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> Generally, I love one-time payments for information products. Math academy is definitely not what I'd call an information product. Most of the difficulty in
by cultofmetatron 2y ago
> Generally, I love one-time payments for information products.
Math academy is definitely not what I'd call an information product.
Most of the difficulty in learning math is going through enough problem sets and getting feedback that you can use to iterate on your understanding. Mathacademy does this VERY well. I think one of the challenges of being an autodidect is in plotting the course of what you want to learn and then assembling the materials. Tnen you need a large amount of worked problems to test your understanding. I've taught myself a lot of subjects and there's a lot of time investment in just getting the lay of the land.
With mathacademy, I don't have to do any of that. I just sit down and do the problems. I don't think about the end goal. if I get it right, I do the next one. if I get it wrong, I read the feedback. figure out where I messed up and go to the next problem. Just the fact that those hours I would have spent figuing out what to learn before I could start actually drilling into the subject is worth the $50/month.
> And I don't think that comparing it to a personal tutor is fair.
agreed. they are not the same thing and they have different value propositions. a tutor's value will be listening to your understanding of the problem and explaining it to you in a way that might make more sense. It would be exorbitantly expensive to expect a tutor to generate problem set after problem set every day for you to go through and provide instant feedback while iterating on the problems presented to you based on how you're doing.
> Math Academy's pricing is obscene
Its higher than competing offerrings like Brilliant. but I've used Brilliant and I think mathacademy's approach is more effective.