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  • I would like to learn some maths- best resources?
  • iamconfusedagain
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    I liked pure maths at school until I got a bit carried away with beer and weed. Now a few decades later I fancy having another go at it, just for fun.
    I can do the basics, Im think with a few reminders I could start looking at A-level stuff. Does anyone know any decent resources? I guess any A-level textbook would be ok, but there are often some that are better than others and I imagine there is tons of stuff online these days.
    Cheers

    Robz
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    http://www.mathtutor.ac.uk

    Lots of vids, practice exercises etc.

    shermer75
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    If you live in London then I can very highly recommend Birkbeck College, I did Chemistry and Biology courses there. They are geared around working people so all lectures run 6-9pm once or twice a week

    parkesie
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    Local library pick up a a level revision guide to refresh.

    iamconfusedagain
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    Cheers. I am in Bristol. I would rather learn on the sofa as it is easier to fit into life. Thanks for the link I will have a look.

    leegee
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    Khan academy is very useful.

    Tom_W1987
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    Khan academy – got me through 1st year Statistics for Biosciences at Uni. My company have started sponsoring them as well, so they are on to something good.

    shermer75
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    +1 Khan Academy. Find a book with plenty of exercises to do as well and you’ll be well away..

    Ogg
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    Lots of interesting maths related stuff on http://plus.maths.org and a lot of the secondary+ stuff on http://nrich.maths.org is worth a look

    leegee
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    If you want some applied stuff, Clutches, gears, fluids, etc freestudy.co.uk
    Has lots of worked examples and exersizes for HNC, HND level engineering modules.

    UrbanHiker
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    http://betterexplained.com covers quite a few topics. Not sure I’d use it in the first instance, but very useful if you can’t get your head round a particular subject.

    iamconfusedagain
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    thanks guys, that should get me started.

    GrahamS
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    Khan Academy +1000

    Brilliant site for learning all kinds of stuff. Has great maths lessons from introductory primary level up to degree level stuff.

    Get an account (free) and it’ll track your progress and give you suitable exercises etc.

    Speeder
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    KA Stroud – Engineering Mathematics

    The only text book I’ve kept from my uni days took me from an A-Level plodder to top of the 1st year engineering maths in a few months. Just work through it from front to back and you’d be able to pass any applied maths exam with ease.

    I’ve kept my copy for helping the kids at some point it’s that good.

    mogrim
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    Loads here, too:

    https://www.coursera.org/browse/math-and-logic?languages=en

    And IME they’re generally very well put together.

    wysiwyg
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    I use this guy at work a lot

    Corbettmaths.com

    midlifecrashes
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    http://1ucasvb.tumblr.com

    This has a load of excellent visualizations.

    prettygreenparrot
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    Coursera. Check out some of the course reviews first though.

    jond
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    Another vote for K A Stroud -the content’s presented simply but with inline examples which help drum it into one’s grey matter. Annoyingly the later revised editions are a bit cumbersome – not that the originals from the 80s were thin, but at least a smaller format that’d fit in a rucsac.

    Retrodirect
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    Another vote for Khan academy and better explained.

    Khan academy’s library of videos is vast, I gave up doing their online learning thing after about getting about 30% through it. It’s just so big it feels endless. Now I pick and choose the videos I’m interested in. I also turned into a bit of a sucker for the fact that they ‘gamified’ it. I’m a red robot with gold shoulderpads.

    The better explained book is quite small but really useful for getting another viewpoint on maths topics. It certainly taught me much more intuitive ways to think about the things I already knew, but it’s not the place to learn the info in the first place.

    YMMV

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