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To re-learn math, both websites and books provide visual content (text and some of them shows illustrations). So are websites an alternative to books (content quality-wise)?

My goal is to re-learn from pre-algebra (I'm that behind). I feel like I don't remember details about what I learned in school, but as soon as I read it, I will understand it easily, because I have the synapses, but they are missing lots of links.

I want to know if websites can provide me >= quality content as books. I want to be sure that my knowledge doesn't have any holes on it so I can go to advanced concepts without that fear of not understanding something because of incomplete basic knowledge.

The Gorilla
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    What are you trying to re-learn? Perhaps we can make recommendations if you are more specific. – Raj Feb 12 '15 at 22:53
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    The question is really vague, it might help if you were more specific about your situation. – Ethan Splaver Feb 12 '15 at 22:54
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    My knowledge is so limited that I don't even know the names of most basic fields, english is not my native language so it doesn't help. I would happily re-learn from pre-algebra... I'm sorry for such ignorance, I didn't have many opportunities or interest back in the day. – The Gorilla Feb 12 '15 at 23:34
  • @mvw I'm not really seeking for answers based on specific websites or books. Just the best way of learning math, considering the 2 options (books, websites). – The Gorilla Feb 12 '15 at 23:55
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    Books. books, books, books! But this website looks amazing: http://youcubed.stanford.edu/category/mooc/ – mvw Feb 13 '15 at 00:45
  • Thank you @mvw that website seems very helpful to my goals. I found the book Basic Mathematics by Serge Lang very useful. I'll start with it. – The Gorilla Feb 13 '15 at 01:02
  • @The Gorilla, how has your time re-learning it been? I'm very interested to hear after thoughts on what has been useful to re-learn mathematics. – mdave16 Mar 25 '17 at 17:50
  • Does this answer your question? Learning mathematics as if an absolute beginner? – user1147844 May 21 '23 at 23:01

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I think your question is very general. If you want to advance your knowledge I would say first go over basic math skills - that is material learnt in algebra, precalculus and geometry courses. For this I would highly recommend the Khan Academy. Of course you should also find exercises in books or whatever other content you have to apply the skills you learn since the best way, I feel, to understand a concept is to see an application of it in another pretext.

For more advanced mathematics I think finding texts from universities around the world is very helpful, though of course a general background is necessary. If you have a concept you are interested in Id recommend reading about it in a specific book and finding info on the web (the more versions of a concept the better) and practicing it through university exercises that you can find on the web.

Hope this helps somewhat..

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