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The greatest failure of our time is that there isn't a viral, ad-free website or app for children and teens to just go and learn math on their own. Everything w
by 1970-01-01 2y ago
The greatest failure of our time is that there isn't a viral, ad-free website or app for children and teens to just go and learn math on their own. Everything worthwhile requires a credit card, user account, and monthly subscription. Children don't have credit cards, email addresses, and access to the latest iOS device. They do have time and at minimum sporadic Internet access. If we managed to create Wikipedia, we can manage to create a similar site for enjoying and learning math.
- zozbot234 2y agoKhan Academy is close enough to what you describe, and it covers K-12 plus some college-level courses. If anything, it's a lot easier to achieve this wrt. math than many other school subjects.
- Suppafly 2y agoThis. Between Khan Academy and youtube, there isn't really anything stopping a motivated person from learning. Hell you can get graduate level instruction from some of the best university instructors around by using some of the open courseware materials. Granted some people need the rigor of having an instructor assign and grade assignments regularly, but there are no real barriers to the information itself.
- jzebedee 2y agoIsn't this the whole premise of Khan Academy?
- 1970-01-01 2y agoKhan Academy is limited to learning by boring examples (IMHO) in lecture format and does not virally engage a learner with play. It's analogous to a free virtual classroom.
- spencerchubb 2y agoplenty of learning resources exist. kids just don't have the motivation or focus. i'm not saying the kids are at fault though. there are a thousand games/apps that are like nicotine.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoStart a nonprofit to implement this. What you are suggesting is a lot of work, and it requires an institution to complete and maintain.
- JonChesterfield 2y agoIt's here https://us.metamath.org/ https://us.metamath.org/