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My education is lopsided , if i wanted to learn more or any at all maths or sciences , what would you recommend i start w. ?

― anthony, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Addition

― Tom, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Not bloody long division. It's very hard to do on paper. Read any of the Uncle Albert books. I'll find yer a link. They helped me understand physics. I'm trying to learn about STACKS and I find a friend with beermats who knows about these things helps more than a lot of reading.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to think long division was theraputic. You get used to it and barely need to think. It was after fifth form that it all turned to custard for me

― Menelaus Darcy, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Long division is what squared paper was desinged for. Stops you slipping between columns.

― RickyT, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Long division? Don't you mean POWER division?

― rosemary, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

start with SET THEORY and work up to arithmetic

― mark s, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

and DIAGRAMS are for lightweights

― bourbaki, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

expanding brackets

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When doing my GCSEs my mother enrolled me on a Kumon Maths program, which is aimed at kids, but is actually a really good way of learning maths, in that you start at the very bottom and get much better and really throroughly grounded. I highly recommend it. This is the webpage......... http://members.ozemail.com.au/~terai/Kumontop.html

― alix, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

don't forget to label the axes

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Buy a calculator and let the THINKING MACHINES do the work for you.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Algebra. Better than geometry.

― Ally C, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Whats all this stuff about long division? Have you people not heard of calculators? do they not teach real maths at school anymore?

― hamish, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What's so bad about long division? It's geometry that's really awful. I wouldn't want to learn any maths but sciences can be fun. Um...read books, I guess. And do home experiments involving fire.

― Maria, Tuesday, 4 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Astronomy rulez, Simulation and Modeling can be insteresting as is most things involving complex variables.

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I ended up really liking quadratic and simultaneous equations once I worked out how to do them. Though, I doubt if I would have any idea how to do them now. Or any need.

― james, Thursday, 6 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ten years pass...

I have to take an intermediate stats course early next year. I used to know basic applied stats (z scores, sample means, t tests, variance, all the related concepts...) but I've forgotten it all and need to get it back before the intermediate course starts. I could take a basic stats course now to prepare, but I found the first session pretty badly taught and I'd rather just use a good textbook and work through it. Any recommendations for good teach-yourself basic stats courses on youtube or elsewhere online that I can use to augment the textbook? I've tried the Khan Academy, don't like the style... there's a lot out there....

― ljubljana, Friday, 14 September 2012 02:54 (thirteen years ago)

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