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Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by gridspy »

ai_ia wrote: post #24
CoolGuySteve wrote: post #6

It really feels like we're on the cusp of a textbook similar to the Primer in Neal Stephenson's 'The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer'. As in, something that learns your interests and customizes to your tastes while still teaching. A textbook that is able to diagnose common misunderstandings from a set of wrong answers to a problem set and evolve its teaching methods. If advertising networks have ef…

I am building Primer. :) https://www.primerlabs.io You can checkout the documentation part for images/gifs to learn how it works. Bit late on schedule, but working hard to release soon. Made a video about the same explaining the interface. https://youtu.be/acTdwGV0s9I P.S. The landing page is a horrible experience on mobile. My bad.

Looks exciting. Make sure you post it back here when there are a couple of tracks to follow. Good choices for your first tracks.

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by duado »

gallegojaime wrote: post #36
ehsankia wrote: post #9

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Hmm, you may have an outdated view of KhanAcademy. Sure, there's videos to supplement, but there's also plenty of exercises and interactive content.

I used Khan Academy to complement my math and econ learning. While the concept of KA is good, with quality practical exercises, I found the videos very inefficient to learn most things. I understand that it's step by step for the general audience, but KA applies this very slow, remedial structure to everything. The throughput was so bad I quit many series because of desperation. Some MIT OCW recitation videos are exa…

You can’t compare KA to MIT OCW. Khan Academy is for a general audience and OCW is for an audience of MIT students, who are highly preselected for aptitude to learn this material.

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by ai_ia »

RSchaeffer wrote: post #34
ai_ia wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am building Primer. :) https://www.primerlabs.io You can checkout the documentation part for images/gifs to learn how it works. Bit late on schedule, but working hard to release soon. Made a video about the same explaining the interface. https://youtu.be/acTdwGV0s9I P.S. The landing page is a horrible experience on mobile. My bad.

Are you hiring? This looks interesting

Thank you.

TBH, I have been full-time working on it alone since last year Jan. Left job and moved back to parents place.

Cannot afford hiring anyone as I am basically broke.

Planning to bootstrap. Thank you once again.

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by ai_ia »

gridspy wrote: post #41
ai_ia wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am building Primer. :) https://www.primerlabs.io You can checkout the documentation part for images/gifs to learn how it works. Bit late on schedule, but working hard to release soon. Made a video about the same explaining the interface. https://youtu.be/acTdwGV0s9I P.S. The landing page is a horrible experience on mobile. My bad.

Looks exciting. Make sure you post it back here when there are a couple of tracks to follow. Good choices for your first tracks.

Thank you. Sure thing.

I have taken reference from here https://teachyourselfcs.com

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by XaoDaoCaoCao »

otabdeveloper2 wrote: post #22
derefr wrote: post #19

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Textbooks aren’t just for children. (Adult education is woefully underoptimized.)

Adult interests are a no-brainer in the same way. "Figuring out your interests" isn't the hard or useful part. The hard part is changing your default (usually harmful) interests into something useful and productive. That involves lots of psychology and (yes) manipulation and coercion.

"useful and productive"

The cognitive nihilist in me shudders at the thought of a technocrat deciding what my own best interests are.

"Your best interests are the games I like to play, not the games you like to play."

Which is a fine position and all that. The objectionable part of it is the pretense of objectivity.

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by toomuchtodo »

ai_ia wrote: post #43
RSchaeffer wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you hiring? This looks interesting

Thank you. TBH, I have been full-time working on it alone since last year Jan. Left job and moved back to parents place. Cannot afford hiring anyone as I am basically broke. Planning to bootstrap. Thank you once again.

You might consider exploring obtaining a grant or funding from the Gates Foundation. Education improvement is one of their foundation's core targets.

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by ai_ia »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #47
ai_ia wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you. TBH, I have been full-time working on it alone since last year Jan. Left job and moved back to parents place. Cannot afford hiring anyone as I am basically broke. Planning to bootstrap. Thank you once again.

You might consider exploring obtaining a grant or funding from the Gates Foundation. Education improvement is one of their foundation's core targets.

Not sure if they give out grants to for-profit organisations.

Will check it out. Thanks.

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by gallegojaime »

duado wrote: post #42
gallegojaime wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used Khan Academy to complement my math and econ learning. While the concept of KA is good, with quality practical exercises, I found the videos very inefficient to learn most things. I understand that it's step by step for the general audience, but KA applies this very slow, remedial structure to everything. The throughput was so bad I quit many series because of desperation. Some MIT OCW recitation videos are exa…

You can’t compare KA to MIT OCW. Khan Academy is for a general audience and OCW is for an audience of MIT students, who are highly preselected for aptitude to learn this material.

For specialized subjects there is a need for some MIT mettle, but I find many freshman courses are very clear and easy to understand, even more so than their equivalent Khan Academy materials.

Before his controversies, Lewin's Course 8 classes/recitations were a gold standard in Physics learning. He combined intuition and rigour masterfully - along with some brilliant practical experiences.

The recurring theme in many courses (not only Lewin's, but Calculus, Economics, or even Strang's linear algebra) is the great care and preparation of the materials to get the point across. I think this, more often than not, is very successful.

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by jacobolus »

itissid wrote: post #27

This looks awesome. But: 1. Grain of salt: contemporary research shows how learning has other facets that are also important like grit[1] (i.e. repetitive application of hard work that has the right direction). 2. Contemporary research suggests that when learning a new concept is made "easier" using such methods its more efficient. On the contrary this is only the first step. Learning is better when its harder, but h…

Yes, this format makes it hard to ask very difficult questions, and the little chat bot rewarding the students with animated gifs of cartoon characters is a gimmick.

This is okay for teaching basic vocabulary and concepts, but seems to go no further than a pretty superficial exploration. Not much ingenuity or thinking is required from the students. Everything is pre-digested.

If a high school student were trying to learn about transformation geometry, working through Yaglom’s books of hard problems (Geometric Transformations, 4 thin volumes) would yield a much deeper understanding than going through https://mathigon.org/course/transformations-and-symmetry/tra...

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