As any who read even a fraction of my posts, one of the Big Exclamation Marks! of someone at my stage of life is that we have a wonderful child, now 4 1/2. As Jenny is trained (Master's from NYU) in elementary education, we long since had been well ready for homeschooling in remote Alaska were we ever to have offspring....
pre-Covid, et cetera.
I, not surprisingly, am the one charged with science, math and engineering. And, while Gus has gloried in the real-life examples we have created in, for example, the mechanical advantages of pulley systems, and working with the Jenny-approved & -mandated number blocks, and so forth,
I have at the same time found myself beguiled by the internet-swamped adverts for the mathematical "courses" presented by brilliantDOTorg.
Has anyone first-hand experience with this for-profit operation? Does its full curriculum match the teasers they show in their ads? Is it a slippery slope from their free trial into a spendy? very spendy? byzantine? cost structure? How would you rate it against the varied lectures that Khan Academy offers?
You may thank me for not posting this in the Big thread.....
, but I'm going to place a breadcrumb in it now.