I am starting IT studies. As someone always interested in computers I have paths in my head how to get needed information. There is also a luxury of testing anything learn in practice by for ex. contributing to open source or creating a server.
Math was always interesting for me too, but I haven’t spend time on learning it much, I have many lacks from middle school and there are topics I know about but can’t use them in practice or have no intuition or forgot how to formally write them.
So I started to try to learn, as a self-learner most time I spend on Wikipedia and forums, but those turned out to be death end when it comes to understanding whole topic and not just reminding one thing.
So question to you that are learning math: how do you do so? And I also never learned anything in a typical “school” way, I always need to feel interest or have a goal in something.
I recommend Khan Academy. Self paced, but gamified learning. Totally free and accessible, but also rigorous and complete. It goes from literal infant level to full bachelor’s in mathematics.
This. A thousand times this. Khan Academy is an incredible free resource.
Khan Academy is amazing.
I’m using it to fill in math gaps too.
Sal Kahn is the reason I passed linear algebra and differential equations. Clear explanations, worked examples and the ability to rewatch as often as needed. Can’t beat that IMO
Seconding Khan Academy, it’s much better than whatever paid alternative resources you might find, and what’s indeed cool is that everything there has amazing structure and you just can trust its curriculum without having to think too much about what to watch next.