35 karma · joined February 22, 2023
I noticed this line at the end of the article about the things you would like to build: “Education apps that leverage learning theories, community learning and game design to make learning more inspiring and accessible for students”
That’s a perfect description of mathacademy.
My mental model is that money in the pocket of companies is "low entropy money" and money returned to shareholders is "high entropy money".
It's the same amount, but much less effective.
I’m guessing you’re mentally comparing this to all the possible books you could buy instead for that price. But how many of those books would you actually read, let alone finish? A better comparison is, having an MIT educated math tutor on call for $50 a month.
I have a bachelors in physics but it still feels great to learn new things that my education skipped. For example, we skipped singular value decomposition at my university in the interest of time. Mathacademy says, screw it, we’re teaching everything!
This graph traversal based learning is obviously an idea whose time has come and we will probably see many similar companies spring up in the coming years.
It absolutely works as advertised and I highly recommend it.
Their team of mathematicians have created a curriculum from k-12 to a bachelors in mathematics.
Aggressively positive? Maybe. I have been a paying customer since october and very happy with the results.
One hour a day should be enough to make steady progress.
People are constantly talking about chatGPT and reinforcement learning but mathacademy is using AI to teach humans. And from my experience very effectively.