/sci/ - Science & Math

>>5958441
what is an example of a good math teacher?

>>5958444
I'm with this anon, example please.

>teach intuitively rather than plug and chugely
>bad math teacher

>>5958441
I guess teacher quality is subjective. His vids helped me out considerably when I was still in high school.

A good teacher has a good plan based on their profound understanding of the principles underlying the subject of each lecture. A good teacher strives to build each student's understanding by leveraging their experience.
There are videos where Khan actually says "I hope that's not too confusing".
You have to explain why you're doing what you're doing on the blackboard. There needs to be a clear sequence of concepts.

Have you ever taken a course where the professor "wings" every lecture?
Not a math course!

>>5958481
It's free, you don't have to watch them. The majority of the people who watch his videos are just trying to pass high school math and Sal manages to do just that.

Why don't you get off your high horse and teach yourself instead?

>>5958485
You assumed that I am a student.
Sitting on my high horse and teaching myself are not mutually exclusive.

>>5958445

not OP but Denis Auroux

look him up on MIT OCW

>>5958492

Plus he has impeccable board erasing skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrMVVWt_xnQ

I agree, he's a not a very good teacher. All the math teachers I had when I was in high school were way better. I don't understand why he insists on doing all the videos himself - in one take! Is it just his ego? I'm sure there are thousands of gifted teachers who would be thrilled to provide better prepared lectures if given the chance. Hell, I'd do a few.

That said, he's doing a great thing and helping a lot of people, and I agree with his vision for how education might be improved.

>>5958441
At least we have the Holy Bible, that is never wrong, even without any part saying that God asked for people to make a book that would have his words.

>Public schools
>Bad
Oh look, an American

If that's true, why have I learned so much from him?

>>5958441
>>5958485
>>5958489
>implying horse

It seems great as a supplement, especially if you're learning on your own, but yeah, you shouldn't rely on it to teach you everything.

>>5958625
This, the site it almost perfect for high school autodidacts trying to get ahead.

>>5958619
i don't see any evidence you learned anything or subsequently gained anything by applying the things you learned.

>>5958637
Well I did.
Boom roasted.

Khana Academy and paul's calc notes got me through Calc 2 and 3, and differential equations.

>>5958481

Yes let's have everything be dumbed down so even the simplest of the retarded can understand it. So he can go 10 minutes into depth on a simple concept that most people understand and bore us to death because retards like OP can't fucking think for a few minutes on what's being said

>>5958640
You didn't learn shit my friend.
What is asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

>>5958742
Not that guy, but I basically used KA to pass calc 2 and 3, since they didn't have mandatory attendance and tests were done in a testing center. I basically only showed up on review days to make sure there weren't things that were covered that didn't have any analog in KA. Got a B- and A-, respectively

>>5958655
>needing video tutors to pass a class

>>5960522
At least that anon passed them.
>Unlike you

>>5958655
>paul's calc notes
thanks, didn't know about Paul's calc notes!

>>5958441
he's better than any other teacher I have had,
+ I can rewind-go back-rewatch. I can't tell my teacher to go back after 15 minutes of lecturing.
Can't pause the teacher to grab some soft drink. Only with Khan can I do that.

You stay in the past bro, the future is e-learning.

The only problem I have with Khan is that his Multivariable Calc videos are all over the goddamn place.

Khan has no business teaching math, he is a shitty engineering major. You should watch Patrick JMT instead.

>>5958441
yeah tbh he's not necessarily amazing
and he takes fucking forever to draw and always has to fix his art
i'm a perfectionist, but fuCK

the best part about khan academy is that he covers every fucking topic under the sun

>Offer something for free
>It's not completely awful
>People complain

>>5958613
>Peasant detected

What's it like being so poor your parents couldn't afford to send you to a good school?

relevant
www.maa.org/sites/default/files/pdf/devlin/LockhartsLament.pdf

>>5960706
In non-third world countries, the only point of private schools is to give your children a religious education.
Go away religiousfag.

Teaching you math on intuition level to help you understand concepts instead of trowing at you 1000 theorems with no explanations.
>Bad teacher
Autism level : infinity.

>>5960744
Your powers are weak, old man.

>>5960661
he has bachelors in Maths, EE, and Compsci, and Masters in Compsci and Business.

>not appreciating free education

He does a good job at educating people in basic principles and its "for free". I really don't see the harm in that

Just because people cannot afford to study with the best teachers or lecturers in the world doesn't mean they shouldn't get the opportunity to learn.

