My Thoughts on Khan Academy
So if you know math these days, you almost certainly know Khan Academy (https://www.khanacademy.org/).
I am sure the usual reason people end up there is because you are a student and you have a math test tomorrow.
"How do you know!?" you may ask, "Your not a scientist!" you say.
"You're right." I say while crossing my arms, a smile growing on my face.
Well that situation was me in high school/university though I was more of an early bird when it came to studying for my test. So although my test was not "tomorrow", I still needed a new way of learning a math concept that my teacher was not providing me. His was of explaining it while showing it through the video and my option to replay it many times was a life saver. It helped me do well on many tests.
More recently, for my intermediate math ABQ I was tasked with doing a bunch of practice sessions for 15 different lessons where I had to solve 5 questions in a row with no mistakes, for each lesson! So, I have been finishing up teachers college and away from my math books for a little and man have I forgotten a lot of things that students go through in math, it was such a throwback seeing all of these questions I used to do. Some of them I forgot how to solve and I was worried I wouldn't be able to get a perfect score on these questions.
Enter Khan. After each mistake a video suggestion would pop up asking if I wanted to watch it to help solve the question. So I did and the videos were always spot on. They reminded and taught my exactly what I needed to know. They made math fun.
I think this is such a great resource for teachers, learners, parents or anyone interested in math!
What're your experiences with Khan Academy?
Thank Khan,
Maksym Cord
I am sure the usual reason people end up there is because you are a student and you have a math test tomorrow.
"How do you know!?" you may ask, "Your not a scientist!" you say.
"You're right." I say while crossing my arms, a smile growing on my face.
Well that situation was me in high school/university though I was more of an early bird when it came to studying for my test. So although my test was not "tomorrow", I still needed a new way of learning a math concept that my teacher was not providing me. His was of explaining it while showing it through the video and my option to replay it many times was a life saver. It helped me do well on many tests.
More recently, for my intermediate math ABQ I was tasked with doing a bunch of practice sessions for 15 different lessons where I had to solve 5 questions in a row with no mistakes, for each lesson! So, I have been finishing up teachers college and away from my math books for a little and man have I forgotten a lot of things that students go through in math, it was such a throwback seeing all of these questions I used to do. Some of them I forgot how to solve and I was worried I wouldn't be able to get a perfect score on these questions.
Enter Khan. After each mistake a video suggestion would pop up asking if I wanted to watch it to help solve the question. So I did and the videos were always spot on. They reminded and taught my exactly what I needed to know. They made math fun.
I think this is such a great resource for teachers, learners, parents or anyone interested in math!
What're your experiences with Khan Academy?
Thank Khan,
Maksym Cord
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