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Compared to Kahn Academy, which also has a proven track record, is free, and has been around for a long while.
If your time is worth even $1/hour, the "free" Kahn Academy option will be far more expensive than this program. I respect what Sal Kahn built, especially in the early days, but it's just not anywhere near as time-efficient.
This post couldn't be any more timely. I dropped out of school years ago (16 years ago to be exact) to take care of my sick mother when she was dying. I never went back. I just started working. I am happy to report I am back in school and will be FINALLY finishing my Computer Science degree but I have a very long 4 years ahead of me. Math is going to be hard. What is encouraging is the thrill of when I get the answer…
Maths often get a bad rep, but at their core they are probably the most interesting thing to learn, on par with music in my opinion.
I encourage anyone interested in Mathematics (regardless of your level) to check out Roger Penrose's The Road to Reality. I know it's technically a physics book, even though Penrose was originally a Mathematician, but trust me, he explains things in a way that open up your mind, even for seasoned veterans. He begins with basic calculus, but ends up covering Groups, Topology, Complex Analysis, Differential Geometry, etc etc etc.
And, on parallel, check out John Baez's guide on how to learn Maths and Physics: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/books.html
I love all of Baez's pages and work, he does some really interesting mathematics: https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/
I'm also a big fan of Tai-Danae Bradley's work: https://www.math3ma.com/
Anyway, I hope people find these recommendations interesting or useful...
I work in IT as a network architect and when I tell people I graduated high school with one F on my final list being math they frown a bit. In my high- schooldays (90'ies era) they made a distinction between "math-A" which was more statistics and "math-B" which was more algebra and calculus. I really sucked at math-A which was considered by some as not even real math. I will definitely check this one out and hope to…
Sounds like The Netherlands, no? At the very least, the same system is used in The Netherlands to this day. I graduated high school with a barely-passing grade in Math A, and years later was able to finish exams in Math B with a passing grade. All it took was dedicated practice, and I suck at math! You can do it as well.
When I went back to school for CS, I used this book https://a.co/d/7hlRdnK to relearn math. I couldn’t recommend it more. It starts with algebra and works through calculus. There is a pretest before every section, so you know what you need to focus on and what you can skip.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521017076
Maths: A Student's Survival Guide: A Self-Help Workbook for Science and Engineering Students 2nd Edition by Jenny Olive
ISBN-10: 0521017076 ISBN-13: 978-0521017077
This post couldn't be any more timely. I dropped out of school years ago (16 years ago to be exact) to take care of my sick mother when she was dying. I never went back. I just started working. I am happy to report I am back in school and will be FINALLY finishing my Computer Science degree but I have a very long 4 years ahead of me. Math is going to be hard. What is encouraging is the thrill of when I get the answer…
This is inspiring to me, as I'm in a similar boat and while I'm pretty okay at my job in practical terms, I often feel as if I lack a certain mathematical foundation. May I ask how old you are, whether you are enrolled in a full-time course (w/ much younger other students, I suppose?) and how that has been for you?
However, I start a math course that meets two days a week in person soon.
I look relatively young with a hat on, that will keep me from feeling insecure about my appearance. I'm bald as Dwayne Johnson.
Remains to be seen but I won't let anything stand in my way of finishing. Just going to put my head down and do the work. Not socialize.