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My math skills are terrible, which provider/course would be the best to use to satisfy this course requirement?
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(08-09-2018, 12:19 PM)zzzz24 Wrote: My math skills are terrible, which provider/course would be the best to use to satisfy this course requirement?
Which school, which degree? It can/will make a difference
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(08-09-2018, 12:50 PM)allvia Wrote: (08-09-2018, 12:19 PM)zzzz24 Wrote: My math skills are terrible, which provider/course would be the best to use to satisfy this course requirement?
Which school, which degree? It can/will make a difference
Haven't applied yet, but TESU BALS I am thinking.
This is the only course that worries me...
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(08-09-2018, 01:15 PM)zzzz24 Wrote: (08-09-2018, 12:50 PM)allvia Wrote: (08-09-2018, 12:19 PM)zzzz24 Wrote: My math skills are terrible, which provider/course would be the best to use to satisfy this course requirement?
Which school, which degree? It can/will make a difference
Haven't applied yet, but TESU BALS I am thinking.
This is the only course that worries me...
If you're bad at math, this is definitely the school to go with. EC and COSC require College Algebra or higher, TESU doesn't.
Your best bets for easiest math:
CLEP College Math
DSST Applied Liberal Arts Math
TECEP Applied Liberal Arts Math
Study.com - MAT 102: College Mathematics, MAT 107: Quantitative Literacy, GEOM 101: Intro to Geometry (depending on how your brain works)
I took the TECEP and thought it was crazy easy. But that was after I'd taken ALEKS Intermediate Algebra.
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Hey, I got your email. Review the Beginners Guide in my signature. I highly recommend ALEKS College Algebra as Intermediate Algebra didn't get renewed.
It's as what I recommended, cheap/easy/fast - better as it's not proctored and at $20, it's the cheapest option, if you finish it and you want to get FREE credits to make up for the lost Ethics course, you can take Trigonometry from ALEKS, haha...
Fight that fear of math, I had a fear of it, I took 5 math courses from ALEKS, even though two were useless, it got me into a pace that can't be stopped... and stats then killed me big time.
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This is going to be sooo tough for me, I had tutors, math school, etc growing up. College Algebra seems impossible... this is why I took a college program without any.
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I think ALEKS is way harder than a lot of other methods, and I enjoy math (up to a certain point). All of the courses I gave you will work, it will just be more expensive than ALEKS.
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How long does it take to complete the "initial knowledge check"?
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(08-11-2018, 03:08 PM)zzzz24 Wrote: How long does it take to complete the "initial knowledge check"?
It depends on how well you know the material and how fast you can work through the problems.
It took me 9 hours to get through the initial knowledge check for Statistics, but I have dyscalculia and need extra time to work through problems. I'm also a bit of a perfectionist so I double and triple check my work since I always feel like I missed something, which doesn't help with the speed. Trigonometry was was easier... or at least more straightforward, so I was able to complete it in half that time.
Prep-wise, I spent a month watching Khan Academy videos; reading stats without tears, trig without tears, and openstax math textbooks; and working problems from some stats and trig courses I found online before I started on the ALEKS assessments. I passed both courses as part of the initial assessment, so this approach seemed to work for me.
I think 2-3 hours to complete an assessment is closer to the average for people who are not math impaired though.
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I went through it too quickly, I figured I could just restart it again by looking at comments on the forum, I just wanted to get an idea of the questions to prepare on, but it seems like I can only initiate a new knowledge check and not an initial knowledge check again, even after switching between courses... blah.
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