Meet Salman Khan. He has put free maths on-line.
This article on Salman appeared in The Sunday Times, UK, 12 JUN 2011.
Salman, 28, started putting tutes online for his 12-year-old niece, Nadia, and things grew. So far the Kahn Academy’s claim to fame are:
* Over 2,400 videos including hundreds and hundreds of 12-minute maths tutes
* Over 63,000,000 lessons delivered.
* Bill Gates kids use the site.
* A staff of 1 with funding from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
* Tutes on Biology, Chemistry and Physics too.
You can look up the maths tutes by topic @ The Khan Academy.
Or search topics on Youtube eg. Introduction to Conics Khan
Why Does Mathspig like The Kahn Academy? Because it’s:
1. Free.
2. Quick
3. Clear
4. Low-key
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Salman gives digital chalk-and-talk tutes like a teacher. He hand draws the equations and graphs. He uses a calculator from time to time, but he tends not to use whizz bang spreadsheet graphs or perfectly presented textbook equations. It’s a bit wobbly and it’s all coming from Salman’s head.
And students like this approach. It makes maths look do-able.
Go, Salman.
Mathspig thinks you are just GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!
Australia’s Year 7 – 12 Maths Curriculum is already on-line and free, funded by McDonald’s. See What are maths teachers for, sir?
The tutes on Maths Online are produced by Aussie Maths teachers and they are very good. Mathspig, of course, imagined the quadratic function tutes might look something like this:
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