With Algebra Tutor, you learn by doing! The course is designed to help you develop mastery and gain a deeper understanding of topics ranging from number practice to building, simplifying, and manipulating algebraic expressions, using formulae, and solving equations - including simultaneous equations.
* Animations, as well as being fun to watch, have been created to help you understand how and why things simplify - you can pause them, restart them, slow them down, or speed them up to see exactly what’s happening!
* Access explanations, hints, examples, and tips from within each task.
* Work at your own pace, practising as much as you like in each section - Algebra Tutor will keep generating more tasks.
* Choose your own route through the course. Algebra Tutor will show you which topics could be started next based on the ones already completed.
* Complete topics to access their revision sections - attempt these as often as you like, they will be different each time!
Algebra Tutor uses 3 modes - each one is an important stage in the learning process, so we’ll move between them many times:
• Show Me Mode - Enter steps, then watch animations to see how they’re done.
• Step Check Mode - We’ll check each step as you walk through a task.
• Independent Mode - Edit any line as you fly through the whole task yourself!
You’re in control of your own learning with Algebra Tutor - once you have mastered tasks in a section, you can choose when to move on. Topics have between 3 and 7 sections each, plus a revision section once completed - if you’d like more practice, or a refresher, topics can be restarted any time without losing your progress.
Most tasks involve some form of algebraic manipulation, with the start of some sections also presenting important information and explanations along with a variety of multiple-choice style tasks. To help you develop your long-term memory, prompts to revise topics are displayed in the completed topics list at increasing time intervals after each completion of a revision section.
We hope to add many more topics and features in the future - see https://algebra‑tutor.xyz for more details. Have fun learning!
The layout and operation of this app took a little getting used to to begin with (I recommend taking a look at the quick start guide before you begin - click the question mark in the top left), but once I got started, I really enjoyed the process, and felt I was being guided through in a way that was really going to help me understand. The explanations were so clear, and felt to me like having my own teacher. Just make sure you look out for the Progress button when you’re working on a section or you could find yourself working on the same topic indefinitely!
