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insane_dreamer · a year ago

is MathAcademy that much better that KhanAcademy (which also has a Linear Algebra course and covers eigenvalues of course), which is free? Considering it for my youngest kids, but my eldest (now finished college with a degree in engineering) used Kahn Academy as a high school supplement and it was quite good (this was about 10 years ago). (She didn't take the KahnAc LinAlg course -- not sure it was around at that time -- but she did take their calc course and it helped her ace her CalcBC AP test.)

cribbles · a year ago

Yes. I use and enthusiastically endorse Math Academy. It is far and away the best self-learning educational resource I have ever tried; leagues better than Khan Academy.

I'm a self-motivated adult learner, so I don't know what it's like for kids. Though the program was originally designed for them, so I suspect their experience would broadly be similar to mine.

As other commenters have mentioned, you need to be okay with grinding through problem sets with no videos or UI pizzazz -- maybe this doesn't work for everybody. I'd compare it to the difference between trying to learn a language through scattered YouTube videos and Duolingo versus tandem and grinding on a good Anki set.

NB: I'm taking it for the Math for ML track and am currently most of the way through the Math Foundations III course. So I can only comment on the lower level courses.