/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.10022583]

What does /sci/ think about Sal Khan?

[Anonymous No.10022585]

>>10022583
Literally who?

[Anonymous No.10022592]

>>10022585
Literally "Google".

[Anonymous No.10022593]

>>10022585
Made khanacademy.org

[Anonymous No.10022717]

I'd suck his dick anyday. He is the god of efficient education.

[Anonymous No.10022721]

>>10022583
I think changing colors is hard

[Anonymous No.10022727]

>>10022583
>Pajeet make a YouTube channel that means more to people than university lectures
The state of white people.

[Anonymous No.10022739]

>>10022583
the AB calculus course helped when I got stuck due to being out sick for a week, really useful for catching up

[Anonymous No.10022772]

>>10022739
Should have been trivial

[Anonymous No.10022788]

>>10022583
Helps brainlets get into medschool or gradschool

That's good for some reason I guess

[Anonymous No.10023079]

>>10022583
>when I feel buried alive by Math
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSnfiUI54

[Anonymous No.10023226]

>>10022727
>When you would rather learn from a pajeet that can actually English instead of the pajeet with his $10 fake degree that cannot into English
Fix education first.

[Anonymous No.10023250]

>>10022583
Let me just pick another color here

[Anonymous No.10023253]

>>10022583
Unironically a great resource for introductory math. He's not really useful for higher math, but he does a good job of going through the fundamentals and some of the intuition. That, and I just get this big, wholesome vibe off of him.

[Anonymous No.10023330]

>>10022583
he shits on US education system

[Anonymous No.10023348]

>>10023330
but he does it without calling the other side a fucking faggot and doesn't make it apparent in most of his videos

[Anonymous No.10023369]

>>10022583
An okay resource for your first half of college.

[Anonymous No.10023395]

Too fucking slow.

[Anonymous No.10023465]

>>10022583
He's a great guy, honestly. If you want to get into math for whatever reason (be it higher education or just curiosity), his videos would help you quite a bit.
Really shows just how weird modern education is - the only way you can become good at your subject is by studying it in your own free time with uni providing the fundamental base (and lab practice if you're a chemist or whatever).

[Anonymous No.10023483]

>>10023395

this

[Anonymous No.10023819]

>>10023395
Increase video speed.

[Anonymous No.10023826]

>>10022717
>videos
>efficient
read a fucking book

[Anonymous No.10023837]

>>10022583
Great for highschoolers and people who want to refresh on elementary math. I've never tried any of his other stuff. He does seem to have a lot on his site, though I remember my friend saying he watched some of his videos for our 1st EE course when we were freshmen.

>>10023226
This.

[Anonymous No.10023850]

KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

[Anonymous No.10023870]

>>10023826
Imagine that people learn in different ways.

[Anonymous No.10023885]

>>10023395
just skip bits of the video that are obvious

[Anonymous No.10023900]

*blocks your brachistochrone*

[Anonymous No.10024018]

Absolutely wonderful, I think what he's doing is great. Used to donate monthly. I know /sci/ loves to shit on him, but he is genuinely helping a lot of people.

[Anonymous No.10024026]

>>10022583
Helps you immensely if you go by your own pace. The slow pace is because he explains everything he does to give you an overall more intuitive sense of what is being done, but if you get it, you can skip forward the video.
The reason why it is infinitely better than going to a school or a lecture, is that these videos are personal and you can always stop, skip, rewind, and go back to the previous video. At school, you are speeding forward with the clock, the alloted time for the lesson. Not only that, you can't easily communicate with the teacher when you are straining to figure out something that he did, abd the course doesn't stop but keeps moving and essentially waste your time and brain because you are straining to figure out or remembering something that would make sense of it all. The course is also for everyone and most of the times teachers are giving preferential treatment for the people who are up to date with everything and can answer questions.

Tl;dr : Khan academy > highschool

[Anonymous No.10024042]

>>10022583 (OP) #
Helps you immensely if you go by your own pace. The slow pace is because he could explain everything he does to give you an overall more intuitive sense of what is being done, but if you get it, you can skip forward the video.
The reason why it is infinitely better than going to a school or a lecture, is that these videos are personal and you can always stop, skip, rewind, and go back to the previous video. At school, you are speeding forward with the clock, the alloted time for the lesson. Not only that, you can't easily communicate with the teacher when you are straining to figure out something that he did, and the course doesn't stop if you miss something but keeps moving and essentially waste your time and your brain as you are straining yourself trying remember, figuring out something that would make sense of it all. The course in highschool is made for everyone, but most of the time teachers give preferential treatment for the students who are up to date with everything and can answer their questions.

Tl;dr : Khan academy > highschool

[Anonymous No.10024055]

>>10024018
This. Genuinely a good educator and businessman. Only pseuds and racists dislike him.

[Anonymous No.10024099]

>>10022583
My middle school math teacher, who was actually pretty cool, once recommended khan academy. That was 7 or 8 years ago. I've never actually watched any of his videos.

[Anonymous No.10024109]

>>10022583
His videos are low quality compared to some other open source alternatives like MIT OCW and so forth.

The website pedagogical organisation is bad. Especially beyond the freshman level.

[Anonymous No.10024113]

>>10023900