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Are Your Services Free and Without Obligation? Math lessons accessed directly from LearningKeys.com home page at LearningKeys.com are provided free of charge and with no obligation. No membership or email registration is required at this time. We offer these services to support your math studies and provide a demonstration site for our custom software development services. Where Do I Start? Start as directed by your tutor, teacher, or parent. If you are working on your own, 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 often 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 that does not yet have a green button. 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. 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 already 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. How Do The Interactive Tutors Work? They vary in how they work. The idea is a student can go to an "interactive tutor" to experiment and then learn from the interactive tutor as it solves the problems entered by the student. These modules can be entered at the bottom of the home page (at LearningKeys.com), 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." |