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Khan Academy - www.khanacademy.org/math
Let's start with an obvious winner. And it has that magic word - free! Khan Academy offers courses for children K-12, in a very organized and step-by-step way. That means that if you are a parent who feels intimidated by math (especially as your children get older), you have a resource that can not only help your child, but can help you, too.
I taught adult ed and adult ESL classes during my last 15 years in the classroom. This included GED courses in math, science, language arts, and social studies. It doesn't matter why - the older teens and adults in the GED program had not mastered the concepts needed to pass the GED test. Maybe they moved around a lot when they were younger and did not receive consistent training. Perhaps some family situation or crisis interrupted their schooling. Perhaps (like many of my adult students) they had moved to the U.S. from another country and had only managed a 6th grade education in their homeland. So now they had children bringing home assignments they themselves didn't understand.
The beauty of Khan Academy (aside from being free) is that it offers sequential instruction that covers every aspect of mathematics from K-12, available 24/7 (since in is online). One plus of using online learning has always been the ability to get lessons on demand and be able to repeat the content, pause it, back it up and watch it again, because the Internet never gets tired and the video lessons never get tired (like a teacher might).
I taught adult ed and adult ESL classes during my last 15 years in the classroom. This included GED courses in math, science, language arts, and social studies. It doesn't matter why - the older teens and adults in the GED program had not mastered the concepts needed to pass the GED test. Maybe they moved around a lot when they were younger and did not receive consistent training. Perhaps some family situation or crisis interrupted their schooling. Perhaps (like many of my adult students) they had moved to the U.S. from another country and had only managed a 6th grade education in their homeland. So now they had children bringing home assignments they themselves didn't understand.
The beauty of Khan Academy (aside from being free) is that it offers sequential instruction that covers every aspect of mathematics from K-12, available 24/7 (since in is online). One plus of using online learning has always been the ability to get lessons on demand and be able to repeat the content, pause it, back it up and watch it again, because the Internet never gets tired and the video lessons never get tired (like a teacher might).