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October 3, 2010 at 12:52 pm |
For anyone who wants to learn mathematics online:
http://www.khanacademy.org/
http://patrickjmt.com/
http://betterexplained.com/
http://www.cut-the-knot.org/
http://freebookcentre.net/SpecialCat/Free-Mathematics-Books-Download.html
http://math.stackexchange.com/
http://www.wolframalpha.com
October 3, 2010 at 1:50 pm |
The universities should try it out too!
October 3, 2010 at 2:18 pm |
“It’s really good because when you’re in class doing maths, you don’t really want to pay attention because the teacher’s right in front to you,” says Aliyyah.
??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hadn’t heard that before. Shocking. Or is it me who doesn’t get it?
October 3, 2010 at 6:13 pm |
I don’t understand. What is the problem that they’re trying to solve? If it’s just a question of paying less for the teaching then they’re surely making compromises on the kind and quality of it. If it’s that the kids cannot focus for some reason, isn’t the direct solution to engage their attention in a classroom setting rather than devise roundabout methods, like a 1-1 session with a teacher? It is certain that the kids have to eventually grow out of the 1-1 session habit. This being the case, why bother appealing to it in the first place?
October 3, 2010 at 11:07 pm |
“To take off” is too multivalued. What do you mean?
October 4, 2010 at 6:01 am |
“Online mathematics finally takes off …”
Only if you live in India.
October 6, 2010 at 4:32 pm |
A good question? 🙂
October 10, 2010 at 2:49 am |
I find I learn more in less time in a one on one session than in a classroom. Also some teachers can be quite dull or uninterested in the subject they are teaching so being guided by an enthusiastic tutor would make learning a lot more fun. I think its a brilliant idea in principle though politically impossible to widely implement. It would be difficult even if the tutors were from the UK.
January 24, 2011 at 11:57 am |
Hi Prof. Gowers,
It is not clear if all open problems can be found online. E.g., Erdos miniature: There are no solutions in natural numbers greater than one of
x^x y^y = z^z if x, y are relatively prime.