4 ms·
Khan Academy math, because of the exercises. They are consistent, not very buggy, gamified, and consumable in small or large amounts. Sal Khan is a good commu
by rectang 9y ago
Khan Academy math, because of the exercises.
They are consistent, not very buggy, gamified, and consumable in small or large amounts. Sal Khan is a good communicator and the videos are decent, but it's the exercises that make Khan Academy exceptional.
- komali2 9y agoKhan Academy filled the gaps from my inconsistent public schooling (moved a lot as a kid). Used to think I was just dumb (I might still be lol), but turns out missing some of the early math concepts is extremely destructive to later learning. Fill the gaps and everything else becomes so much easier. I hear tell Sal Khan is hiding out in the Bay Area somewhere, really wish I'd bump into him in a bar so I can grab his tab or something. Dude's a hero to me.
- jacquesm 9y agoKhan Academy, Wikipedia, Archive.org. Between those three there is a lifetime of free education.
- throwawaylolx 9y agoHow do you use Archive.org as an educational resource?
- jacquesm 9y agoFor instance: https://archive.org/details/mit_ocw https://archive.org/details/mit_ocw And then there is archive team with their Coursera backups as well.
- kmfrk 9y agoThis is probably the right answer, boring as it is. I also loved that I would actually see Sal's videos come up as the top results for my calculus questions to illustrate things like matrix multiplication. It's not often I feel like YouTube hits are as dead on the money for me as they used to be in thsoe days.
- kmfrk 9y agoThis is probably the right answer, boring as it is. I also loved that I would actually see Sal's videos come up as the top results for my calculus questions to illustrate things like matrix multiplication. It's not often I feel like YouTube hits are as dead on the money for me as they used to be in thsoe days. The 10-minute limit on videos at the time was to YouTube what the 140 character-limit was to Twitter.
- saboot 9y agoI have been assisting my younger brother in his math deficiencies. Khan Academy has made it so much easier. I'll have him watch several videos on the topic we need to cover, and then work through his assignment together. This lets me focus on the specific areas he didn't understand instead of trying to reteach everything. Really wish I had this when I was younger.
- hyperpallium 9y agoprotip: the hint links usually give a good textbook-style overview (click after answering to not affect gamification).