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by Rendello
436 days ago
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This tracks with my experience. I had to start from the very basics, but now I'm able to watch 3B1B and really understand what he's talking about. During lessons I occasionally reach to ChatGPT to help explain a concept or (rarely) a Khan Academy video. I agree that the other articles mentioned didn't seem to give much of a chance. The Perhan thread has a comment chain between the author and the MA director [1] which is easy to miss. It's notable to me when users complain of negative XP, I've been working on MA every day for six months and got my first negative XP today! I've gotten 0 XP plenty, but if someone's getting negative XP often, they're half-assing it. > I also wish they had a mascot and a streak feature. I believe a streak calendar is coming based on the developers' Twitter. I dislike streaks but I imagine they will be optional as leagues are. I edited it out but my previous comment on this thread said "the day they get a cute mascot is the day I quit forever!" Maybe that was too harsh ;) But I do like the serious tone of the site as an adult learner. 1. https://pershmail.substack.com/p/math-academy-wants-to-super... |
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I can attest to this.
My son completed the 4th and 5th grade courses. They took about a year in total (5 months plus 7 months IIRC). During that time, I spent maybe 30 mins per week giving him some additional explanation. (At school he was studying Singapore Math 3A and 3B, which don't overlap much with these courses.)
If MA didn't exist, I would instead have my son speed run Beast Academy 4 and 5, to make sure he has no gaps, and then I would then need to tutor him 1:1 using the AoPS Prealgebra book, which is good, but a bit thick and intimidating for a child to self-study.