LearningKeys.com

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Where Do I Start? Start at the first lesson and then move on to the next. If lessons are easy for you, you will be able to move quickly through them. The practice won't hurt. When an area is more difficult, you will need to complete more problems to achieve an 80% or better average. On most browsers, buttons go from red (less than 50% score), to yellow (between 50 and 80%), to green (greater than 80%.) The idea for a given problem set is that when a student returns to it, he or she goes to the first lesson number without a green button (i.e. a green button means "go to the next level"). Go to Page Top Does LearningKeys.com Require Access to a Tutor or Teacher? No. However, we believe you or your student will get the most out of LearningKeys.com by working with a tutor, teacher, parent or senior student. A student can make considerable progress on his or her own. However, it is beneficial to have someone to ask a question to from time to time. Go to Page Top Why Don't You Have More Instructional Materials? This is a key difference to LearningKeys.com. First of all, we are not a textbook. We believe most (but not all) students are eager to get right to problems and will skip the instructions and lesson materials. Experience shows that this is what happens in the classroom, even if time is provided to the student. Our approach is to put the students straight to work, starting on areas where they are comfortable, and then gradually moving them to harder and harder problems. We believe you learn math by doing it so this is our approach. Our tutoring modules also tend to be dynamic and interactive and make it the responsibility of the student to learn by doing. Go to Page Top How Do The Interactive Tutors Work? They vary in how they work. The idea is a student can go here to experiment and then learn from how the interactive tutor solves the problems entered. These modules can be entered before a student starts a lesson or during the lesson. Often, the student can directly access a module right in the middle of a problem set if he or she wants to try something out or needs a step-by-step explanation. This is a truly interactive approach, we believe unique to LearningKeys.com. Students learn by trying out things, by experimenting, or by exploring. From this, they discover the rules. This is more effective than "being told" and "following cookbooks." Go to Page Top Why Am I Unable to Login Even though I Have an Active Account? One of two things could be happening. (1) Your account may no longer be active. The membership expires within the time originally paid for. Please send us an e-mail (support@learningkeys.com) if you have questions in this regard or see Order Information if you need to renew your order. (2) On a rare occasion you may receive a screen indicating an error upon login, which may be due to one of a variety of causes (the screen will have a lot of system information and be difficult to understand.) In this case, try deleting your cookies via your browser. This re-sets your lessons but ensures that the system can start all over again. For example, with MS Internet Explorer, go to "Tools" and then "Internet Options...". On the "General" tab, you should see a "Delete Cookies" button in a section entitled "Temporary Internet files." Many experienced users will do this from time to time as part of system maintenance. If this doesn't work, please sent us an e-mail at support@learningkeys.com. Go to Page Top I Cannot Afford the Lessons (as Inexpensive as They Might Be!) I Like the Free Sample Lessons. Is there anything I Can Do To Support This Service and Help Ensure it Continues and Expands? YES! Please use our ShoppingKeys.com shopping site to do your online shopping, This site was created to help make the FREE SAMPLE Lessons available for folks who can't afford it. LearningKeys.com is a family owned and run business. Our dream is to make our lessons available to ANYONE who wants to learn mathematics. Go to Page Top

Questions and Answers

Where Do I Start?

Start at the first lesson and then move on to the next. If lessons are easy for you, you will be able to move quickly through them. The practice won't hurt. When an area is more difficult, you will need to complete more problems to achieve an 80% or better average. On most browsers, buttons go from red (less than 50% score), to yellow (between 50 and 80%), to green (greater than 80%.) The idea for a given problem set is that when a student returns to it, he or she goes to the first lesson number without a green button (i.e. a green button means "go to the next level").

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Does LearningKeys.com Require Access to a Tutor or Teacher?

No. However, we believe you or your student will get the most out of LearningKeys.com by working with a tutor, teacher, parent or senior student. A student can make considerable progress on his or her own. However, it is beneficial to have someone to ask a question to from time to time.

Go to Page Top

Why Don't You Have More Instructional Materials?

This is a key difference to LearningKeys.com. First of all, we are not a textbook. We believe most (but not all) students are eager to get right to problems and will skip the instructions and lesson materials. Experience shows that this is what happens in the classroom, even if time is provided to the student. Our approach is to put the students straight to work, starting on areas where they are comfortable, and then gradually moving them to harder and harder problems. We believe you learn math by doing it so this is our approach. Our tutoring modules also tend to be dynamic and interactive and make it the responsibility of the student to learn by doing.

Go to Page Top

How Do The Interactive Tutors Work?

They vary in how they work. The idea is a student can go here to experiment and then learn from how the interactive tutor solves the problems entered. These modules can be entered before a student starts a lesson or during the lesson. Often, the student can directly access a module right in the middle of a problem set if he or she wants to try something out or needs a step-by-step explanation. This is a truly interactive approach, we believe unique to LearningKeys.com. Students learn by trying out things, by experimenting, or by exploring. From this, they discover the rules. This is more effective than "being told" and "following cookbooks."

Go to Page Top

Why Am I Unable to Login Even though I Have an Active Account?

One of two things could be happening.
(1) Your account may no longer be active. The membership expires within the time originally paid for. Please send us an e-mail (support@learningkeys.com) if you have questions in this regard or see Order Information if you need to renew your order.
(2) On a rare occasion you may receive a screen indicating an error upon login, which may be due to one of a variety of causes (the screen will have a lot of system information and be difficult to understand.) In this case, try deleting your cookies via your browser. This re-sets your lessons but ensures that the system can start all over again. For example, with MS Internet Explorer, go to "Tools" and then "Internet Options...". On the "General" tab, you should see a "Delete Cookies" button in a section entitled "Temporary Internet files." Many experienced users will do this from time to time as part of system maintenance. If this doesn't work, please sent us an e-mail at support@learningkeys.com.

Go to Page Top

I Cannot Afford the Lessons (as Inexpensive as They Might Be!) I Like the Free Sample Lessons. Is there anything I Can Do To Support This Service and Help Ensure it Continues and Expands?

YES! Please use our ShoppingKeys.com shopping site to do your online shopping, This site was created to help make the FREE SAMPLE Lessons available for folks who can't afford it. LearningKeys.com is a family owned and run business. Our dream is to make our lessons available to ANYONE who wants to learn mathematics.

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