Math Courses
Not long ago, I was reading some articles online written by someone who owned a website peddling math tutoring, and I was taken aback by the advice, and realized that the writer had done nothing more than confuse any student who might have come to that web-article. Part of me wondered if it was even written by a human, it almost looked to me as if it had been written using derivative software, the type that spins an article or content from somewhere else and re-arranges the sentences to make it appear to be genuine unique content.
Indeed, I suppose derivative content generation software might fool some people, some of the time, but I'd say it is a very unwise idea for teaching or tutoring math because it's very hard to describe how to do a math problem using words without symbols.
Now then, I understand that a math tutor might have a hard time writing articles online, because math has a specific set of rules and standards which must be followed and writing proper English is a completely different set of skills some of which must seem very arbitrary, ambiguous, and even bathed in hypocrisy sometimes to a mathematic mind; "it's all wrong they might say," as the rules are so full of holes and exceptions, and then there is writer's prose on top of that, which trumps all.
One great thing about reading articles on mathematics is that for anyone in the field it is quite easy to immediately spot a phony. Of course, the opposite is also true, anyone who isn't an expert, probably will not know the difference. Okay so, rather than settling for bad online math articles, I recommend that you search online; "The Khan Institute" and start watching all the math videos posted. I completely guarantee you, that if you watch each and every one of those videos 10-times each giving them you full attention, while sitting with a pad of paper and a pencil, trying it as you go, that once you are done, you will be in the top 1/10 TH of 1% of the math experts in this entire nation. And don't worry they are free.
Indeed, I hope you will consider all this and be careful from whom you take advice online. Meanwhile after you are half-way through with the assignment of watching all those videos 10-times each, let me know what you think.
Indeed, I suppose derivative content generation software might fool some people, some of the time, but I'd say it is a very unwise idea for teaching or tutoring math because it's very hard to describe how to do a math problem using words without symbols.
Now then, I understand that a math tutor might have a hard time writing articles online, because math has a specific set of rules and standards which must be followed and writing proper English is a completely different set of skills some of which must seem very arbitrary, ambiguous, and even bathed in hypocrisy sometimes to a mathematic mind; "it's all wrong they might say," as the rules are so full of holes and exceptions, and then there is writer's prose on top of that, which trumps all.
One great thing about reading articles on mathematics is that for anyone in the field it is quite easy to immediately spot a phony. Of course, the opposite is also true, anyone who isn't an expert, probably will not know the difference. Okay so, rather than settling for bad online math articles, I recommend that you search online; "The Khan Institute" and start watching all the math videos posted. I completely guarantee you, that if you watch each and every one of those videos 10-times each giving them you full attention, while sitting with a pad of paper and a pencil, trying it as you go, that once you are done, you will be in the top 1/10 TH of 1% of the math experts in this entire nation. And don't worry they are free.
Indeed, I hope you will consider all this and be careful from whom you take advice online. Meanwhile after you are half-way through with the assignment of watching all those videos 10-times each, let me know what you think.
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