John Moser

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3. Restarting Course Challenge/Unit Test

Can confirm, not on course challenge.  Very annoying writing the first question on the course challenge down on paper correctly then entering it wrong!  Math r hard.

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3. Update: Simplified cards before and after exercises, quizzes, unit tests, and course challenges!

Removing all the skill level changes and other information, to me, caused a serious drop in interest.  I don't feel excited about practicing; it's now a chore.  It just says "blah, you practiced." ...

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3. Newton - Raphson method lesson is in Khan academy?

It's a computer division algorithm that's fairly fast, problem being charging up the look-up table is slow, and you need to complete the q-digit lookup before you can start adding, multiplying, and...

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3. Newton - Raphson method lesson is in Khan academy?

Wait until you see Sweeny-Robertson-Tocher division. I actually figured out how to do it without a look-up table—a 60-year-old problem everyone's been trying to solve, took me 2 hours, they were th...

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3. New Course Suggestion - Intellectual Property

Can you put the name of the course in the subject line so people can see what it is without opening the post?

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3. Update: Simplified cards before and after exercises, quizzes, unit tests, and course challenges!

It's a technically-correct analogy and helps people understand subtle psychological impacts of the type of feedback given which is non-obvious. I often liken things that are weaponizable to the wea...

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3. Use anzan and other high-tech math methods

Think about these numbers:  2.00 and 0.04     The problem is merely 2 / 4. 4 isn't a factor of 2; the next digit is 0, thus 20 / 4.  We know that's 5 (multiplication table). The 2 was two columns l...

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3. Which calculus class comes after pre-calculus?

Differential calculus, then Integral calculus.  Khan Academy has like 5 different Calc 1 courses, so it's confusing. Calculus AB/BC will not prepare you for…anything.  Well, except Calc 1 in colleg...

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I've thought about this more, and considered a rough curriculum for absolute early math—the earliest, learning counting and basic arithmetic.  Roughly: First introduction to Counting is a brief e...

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3. Use anzan and other high-tech math methods

Sure, but how well can you do it?  Single-digit addition? How about keeping up with third graders?  There's a video out there of kids playing word games while paying little attention to the computa...