/sci/ - Science & Math

Nope never heard of it

I'm using it right now to help learn algebra for a placement test. His lectures and the way the practice section is set up has really helped me understand mathematics better than any class I've taken.

>using Sal to learn
>not just reading a textbook and doing the practice problems like a normal person

i hear he's muslim.

I wish there was a big test you could take to certify all the basic arithmetics at once.

he has intelligent design in biology category, he says that evolution points to god (a profound creator he says)

>>3278414
oh so he's just a big nutjob and a fraud then eh?

>>3278301
yeah his casual teaching style seems to really fit with a lot of people better than a conventional teaching style, and is a lot less boring.

>>3278305
some people prefer to see and hear in addition to read. some people don't learn well by just reading.

bump

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>>3278414

i could be wrong, but i got the impression that he was actually an atheist but was too chickenshit to come out and say it.

I love Sal! So helpful. Really helped me with the intuition >_<
I like the style of the videos - makes me think that he is teaching me personally, ha.
He also did a TED talk. http://www.ted.com/talks/salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education.html

i firmly believe this shit will be able to replace middle and high school soon

replace it for everyone except those who use school only socially

>>3280014
Watched the video where he tackled evolution a few months ago. I got the impression he was trying not offend anyone.
Yeah maybe it's not correct to suggest that the idea of god isn't completely ridiculous, but he sees the importance of bringing education to everyone and if he offends ignorant religious people and they hide away from knowledge then they may never learn.

>>3278414
He said "I'll not take sides now, interpret it as you will".

And even if he is Muslim, so fucing what? Al-Kharizmi, Abu Ali Ibn-Sina, and Omar Khayyam were Muslims; are you going to shit all over them as well?

>>3280048
algebra was created by a muslim. algebra is the english way of writing and saying Al' Gebra

>>3280054
That's in line with what I'm saying, yes.

I dropped out of highschool in 9th grade due to basically completely wrecking my back.

I learned all of my advanced algebra, trig, linear algebra, and pre-calc from khan academy.

It's just so much better than schools I can't even begin to describe it, I learned so much faster and in such a short amount of time.

bomp on the head

pretty good site helped me alot whit my physics and i saw a ted talk about it

>>3278305

"I wish I could hate you to death, you ignorant swine"

Man, that line never get old. 10 Internets to the Anon who thought of that.

His presentations on mathematics are really useful, I don't know about the Calculus I and higher stuff, but its usefulness after taking a year or two off of school for financial reasons is unmeasurable.
I was able to review and actually learn things better than I had in the past, and now I'm stuck in a class taught by a TA and it's immensely helpful as well.

He demonstrates good mathematical habits by remaining calm and not skipping steps, and his videos in addition to other online resources practically eliminate the need for me to spend 200 dollars on a textbook every semester.

Open source education is the future. If you have him liked on facebook there's an NPR story on it that should be extremely useful, they've got 5th graders doing trig and calculus.

Brilliant, I've used it for quite some time, in spite of the recent butthurt on /sci/ that he might believe intelligent design, he's done an unimaginable amount for education

He's incredibly intuitive and covers very in depth, it's a huge help for people with short attention spans

that guy is an idiot, putting creationism in biology section, fuck him

not to mention all they money he won for change nothing

/sci/ he's a fucking idiot for making a video that leaned towards ID

He still has done more for education than all of /sci/ put together

>PPL getting buttmad that one of the most proflic teachers of all time isn't an insufferable immature militant atheist like themselves.

He is a GREAT teacher who actually grasps all the concepts he teaches very very well, basically he has imagination and is intuitive.

>>3282701

This, just checked out his videos and my verdict is he is a great teacher.

his first two linear algebra vids (30 mins total) taught me more than my first 180 minutes of university linear algebra lecture. his videos are free. my tuition (cheap state school) is $3000+. iiiiiiiinteresting. (and ps my linear algebra professor is actually quite good, but khan is just THAT efficient in (many) of his vids).

Good supplemental resource, but only a fool would use him as their only source of education.
Textbooks ftw

>>3282701
>not believing ID when there is no solid proof for it means you are militant atheist

oh okay

>>3282945
i think that's the purpose of it. i'm currently taking a statistics course that came with videos based on the textbook. any lecture video regardless of the format or who makes it is ultimately a supplement to something such as a textbook, even if you are quoting the textbook word for word. some people prefer to hear and see rather than read, and it's a good way to reinforce the material.

>>3282951
No, but throwing a hissy fit over somebody who does and ignoring all other achievements this person has done because of it does.

thread is still alive, still alive!

The dude is a genius. Look up his TED talk. It's fantastic.

I don't use his videos, mainly because I don't like the sound of his voice. Also the quality of his videos are good enough to get an idea about a certain subject but not good enough to be a substitute for a class for the harder subject matters.

If I ran a high school class I'd link him on the whiteboard. Links to all the good stuff including subprime loans and securities.

And I'd fuck a scenekid.

>>3286429
i'd fuck every bitch that wanted my dick and wouldn't gossip about it to all her friends

the dude was a hedge fund analyst before he started khan

smart bloke, he knows what he's doing

>>3288882
you do realize that Khan is his last name right?

>>3289150
what in my post implied I didn't? because I said "khan" as opposed to "the khan academy website"?

are you even human?

How well and how deep does he teach calc? Looks like he has about 150 videos on the subject.

>>3278284
Did someone say Karn Academy?

>>3289197

talk about the intelligent design video in the biology section. Proceed to tell people that because he is deluded, they should watch his videos with caution.

He has a knack for just telling you how to solve something without actually explaining what the equations are describing (in the math section usually).
Not that I need to know what divergence means, but he does a shit job actually explaining it to those that desire that knowledge.

>>3278284

>>3278284
>Intelligent design

lol

Watching a gravity video now. He is a big help in my quest on autodidacticism. PatrickJMT is pretty awesome too.

ever wonder why 25x60 works when you do it the way where you randomly add a 0 to the second row? i bet you dont. he explains from addition all the way up to differential equations exactly how and why things work, does proofs on things like the quadratic equation and teaches you how to derive it instead of just giving it to you and telling you to memorize, he actually stresses to never just take something for granted and to always understand why something works. his id vid is just saying that because no one really understands where anything came from then no one can really be sure about it, hes a great teacher and not a religious fanatic or hellbent atheist like all the fucktards on sci are.

he's done a whole video on INTELLIGENT DESIGN

So fuck Khan Academy and fuck Salman.

Also requested an arts and languages since he added history. He was kind enough to reply and told me he didn't have any plans to do them.

>>3289902
you are 12 years old and of average or below average intelligence.

>mobs trying to destroy an institute on education based on religious beliefs
i wonder when the last time this happened? dark ages? burning of library of alexandria? you guys are no better than the christian mobs killing people who proposed the world was round.

>>3289921
>discredits thousands of educational videos based on 1 video discussing id and how no one really knows where we all came from and why.

bump from op

>>3289950

>where we all came from
star stuff no good?

>and why
oh my science.

>>3289950
>no one really knows where we all came from
There are some good ideas, some based on theories and others with evidence. Are we so pathetic that we must throw our hands up in defeat?

>why
>science
If ID is a science then why would it pertain to the whys?

How does he compare to patrickjmt?

>>3290638
anyone?