Online Learning

Brainetics Review

I have to admit this is one of the first reviews I’ve done based on the recommendation of a student. Last spring, one of my students came in completely psyched about a present her parents had given her, Brainetics. I’d never even heard of Brainetics, so she had to get me up to speed. It turns out that Brainetics is a DVD program designed to teach kids how to do complex math mentally.

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Ed2Go Review

Click here to visit Ed2Go and see their latest course offerings . I’ve been studying dozens of reviews of the Ed2Go online classes. It seems pretty clear that there are two competing schools of thought, and from what I’ve read online, the members of those schools are pretty consistent. Students of the Ed2Go.com classes seem to really love them. College professors are less than thrilled. Here’s a look at the reasons behind each.

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Virtual Nerd Review

Visit the Virtual Nerd website to subscribe. While I was at the NCTM annual meeting in Indianapolis, I saw a whole host of online math programs touted as a way to improve student learning. There was one that stood out, Virtual Nerd. Once I saw it in action, I knew I had to do a Virtual Nerd Review. Virtual Nerd is free for teachers, so I recently signed up for a free teacher account myself to review Virtual Nerd’s features in more depth.

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MathTutorDVD.com’s Statistics and Probability DVD

To get the best price on Jason Gibson’s award winning Math Tutor DVD series, visit the Math Tutor DVD website. Yet another post in my series reviewing Math Tutor DVD. In this post, you can see some samples from the Statistics and Probability DVD’s. This is a little different from most of the other DVD’s in the series. Most of the others would be just as appropriate for a high school class as a college class.

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MathTutorDVD.com’s Physics DVD

To get the best price on Jason Gibson’s award winning Math Tutor DVD series, visit the Math Tutor DVD website. Here’s another post in my series reviewing Math Tutor DVD. Finally, I’m turning to the sciences. As I’ve mentioned before, before Math Tutor DVD creator Jason Gibson was churning out this popular series, he was an engineer. As a result, he’s had quite a bit of experience in science classes like physics and chemistry.

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MathTutorDVD.com’s Trigonometry and Pre-Calculus DVD’s

To get the best price on Jason’s Gibson’s Trigonometry and Pre-Calculus DVD, click here. After a big break, I’m resuming my series profiling Jason Gibson’s Math Tutor DVD tutoring program. This time, I’ve got information on his Trigonometry and Pre-Calculus DVD’s. This is one of the shorter sets in the series–just two disks and five hours. That said, you’ll find that the topics that give most students problems are covered.

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MathTutorDVD.com’s Geometry DVD’s

For the best price on Jason Gibson’s Geometry DVD Tutor, click here. Continuing my series looking at the options available with the MathTutorDVD.com sequence of math DVD’s, I’m looking at the Geometry DVD. Geometry can be a tough subject for a lot of students. It’s a big change from algebra, involving more visual reasoning and logical thinking. As a result, a lot of parents find their child needs a little extra help with some geometry tutoring.

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MathTutorDVD.com Algebra DVD’s

For the best price on  Jason Gibson’s award winning MathTutorDVD.com’s Algebra DVD’s, click here. Continuing with my profile of Jason Gibson’s Math Tutor DVD series, this post outlines the highlights of his Algebra DVD’s. There are actually several Algebra DVD courses in the Math Tutor DVD series: Algebra I, Algebra II, Advanced Algebra, and Matrix Algebra, which a lot of schools call Linear Algebra. MathTutorDVD.com’s Spectrum of Algebra DVD Courses That’s quite a range of courses.

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MathTutorDVD.com Calculus DVD’s

To get the best price on Jason’s Gibson’s Calculus DVD, click here. A while back, I wrote a Math Tutor DVD review of Jason Gibson’s math tutorial DVD series. Now, I’m going to try to get a few overviews of the individual math courses on DVD. First up is Math Tutor DVD’s calculus DVD. Whether you’re taking AP Calculus (AB or BC), or any of the standard college calculus courses, this calculus tutoring DVD series covers the lessons you’re going to learn.

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Math Tutor DVD Review

Click here to check the price on Jason Gibson’s award winningMath Tutor DVD series . Lately, I’ve noticed people searching TPM for information about Math Tutor DVD. I try to respond to what readers are looking for, so I wanted to get a Math Tutor DVD review up. Frankly, I didn’t know much about it, so I had to do my homework. I had heard it was a popular math video series with homeschoolers, but I didn’t know much more than that.

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