Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24808864-20140524223939/@comment-26239735-20140526105433

HMcCoy wrote: Hello all, I just finished the last 3rd Grade Math Mission and I went back to that and Early Math to see how things look so far. In my opinion there are WAY too many categories under each and so it makes the pages harder to manage and navigate.

When I was making exercise pages I generally put three categories on each (you can see some of the later 3rd grade exercises as an example. I only put three. No more, no less).:

1) Math Exercise (because it is a math exercise and I would like to have a category where all of these are at the end. Then we will never need to count again, because the category page will say "there are 815 pages here" or whatever.

2) The math mission it falls under (again, so we can count how many objects are in a math mission and not have to do this manually)

3) The subtopic (these are across missions and defined by KA, it will make it easier for people that want to learn Geometry to know where to go).

I don't think we need a categories linked like

1) Math (because we already have math exercise and almost everything we are doing so far is math)

2) Exercise (all exercises are math exercises, redundant again)

Also, I think that, for example, 3rd grade challenge patches should not be linked to the 3rd grade page. The 3rd grade category is intended to count the number of exercises. Now it is overcounting because of these other pages that are being linked there.

I started to delete the categories but I am hoping someone with more computer smarts can figure out a way to delete the math category and exercise category from each exercise instead of having to do it one by one. I guess for those who want to get their edit count up, this would be a decent way to do it! That is, if you agree with my proposal.

At any rate, this is just my opinion and I am open to discussion. If you really think the world of math deserves 50 category links, I guess I will have to deal with it. I am going to move onto grade 4 and see how that is looking.

Happy editing! I have started removing the Math category from pages! Have finished 50 I think. Any help would be appreciated!

http://khanacademy.wikia.com/wiki/Category%3AMath