RE: Mathematical SBI contest #6 Results(2 SBI given away) and Solution of the Equation + Announcement
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The thing about something like stackexchange, is that the students are the ones asking the questions.
That has never taken off here. Whenever I've tried to open out to Q&A posts it's always those big tricky questions - black holes, infinity, speed of light blah blah - all interesting but way beyond what could profitably be discussed so that people are making some progress in their understanding.
Making the prizes bigger won't work - that isn't the real motivation. On Google+ I had a large group, was also on some F&cebook groups - all the motivations were to solve tricky questions, tricky at whatever level the person was.
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A lot of potentially interested people are in other tags, mainly computational ones, eg #programming #coding #computing #code etc
I even got an in principle agreement to load mathjax, but wasn't on steemit, was the now defunct chainbb forum. Maths is a real PITA to write out - all those little gifs!
Ideas? Ideas are everywhere! Been doing maths puzzles since a kid.
One good source are all the dozens of Olympiad or national pre-olympiad contests. Often the questions are too hard but can find simpler cases or limit the question and it can still be interesting.
Even from Project Euler, just change the numbers so people have to understand the solution even if they find it online they can't just copy-paste the answer.
School maths seems largely designed for the sciences rather than for uni mathematics, hence why contests have a lot of number theory and combinatorics, both largely absent from school maths.