Comment Math learning (Score 1) 609
I worked as a math tutor to put myself through college, most of my remaining work has been in teaching programming in the industry.
Item 1: Math makes sense. If something doesn't make sense, find another explanation/teacher.
Item 2: When tutoring, I have a 95% confidence that if someone can't do topic N, they don't quite understand topic N-1 well enough.
Item 3: Practice, and indeed speed at doing problems is very important. Many topics will not make proper sense if you can't hold intermediate steps in your head.
Item 4: Learning for adults is usually best accomplished by either
(a) having a task one is trying to do, and having to learn the bits.
(b) having a live person/teacher to both help and motivate schedule-wise
Item 1: Math makes sense. If something doesn't make sense, find another explanation/teacher.
Item 2: When tutoring, I have a 95% confidence that if someone can't do topic N, they don't quite understand topic N-1 well enough.
Item 3: Practice, and indeed speed at doing problems is very important. Many topics will not make proper sense if you can't hold intermediate steps in your head.
Item 4: Learning for adults is usually best accomplished by either
(a) having a task one is trying to do, and having to learn the bits.
(b) having a live person/teacher to both help and motivate schedule-wise