Get off your fucking high horse OP and go out there and teach online for free. Then you can criticize his methods. You act like a spoilt rich kid child posting shit like what you put above.

I enjoy the work his does because he explains things from the basic level up. There is nothing wrong with that and if you don't like it simple don't fucking watch it.

Just because you paid a shit load of money to learn from super teacher doesn't mean that what you learnt is any better because guess what fuckhead. Their all the same mathematical principles.

If someone learns something another way than you but still arrives at the same solution at the end of the day whats the fucking problem. Chances are because they have been shown how it works from basics and why as opposed to being thrown a bullshit formula and saying it is because well it is and memorizing it imo gives you less understanding of why it is. I know plenty of university teachers that do this and it shits me off.

Kahn academy is a great learning resource and OP is a butt hurt rich kid having a cry because his parents are paying a shit load for his education while others are learning it for free.

It's free. It's a fantastic resource.

>>5960937
I'll take a teaching degree + bsc math over all those

>>5958481
I'm a retard when it comes to math.

I started studying with khan academy in my spare time to attain an understanding and review like I couldn't back in highschool.

If you think khan is bad you are probably retarded.

This guy explains shit much better than any of my teachers did.

I don't know why, but I just fucking get it thanks to that stupid website.

If you don't like it then why don't you just trot on and make yourself useful in the only way you know how.

Shitting on everyone's parade and bitching about stupid shit

Thanks for your opinion OP. We'll be here next time you have something equally as thought-provoking and interesting to say.

>>5960958
>teaching degree
How useful.

>>5958441
3 months ago i started at only being able to do basic addition, now im starting linear algebra, he is the only teacher i have ever had to actually go through each step with some kind of frame work that the individual student have the atleast the basic understanding.

also they replace the old videos and update the tests so its constantly improving.

and now i do at times think he should do his working out faster in some videos, but thats now... after HE has taught me.

in a few months i have learned more than i had ever done in formal education, although i must say the biggest shock has been to learn that to have been innumerate is probably worse than being illiterate, and how the fuck can society accept to raise innumerate children? its as though they want people to live as animals rather than men.

(yes i need to learn english and grammer now too, i know that NOW)

>>5958593
>There are people who would be better at teaching than Sal!
>especially me

>>5963733
It's not societies fault when the underpaid shitty math teachers are terrible at teaching. Khan lubes you into it with intuition and is not dry and orders you to memorize a bunch of crap like most teachers.

I have no idea how people learn from watching videos. It's orders of magnitude easier to learn from reading, not to mention much more convenient.

Sal probably isn't the best, but you can pause and replay whenever you need to, and you can increase the playback speed if he's taking too long.

>>5963761
Top lel Asian right hur

>>5958481

Are you mad because you still can't do maths?

Learning how to think is great, but most people can't absorb concepts like that.

I would have failed Calc II without him.

>>5958441

>implying you should only learn from one source material for any given topic.
>implying Kahn should have to tediously dumb down everything to the point he's basically giving you the information on a platter with no input (i.e practicing the material to try to understand from a different perspective) from your part.
>implying it's not dickish to complain about something free and not force upon.
>implying the concept of a public school system is bad because of the contemporary American public school system (see Finland's).
>implying because you pay for something, necessarily it means it's better than the one you obtain for (i.e. religious fundamentalist schools and gymrats paying for memberships when you can do calisthenstics).
>implying, overall, you're not a cyclopean faggot.

>>5958481

Actually I have many times before and those teachers are some of the best I ever had. The ones that taught tentatively obvisously had memorized the concepts to the point that they could explain any question asked simply as possible as opposed to the ones who went by a book or strict plan of action.

>>5958444
>>5958445
Michael Spivak

>>5958481
Khan explains things in a really nice, usually concise, way. He doesn't always do it 100% right, but he seems to upload videos re-explaining things if too many people comment saying they didn't get it.
He's not going to be able to physically cram the information into your brain, but he does a very good job of teaching.

>>5960633
This. So much this.
Sometimes if my brain just kind of wanders for a minute I will miss something very important. I can't just tell a real teacher to shut up and let me think for a second, and I can't rewind them either.
I think the hardest thing about Khan academy (as with anything that isn't face-to-face) is that it's often hard to consistently motivate yourself to learn.

>>5963761
I don't find that at all. I've never been able to absorb things very well just by reading them. If I'm struggling with something, often all it takes is to hear a human's voice explaining it and then to go off and try it.