By recommend, I mean content you actually find to be high quality, well done, and easy to absorb and follow. By relearn, I mean I have forgotten everything I ever learned in high school.
I used Khan Academy when I reentered uni as a mature-age student and found it very helpful
The best source I know: https://betterexplained.com/
Also plenty of youtube channels, like Numberphile (many of the featured hosts have their own channels), 3Blue1Brown, Mathologer, Wrath of Math and many more. They have vast libraries covering pretty much any topic imaginable. It’s all top tier presentation, so intersting they made me study math for fun - I’d rather watch Numberphile than Netflix.
Brady Haran was a journalist and is is excellent at explaining things
If you graduate to college level you can try Opencourseware -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCourseWare
Professor Leonard. Check the playlists https://youtube.com/@professorleonard
For relearning all school-level maths and terminology,
has very concise explanations of maths concepts.
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Take some basic logic classes first. It’s really helpful for a lot of people before learning math and science. I didn’t realize how many people aren’t just logical thinkers by default sine I am. But being able to consciously think that way will help a ton with math.
I haven’t looked for math classes but I just found classcentral.com last night. They have an unbelievable number of free classes, like tens of thousands. Seems geared to earning actual certificates etc. but I found tons of computer classes and the one I focused on and watched several chapters was excellent. Very clear and easy to follow. Seems a little hard to find anything TBH - any search returns a flood. But who knows, worth a look.
In the past I wanted to do the same because I have the same problem as you but I never actually gotten around to executing the learning part… The one resource that picked my attention the most is https://youtu.be/didXE0HkSC8 ("Learn Mathematics from START to FINISH (2nd Edition) "). It’s a 37 minute video with dozens of book recommendations and how you should proceed with the order of those books.
I’ve had good luck on a number of subjects by getting DVDs produced by The Teaching Company from my city library.
I haven’t looked for math stuff yet, so not sure what they have.
Kahn academy. It’s free and goes as deep as you want. I had to brush up on some stuff and it was great.
Khan academy got me through the end of high school and engineering. It really made the concepts a lot more understandable than the lecturers.
If it’s content is still up to scratch, I hope it’s getting the recognition it deserves!
Khaaaaaan!
Some men just want to watch the world learn.If I ever won the lotto, I’d donate a big chunk to Sal. He got me through my worst classes. Him and the organic chemistry tutor on youtube, who also does lots of easy to follow math.
Helped me get through my engineering degree. Absolutely the best maths education I’ve ever seen.
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As others said, Khan academy, but in the event that you need something even more broken down, patrickJMT on YouTube is a godsend.
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
You have to write out a lot of exercises and there is no getting around it. You can’t learn the violin by watching videos or reading a book. You have to practice. It’s the same with math. But as people said, Khan Academy lectures are very good in steering you through a topic.
Besides algebra, I think it is important to know a bit about probability and a bit about logic. Don’t worry about stuff like covariance matrices, but understand what conditional probability is (be able to explain the “prosecutor’s fallacy”) and write out some of those annoying exercises about urns full of colored balls. Also, show how to write e.g. “you can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time” in predicate logic notation, and see how the parts of the sentence involve switching the order of quantifiers.
Another comment mentioned Baron’s workbooks. Any other resources for exercises which you’d recommend?
Ok, I emailed my friend (above) and she said Khan Academy and she says it has exercises. That’s great, I had thought it was just video lectures. So I’d go for that.
Thank you. That’s kind of you to follow up with us
I’d expect textbooks would have tons of exercises at that level. Schaum’s outlines are good for college level math but I don’t know if they have them for stuff like basic algebra. I have a friend who is a HS math teacher so I can ask her for recommendations and get back in a day or so, hmm.
