Feasibility of actually learning new math via ALEKS?

[laoshijeff]

Just like programming, learning math is all about doing rather than sitting in a lecture. I guarantee there will be a lot of doing in ALEKS Precalculus!

With ALEKS, you'll start off with an Algebra and Geometry review that will set the stage for the rest of the ALEKS course so you may not learn anything "new" there. However, you will learn - that's what it was designed for.

There will be times where you'll have to do the same type of problem 5, 6, 7 times depending on how often you need to press the Explain button or get a question wrong. It seems to have an algorithm in mind to make you repeat until you want to hit your head against something or, in my case, develop a math migraine.

You'll learn - guaranteed. In fact, that's why I'm ok that it's not going as fast as I'd like (I'm only 38% done after a week of study and I wish I was further along). I want to eventually take Calculus and all the Calc lectures I watch, the same thing comes up - it's not the Calculus that's hard, it's the being a master of everything you learned in Precalculus that makes it hard.

Good luck in the world of ALEKS!