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Hi, i need to study Mathematics from scratch.
I didn't learn any math at school.
I'm from a EU country, not UK.
I have a hard time finding math books that use the metric system online.
I try'd openstax, but those books use imperial dogshit.
https://openstax.org/
I try to scavenge anna's archive.
But all of them imperial.
And all UK Secondary School books online are incomplete.
I can't just buy/import them because i have not been in school for over a decade.
Only teachers can buy them.
I need pure metric Math e-books for prealgebra, algebra 1&2, Trigonometry, Geometry, Precalculus, Calculus.
I want to put them om my e-reader with wacom stylus, so i don't need to buy paper.
If i have to use imperial measurements for longer than an hour, my brain will explode. 🤯
I'm not looking forward to converting and typesetting hundreds of books in LaTeX on Arch linux.
LibGuides: COMM2240 International Media: Reliable Web Resources
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LibGuide page from William Paterson University provides information on reliable web resources for the course COMM2240 International Media. The page focuses on websites but also mentions that the Statista database contains information on social media usage worldwide, providing charts and data.
Some resources:
The best practice resource is the practice tests released by the college board and Khan Academy material here:
https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/digital-sat
But the number of those questions is limited and some of them are not really on par with official ones.
I highly recommend this site for Math & Science homework for Middle School - University. The source code can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/drlippman/IMathAS. MyOpenMath has over 1.1 million questions written for it by teachers and professors and you can contribute as well.
Harvard University's introduction to the intellectual enterprises of computer science and the art of programming.
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This course teaches students how to think algorithmically and solve problems efficiently. Topics include abstraction, algorithms, data structures, encapsulation, resource management, security, software engineering, and web programming. Languages include C, Python, and SQL plus HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
License: This course is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. This is a human-readable summary of (and not a substitute for) the license. Official translations of this license are available in other languages.
You can download the videos, notes, slides easily as well.
A collection of online calculus textbooks written for and by UBC students, includes differential integral, multivariable and vector calculus (or in standard terms, Calculus 1 to 4). Very useful even for non-UBC students.
Lumi is a desktop app that allows you to create, edit, view and share interactive content with dozens of different content types. It's free and open source.
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Lumi is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License 3.0 and completely free. You can use content created with it in any way you like.
Today when talking on discord someone mentioned their approval for Khan Academy, stating that it was what allowed them to pass their class. I have too consulted Khan Academy on a few occasions, and I thought the teaching was well done. I believe education is a human right, and I thought I would see what I could do to contribute. I was alarmed to discover the lack of ways to do so.
I voiced my thoughts in a brief way in discord, and was quickly attacked by nearly everyone there. People seem to all love khan, holding it as the savior of education, and in some way's, it is. Khan was the first platform I could find to offer easily accessible k-12-beyond learning for anyone, for free. It provides a central place with "trusted" content, but ultimately khan academy solves no issues in our education system, while getting all the support of the internet.
I write this "rant" to be the first person on the internet to say khan is not so great.
This is a list of links to different freely available learning resources about computer programming, math, and science. - bobeff/programming-math-science
MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity
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MIT OpenCourseWare is an online publication of materials from over 2,500 MIT courses, freely sharing knowledge with learners and educators around the world.