I hate you ALEKS!!!

[bricabrac]

Mathway does not run through the steps (unless you purchase) but I have found it to be the most accurate. I have algebrator which I found after pre/interm algebra to be useless. It tends to give wrong answers unless you specifically tell it what to do which defeats the purpose. Its ok to compare answers even some of the graphs are nice, overall its great for highschoolers. I heard about bagatrix. I was actually thinking about one of the calculus and stats software packages but they were just to pricey for this exercise. The crazy thing is at work we have all the programs that do this stuff for us. I'm in research nothing is done manually. We have statisticians (PhD) who set points by clinical data and let the software take it from there. Or, farm out work to consultant agencies. So once my math stuff was complete I just filed away all my notes. So much paper. And why? Will never use it again.

Even my budgets are all programmed formulas in excel. Now there's something you need to learn how to do well...excel formulas.

@bricabrac Yeah, multiplying matrices are the worst! I have some of Bagatrix's software to help me with figuring some of these problems out, but overall the matrices and xlog problems are the hardest for me. I'm not sure if Mathway runs through all of the steps, but the actual software does, which is a big help.

Especially multiplying a 3x4 matrix with a 5x7 matrix (etc). I thought I had it with the lowball 1x3*3x1 problems hehe.

I'll be going back to Staples for more legal pads soon enough! hilarious I have killed so may pens since re-starting ALEKS