CSM Math - what's it like?

[studyingfortests]

It's so interesting for me to read the comments of the folks that didn't like CSMLearn so much. I guess it just goes to different learning styles. I am a confirmed math phobe, but I can do a lot of basic math, including fairly complex percentages and fairly large addition and subtraction, in my head. And I understand some, but not a lot, of algebraic stuff. Not much beyond that. And I generally do pretty terrible on any math-focused tests, even if they are fairly basic. (The math readiness test that's part of TESU's SOS-110, for example, I got a lower score and it wanted me to spend hours doing exercises. I bitched, and my professor waived it for me.)

And with all of that utter lack of math ability, I found CSMLearn to be painless. I wouldn't call it "fun", but it kept me going enough that I knocked the whole thing out over a weekend, maybe 16 or 18 hours total. There were several areas that kept coming back 3 or 4 times, but I eventually mastered them (at least enough to get the "black belt").

Compared with any other college-level math course I've taken or attempted to take, CSMLearn, for me, was a walk in the park.