Math Basics need Strengthening/Reinforcement

[RMiller]

Unfortunately, I don't personally know of a website. One thing you consider is going back to your text books and just pulling questions out for practice. Perhaps a few from each chapter. Each text book is different, but the one I used had basic questions like what you wrote in your post first followed by some word problems. It sounds like that first bit might be what you would want.

[lukevanoort]

This is probably too time consuming, but you could make a website that does this relatively easily. Just a database with questions and their answers along with difficulty, level, and other metadata. Then, you could make a question submit box for adding additional questions. As admin, you could approve questions for the live site by testing them out, which gets you the practice and creates a potentially valuable resource for people with a similar issue.

[Molten]

Ok, I don't know if all schools have these, but I'd go to the math assistance center. It's a great place full of educated students who can really help review such things. In fact, I work at a MAC to help people and to constantly review things. That job is the reason my strengths are algebra and geometry. Sure I can do calc, but I prefer to constantly review the basics.

Also, I'm glad you noted that its a good thing your teacher nitpicks about such things. As I always tell people: if you build a bridge and can explain why it should be standing, it really doesn't matter to the people who are in the river from when it collapsed. One moved decimal can be catastrophic in engineering, good luck with figuring this out.

[JoeXIII'007]

Originally Posted by Molten

Ok, I don't know if all schools have these, but I'd go to the math assistance center. It's a great place full of educated students who can really help review such things. In fact, I work at a MAC to help people and to constantly review things. That job is the reason my strengths are algebra and geometry. Sure I can do calc, but I prefer to constantly review the basics.

Also, I'm glad you noted that its a good thing your teacher nitpicks about such things. As I always tell people: if you build a bridge and can explain why it should be standing, it really doesn't matter to the people who are in the river from when it collapsed. One moved decimal can be catastrophic in engineering, good luck with figuring this out.

Good grief I had not thought of that. Thank you!

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