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Yes, the quality of the material you use is important. A good teacher can quickly direct you to appropriate materials for your personal needs. A novice learne
by learnstats2 9y ago
Yes, the quality of the material you use is important.
A good teacher can quickly direct you to appropriate materials for your personal needs.
A novice learner is generally unable to identify what is or isn't poor quality (hence the OP's question).
[Edited to add: This forum has recommended certain materials, but we have no idea whether they suit the OP's needs. There has not been enough two-way communication with the OP, even if the OP has made a good effort to clarify their question.]
Using a teacher to bypass this step of identifying materials is way more efficient and... saves you weeks of table head-butting.
- realharo 9y agoFor very specialized subjects, I would completely agree. But when it comes to lower-level math - a group of topics that surely have been done to death countless times over, there really should be well-known books (or online courses) by now that learners don't get stuck on. If there aren't, that begs the question why. Though now I'm getting into pointless theorizing territory - as far as practical advice goes, it's true that having regular in-person lessons can also help a lot with discipline - so that's definitely a plus compared to self-learning. On the other hand, just like with identifying quality materials, you need to be able to identify a quality teacher.
- learnstats2 9y agoThere aren't universally well-known books or courses that suit everyone studying math at this level, and the why is because everybody has their own needs. What you are calling "lower-level math" includes everything that you might expect people could learn in primary and secondary education, from age 2 to age 16 - that's 15 years in which everyone takes their own path and ends up at a different place. It is specialized.