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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 galaxyLogic »

jacobolus wrote: post #54
galaxyLogic wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A thought: Most people who learn to play piano do so by having a piano-teacher whom they privately meet with once a week or so. Whereas this is not the convention for learning math. Maybe it could apply equally well for math as it does for learning to play piano.

Note that hiring a private piano teacher for every child in the country would also be a difficult proposition, politically / economically. Especially if we expected every person to reach the level of competence at music that we expect with numeracy/mathematics. If we wanted to switch from the current classroom model to a private tutorial model, with the amount we currently spend per student on teachers, we could hire…

Right. It is impractical and probably wasteful for everybody to have their own private (human) tutor. But therefore I find the prospect of AI-based personal tutors intriguing. The concept of Artificial Intelligence making humans more intelligent in general. Even AI teaching itself.

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by embleton »

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.

I have a 5 yo if you need test subjects!

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by mattlondon »

Some feedback:

There is no help if I get something wrong. E.g. on the last question on https://mathigon.org/course/graphs-and-networks/eulers-formu... I did not understand the final section's explanation (I have no idea what "the topmost face of the polyhedra becomes the “outside”" is supposed to mean!). I tried entering a number into the last box and it was wrong. I entered another - wrong again. The "chat" thing just said "try 2" and it was right.

So why was it 2? There was no explanation or more help to explain that to me. I was just told to enter 2 and I did without anything to help me understand more, and then it let me continue.

It would be useful if, when someone gets the answers wrong once or twice, that some extra material appears, perhaps with more examples or more step-by-step explanation to help explain why. No need to show this to everyone - only show it if people are struggling or click on a "tell me more" type expandy thing.

As it was, I still do not know why the answer was 2 and I leave mystified and frustrated.

Otherwise its very nice - one or two weird moments where I had to click on "reveal all" on Firefox (appears to have not realised I scrolled?)

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by LeonB »

anchpop wrote: post #3

This is excellent. I'm not sure if this functionality is present, but one thing that would be cool would be some kind of dependency graph for knowledge. For example I can get through the euclidean geometry section without much knowledge of algebra and vice versa, but to understand trig I expect I would need to have taken both. It would be cool to be able to select trig and say "I already know euclidean geometry" and…

I'm also interested in the application of dependency graphs for knowledge.

Metacademy is an open source/CC site that is based around this idea. For example here's the dependency graph for learning about deep belief networks. https://metacademy.org/graphs/concepts/deep_belief_networks#...

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Post by EmmaMuhleman1 »

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.

Wow, I checked out primerlabs.io and I'm not sure about the competition, but if non-existent or small this could be the next Facebook. I would like to learn more, I work in venture capital. Emma Muhleman - please touch base u can find me on LinkedIn

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by ai_ia »

EmmaMuhleman1 wrote: post #95
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.

Wow, I checked out primerlabs.io and I'm not sure about the competition, but if non-existent or small this could be the next Facebook. I would like to learn more, I work in venture capital. Emma Muhleman - please touch base u can find me on LinkedIn

> this could be the next Facebook.

:o

I will be contacting. Thanks for taking time to go through the web site. :)

Re: Mathigon – an interactive, personalized mathematics textbook

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Post by ai_ia »

embleton wrote: post #92
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.

I have a 5 yo if you need test subjects!

I think you meant sarcastically for the part I wrote in the documentation.

What I meant was giving an accessible path for college level physics for anyone who wants to learn on their own. Currently video based courses and textbooks don't do that.

I believe curiosity driven learning is more efficient when learner is excited and resources are there to aid the learner.

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