[zuzuleinen]

As a daily user of Anki and Math Academy, I'm very excited about how software can help us learn.

Now, with AI, we can really build tools that were not possible before. I built for myself AlgoTutor[1], a CLI tool that teaches Go developers algorithmic skills and concurrency.

The recent Understanding floating point[2] from Oz Nova is also a type of tutorial I want to see more often.

[1] https://github.com/zuzuleinen/algotutor

[2] https://proto.csprimer.com/fp/

[Douger]

Massive thank you for the introduction to Math Academy. After a quick look I signed up and it is fantastic - exactly what I wanted.

I'll take a look at AlgoTutor in the future :)

[jkhdigital]

Math Academy is doing it right. Their neat synthesis of spaced repetition and the knowledge DAG is slick, but honestly the extremely fine-grained skill decomposition is what’s missing in virtually all of higher education. I’m trying to follow MA’s example as I put together curricula for my undergraduate CS courses.

[jbstack]

I'd never heard of Math Academy. It seems interesting, but quite expensive ($49/month for software which is in beta). Would you say it's significantly superior to something like Khan Academy (which is free) to justify paying that much?

[zuzuleinen]

It is indeed expensive, especially considering my current location(Romania).

I have a rule of doing 20 XP per day, and I kept that rule for more than half a year. Maybe the price is also a factor, but I never managed to keep that pace for Khan Academy when I tried it. You can check their current courses here: https://www.mathacademy.com/courses

I think the topics and curriculum are more serious, and I would definitely recommend it if you have kids or are in highschool/uni. I'm 37 now and only do it to keep my brain sharp and build my mathematical intuition and I think is great for that due to its focus on practice and spaced reviews.

I think they have a 1-month trial, and you get your money back if you cancel within 30 days if you want to try it.

[abcd_f]

It is vastly superior to Khan. Had my kids go through both, so can compare.

That said, on higher levels there's some cruft that trains mechanical skills, and that's on subjects that are needed only in the scope of the US system. For Europeans these should be optional, alas they are not and this adds a lot of tedium and hassle to an otherwise rather frictionless process.

[sanswork]

I tried Math academy twice and I cannot understand the hype but a lot of people seem to love it so maybe it's just not my style of learning. Each topic seemed to contain too little information to actually grasp it. It was like

Trig 1 -> This is a triangle and trig is about triangles.

Quiz 1: blah