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The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational organization, created in 2006 by American educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT. With the stated mission of "providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere", the website supplies a free online collection of more than 3,000 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare and medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, microeconomics and computer science.
This site is just awesome, it has over [B]3000[/B] videos on the subjects above. Mostly mathematics though. This site has actually helped me multiple times in practicing for tests. It shows you a video and then you can practice what you learnt on the video on the website. I really recommend this to everyone.
Here is a sample video:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTKMK1ZGLuk[/media]
[url]http://www.khanacademy.org/[/url]
I've read about this website earlier this month. It's simply boss. Already helped me quite a lot with some subjects.
Been using this for a while now, it's pretty great.
Would use this for maths but I got told not to because 'american maths is different'
[QUOTE=geogzm;35122234]Would use this for maths but I got told not to because 'american maths is different'[/QUOTE]
Yeah, we don't even have an s.
Do hope this expands to more subjects that are good to go worldwide.
[B]KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHN[/B]
Ohh, I thought this would teach you how to be a khan and how to wage war.
Wrong place for that I guess.
Please tell me I'm not the only person who thought this would be about Genghis Khan.
[QUOTE=RedStar;35122254]Yeah, we don't even have an s.[/QUOTE]
We tend to. It's never 'math' here.
As someone with a crappy maths teacher, I can safely say this site has saved my ass on a number of occasions.
My math tutor told me to use this instead of her tutoring me.
It doesnt have the synthetic division of polynomials :saddowns:
I've been using Khan Academy for about 3 years now. It's come a long, long way.
[QUOTE=Pie108;35123659]I've been using Khan Academy for about 3 years now. It's come a long, long way.[/QUOTE]
It certainly has, and you can tell looking at his first videos compared to the current ones.
It's a great online resource.
I heard about this a year ago, some guy in Starbucks, who apparently is friends with Salman in some way, approached me and started gushing over it. It's nice for refreshers in particular courses.
Another quality thread from Mr. T.
I thought everyone knew about this guy. Guess I was wrong.
[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;35125681]Another quality thread from Mr. T.
I thought everyone knew about this guy. Guess I was wrong.[/QUOTE]
You do have something against me don't you?