How Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair

Re:How Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair by 8bitsrule on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:28PM (#43270353)

>It's absolutely great but it's also very expensive.

I could use a couple of refresher courses. When I noticed the price, I next looked for an option to sample what I should expect for the money. Didn't find one. No trust but verify option?

I quickly concluded that this 'personal experience' story is a carefully-constructed native advertisement.

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Re:How Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair by ABS on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @01:40PM (#43270493)

you could check the website slightly less quickly and see you can cancel at any time within the first 30 days and get a full refund

https://www.mathacademy.com/terms-of-service#cancellation

It's what I did 10 days ago before deciding to try it out

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Re:How Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair by lazyasciiart on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:27PM (#43271859)

I don’t trust those plans - it’s easy to forget to cancel it, and most products are simply hoping that you will forget. If I actually think I will want to cancel it, I will not sign up for services with this pattern. It’s a simple rule that saves a lot of mental overhead.

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Re:How Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair by jv22222 on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:42PM (#43272070)

That is not the case with MA they will refund you with a click of a button and it will cost them money since stripe keep their cut and don’t refund it to MA.

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Re:How Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair by ABS on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @03:40PM (#43272037)

and that is fine, it's your choice but has nothing to do with the other party not offering an option to test, change your mind and not spend money.

I personally just put a reminder in my calendar for all such things and be done with it.

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Re:How Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair by tptacek on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @08:11PM (#43274982)

Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email [email protected] and we'll look at the data.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:How Math Academy pulled me out of the Valley of Despair by cultofmetatron on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:27PM (#43283408)

I use it.

the format basicly consists of a list of modules (lessons or reviews) to work though. each lesson module starts with a short test on how to solve the problem it teaches, 1-2 worked problems and 2-3 problesm then more short text on how to solve some variation of the problem coupled with 2 solved problems and 2-3 for you to solve. review modules just give you a few problems to solve. if you can solve 3 without making any mistakes, it will finish the module and you can go tot he next one. every few days you are presented with a quiz that tests what you know and genearates review modules for you to go though before retesting you.

overall, it seems spartan but its effective. you spend most of your time actuvly engaing with the problems with just enough information to solve them. the structure of the courses are setup such that you learn and master prerequisites before you are presented a lesson so there isn't much of the frustration you might find where a problem implicitly assumes you know something you don't. That a big reason they start you with a placement test.

overall I'd say the $50 price tag is worth it. its very efficient vs reading and working though problem sets where you don't necessarily know what you need to know to solve them. you're not spending time figuring out what your knowledge gaps are as it fulls them in as you go for you.

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