Homeschooling high school math just got a little easier
Everyone’s talking about Khan Academy lately, but since I’ve known about it for years, I never pay too much attention to recent news. I usually say, “Oh yeah, I found that site years ago. Great for instructional math videos,” because that’s what it was.
It was a list like only a list-maker can appreciate of every math topic you can think of, in such a sequence that you could teach yourself an entire high school math curriculum by going from start to finish. Of course, if you just needed a little extra help instead of a full program, you could easily find the topic you needed and just watch that video for a quick lesson.
Here’s what the site looked like when I discovered it (and consequently, what I always thought it still looked like):
And here’s what the site looks like now:
(My first attempt to embed a video. If it doesn’t work, just visit http://www.khanacademy.org/about)
Of course, not every program is going to work for every student, but this one was pretty good three years ago and has really done some amazing things since. It’s free, though donations are gladly accepted. I like their vision of self-paced education and the monitoring tools allow a parent or “coach” (tutor, mentor, uncle who’s good at math) to access student data and tailor their guidance. This website can be used in conjunction with your homeschool math program, or (dare I say) even instead of it as a stand alone academic math program.
It’s absolutely worth checking out at http://www.KhanAcademy.org and as with any homeschool resource, part of the point is that you can take from it only and exactly what you need from it.
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