CSM Math - what's it like?

[studyingfortests]

I highly recommend it. Took it several years ago... I'm a total math phobe... and was able to knock out the whole thing in 10 or 15 hours over a weekend. And as others have said, really useful and practical applications of things as well. It gives you an opportunity to try to show mastery of a specific skill by answering, I think, 4 questions. If you answer all of them correctly, you never see that particular skill again, because you've mastered it. If you miss one or more, it shows you a bunch of stuff to learn that skill, and then gives you another chance to answer foucr (different) questions all correctly. If you pass, it's mastery and you never see it again and go on to something else. If you don't, it goes on to another topic, and the topic you had difficulty with shows back up later on in the course.

I had one or two areas that, for whatever reason, were tough for me. They kept showing up every now and again, until I only had those topics left, and I was able to attain mastery and complete the course. Someone with more math competency than I have would probably finish it in much shorter time.

The CSMLearn folks are also just lovely people. I was trying (unsuccessfully) to get Excelsior to accept my CSMLearn class for my math credit, but because I took it before they made their agreement with CSM Learn, even though it was the exact same course, Excelsior wouldn't budge, even after one of the principals of CSMLearn interceded herself.

So... Excelsior's stupidity landed me at TESU, where I ended up probably happier anyway.