages!

3) Some pages have white backgrounds on the math text, or are not using appropriate math markup language. By putting { } around the math text in source mode you can get rid of white background, or by placing $$ $$ around math text you can make it typeset correctly!

4) Several exercises need updating in terms of real-life applications or hints!

5) The template for the Math Mission overall needs to be updated with renamed challenge patches and accurate numbers. This one takes a lot of attention to detail, but if you are interested, check out here! http://khanacademy.wikia.com/wiki/Template%3AMathMissionTemp

6) My main interest is math exercises which is why all of these ideas are "math" intensive. Light Runner and Jett Burns know more about pages dealing with programming or partner content respectively. And TJ knows about everything, any of them might have ideas for places to edit!

Thank you for your kind offer to help out! I hope you can find a source for participation from the list above, or that you can find somewhere else that you can participate. No pressure though, only help out when and if you can! You are a valued part of the community whether you edit, or even if you just stop by to help people in chat with math or progamming questions. If I can think of other ideas I will post here, or maybe we can make a to-do list somewhere on the wiki that we can link to for easier access! Let me know anything else I can do!

Take care!