In Dundalk... good at maths... want some easy money... call me!!!

Gerry.L

I already asked this in a more 'appropiate' forum but it doesnt seem to be getting me anywhere, I figure theres probably a better chance of finding someone here.

So pretty much Im looking for some home grinds (Dundalk obviously enough). These wont be like average grinds. Im not a student... or I dont have any exams to pass. Im just crap at maths to say the least. Ive got addition, subtraction and multplication down.... division is a bit iffy... fractions, precentages and all that forget it.

Anyway, Im hoping to get a long term grinds teacher, maybe weekly for a year or two (or longer if need be). My end goal would be to work with velocity, angles, trajectory etc... (incase your wondering... yeh it is for target shooting).

I should probably say now, Im the sort of person who doesnt like short-cuts... so when doing the maths I wont want to leave any area out. I really will want to know all "the ins and outs".

Oh and I dont care if your a teacher or not.... if you know the stuff thats good enough for me. But please, no time wasters.

EDIT: THought I better just mention this before someone flames me for not looking at the sticky at the top of this page on grinds. BUt I have called a few grinds teachers and none of them were interested in teaching someone so far behind

bnt

Have you considered posting this on the DKIT forum? That way you're more likely to find someone in the same town, at least. DKIT has an Engineering department that may have someone who'd like to help.

Also, I keep hearing good things about the videos on Khan Academy - there are some in the Arithmetic section that may be of use, if you have the bandwidth.

LeixlipRed

The Khan Academy stuff is amazing, any reasonably intelligent person could learn all the basics from that. It's all well laid out, the ordering is excellent.

Gerry.L

Thanks for the advice lads. I have already seen the Khan academy but was hoping to use that as support material in addition to personal lessons.

As for posting in DKIT, it was a close call on whether to post here or there. But I figured here would be the better choice... :cool: if I dont get anything decent from here I'll give that forum a go.

sponsoredwalk

I'll assume you've done it in school at one time in some form or another so
I really doubt it'd take a year to work with things like velocity and angles.

My suggestions to you would be to use the money you were going to
spend on 2 year grinds - which would be a lot!, on an online course from
www.thinkwell.com from Ed Burger's math videos. I was lucky to find all
those videos on www.5min.com when they had them available but they
took them down Really, khanacademy.org is good but those videos
are just the best. I see they are a little expensive so I don't really advise
them normally but honestly the guy is a genius at teaching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhVTbUrrMNo

This is the kind of stuff you're in for But he really gets to the core of
everything he does. I think his summation (∑ ) of all of calculus in 20
minutes is great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX_is9LzFSY

But, as with all things mathematical, being an observer just wont cut it.
Serge Lang - Basic Mathematics
A.J. Sadler - Understanding Pure Mathematics
A.J. Sadler - Understanding Mechanics
These three books would probably be your best bet, from your first
description these are the books you're aiming towards. Another great book
I'd advise, but only as a supplement, is Jan Gullberg - Mathematics: From
the Birth of Numbers. From what I've seen this material is the cream of
the crop at this level, have a read through the contents and the
reviews and judge for yourself. The thinkwell stuff really is great
though, he emphasizes the importance of the fundamental things, e.g.
equality!

I'm from Dundalk and studying maths in college but I think what you're asking for requires patience and hard work on your own rather than a grinds teacher.

If you want to reach the level where you study trajectories of particles as you have stated, you'll need to understand the maths, and the only thing a teacher could do is accelerate this process.

PaulieBoy

Get in touch with your local VEC and they will sort ya with FREE numeracy tuition that will get you to a decent level, I'd then go follow, formally or informally, the junior cert and leaving certs maths and then off you pop to college :-)

rccaulfield

sponsoredwalk wrote: »

I'll assume you've done it in school at one time in some form or another so
I really doubt it'd take a year to work with things like velocity and angles.

My suggestions to you would be to use the money you were going to
spend on 2 year grinds - which would be a lot!, on an online course from
www.thinkwell.com from Ed Burger's math videos. I was lucky to find all
those videos on www.5min.com when they had them available but they
took them down Really, khanacademy.org is good but those videos
are just the best. I see they are a little expensive so I don't really advise
them normally but honestly the guy is a genius at teaching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhVTbUrrMNo

This is the kind of stuff you're in for But he really gets to the core of
everything he does. I think his summation (∑ ) of all of calculus in 20
minutes is great!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX_is9LzFSY

But, as with all things mathematical, being an observer just wont cut it.
Serge Lang - Basic Mathematics
A.J. Sadler - Understanding Pure Mathematics
A.J. Sadler - Understanding Mechanics
These three books would probably be your best bet, from your first
description these are the books you're aiming towards. Another great book
I'd advise, but only as a supplement, is Jan Gullberg - Mathematics: From
the Birth of Numbers. From what I've seen this material is the cream of
the crop at this level, have a read through the contents and the
reviews and judge for yourself. The thinkwell stuff really is great
though, he emphasizes the importance of the fundamental things, e.g.
equality!

I'm sorry but those videos are SHOCKING! He flies through material thats already complicated to begin with. A person starting out would have to pause that after 30 secs go off and study what he said for a few days and come back and repeat- terrible instruction imo! This guy is a good patient teacher.-
http://www.youtube.com/user/chychochycho

sponsoredwalk

Lol, them videos are not supposed to teach you anything

The calculus video I put up is the very last video of the calculus 1
course they've got, I just put it up to give you a flavour of the guys
humour as opposed to something you'll learn from. I assume the algebra
video is also at the end of the algebra course.

This one is classic, I mentioned in my first post he focuses on the basics,
such as equality, and here again he does it!

Here's another example:

If these are too advanced then don't worry, once you get to the point
where you understand what's going on in these videos you'll be flying &
his videos really do start from the fundamentals.

One more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA49XpA6Kjs