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They use ALEKS learning which is a great tool to learn online. Make sure to take notes and do the problems.
My advise don’t pay for math at community colleges because they use the same tools but you have to pay somewhere between 300 to 500 for courses which is waste money.
>My current proficiency level is pre-high school mathematics as I didn't pay much attention in high school, learning effectively nothing. Advice from someone who was in the same position: Take a class. Multiple classes. Go sign up for a Mathematics AS at your nearest community college right now. You will never know enough of what you don't know to learn this stuff on your own. A lot of it is just doing the painful re…
When you learn something new, actively look for interesting problems that can be solved with it.
I mostly relied on the exercises (which are good to do), but since they were not problems I invented, I've forgotten most of the material. However, if you use mathematics to solve fun problems that you invent, you are more likely to remember it. And, to be honest, I suspect you also learn it better.
Most people take a problem and try to learn the math to solve it. I suggest inverting the process. Learn the math, and seek out problems solved by that math. Don't be afraid to make it an "overkill" solution. Even if the problem has a simple solution, use your fancy new tools to solve it.
A lot of good resources here but does anyone have a place where I can find exercises for algebra and calculus? Even better if it were an android application.
I’m going to go with a few assumptions here: a) You don’t do this full time. b) By “bottoms up” you just mean “with firm grasp on fundamentals”, not logic/set/category/type theory approach. c) You are skilled with programming/software in general. In a way, you’re ahead of math peers in that you don’t need to do a lot of problems by hand, and can develop intuition much faster through many software tools available. Eve…
>Another thing you have going for yourself is - you can basically skip high school math and jump right in for the good stuff. I'd strongly disagree with this. To the mathematically literate, concepts like "imaginary numbers", "prime numbers" and "logarithms" are just simply understood things which are familiar and have always been a part of your lexicon. These are actually wildly complex, abstract ideas which take ye…
So, terms like "mathematically [i]literate", "adult with zero mathematical training", taken at face value, don't apply to most of us in the world, and almost certainly not to the OP either.
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/primary-and-secondary-education#c...
Whenever I tried to self-learn anything, it was a very bad idea. Some parts of the subject I enjoyed and other parts I hated. I tend to make my own conclusions, which parts are useful and wich are a waste of time (so I tend to skip them). I tend to filter out the material this way, in order to make learning less painful and more fun. My conclusions (what is useful and what isn't) were always wrong and I ended up not…
This answer is absurd, and only true for people with little motivation. Self-learning does require more motivation and "grit" to keep going, and some planning early on, and there is a higher dropout rate. But in many cases, it is the best option. I've found that this is especially true for many parts of STEM fields. It is a far more productive and effective use of time to work through problems than listen to lectures…