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> except for some pedagogical errors khan is doing

care to explain as I'm confused?

Khan's lectures are a bit extemporaneous in an attempt to be more conversational. Because of this, he often makes errors or explains topics sloppily.

It's not so egregious that it ruins the content, and it seems to fit his approach of fun, approachable lectures that will lead the student to explore the topic further with classmates, instructors, other internet resources.

Also, I wasn't to fond of using black background and bright colored squigly writing for learning calculus. I have ADHD and learning math and calculus has been such a huge challenge. But I found work done by patrickjmt[1] to be amazing. It's clear neat and concise, and was able to get through Single and Multivariable thanks to him. My girlfriend and my sister really loved the way he explained calculus as well.

http://patrickjmt.com/

There's some stuff he doesn't explain properly, and he makes some assumptions about prior knowledge which aren't really valid.

That said, most teachers will also make the same mistakes.

He's not a great teacher. He's a good teacher who uses a new medium very effectively.

He's not a great teacher.

By what measure. He's better than every teacher I had from K-12. Better than most of the Profs I had at uni as well.

What was your experience?

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