http://www.youtube.com/user/nptelhrd

lectures from some indian university(in english)

most are around 50 minutes each.
topics: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=nptelhrd&view=playlists


http://www.youtube.com/user/khanacademy

not AS hardcore.

covers a lot of topics on a basic level, most are for high school courses, AP, etc.

This post was edited by 011011100101110111 on Jan 20 2009 05:20pm

Thats the Indian Institute of Technology -- one of the most respected universities in the world for engineering, more so than America's Ivy League schools. In Indian high schools they tend not to teach material that is as in-depth as our AP courses go, and they cover a lot of basics from almost every subject.

i'm moving to india?

edit: actually, i thought their high/primary/secondary schools were more rigorous. don't they have 5th graders learning calculus?

This post was edited by 011011100101110111 on Jan 20 2009 07:39pm

I prefer using MIT's lectures.

oh yeah? where are those?


or are you insinuating that you're in MIT? 16 huh?

This post was edited by 011011100101110111 on Jan 20 2009 08:31pm

Haha stereotypes -- nope, they learn more broad and basic stuff in grade school -- that however doesn't mean its not rigorous. While I was in elementary & middle school, my parents made me study my mathematics from Indian text books of the same grade level, and it gave me a pretty good founding. I think thats one of America's greatest downfalls, they produce students who know a LOT of material -- but they don't produce people who have a firm grounding in the basics and can from there, think on their own. I mean just take a look at a few good Russian or Indian text books for algebra, and you'll see Algebra 2 level math that you can't solve without a great deal of effort -- theres no new material in those books, its just that its tougher to solve and requires more creativity to solve.
My parents also refused to let me use a calculator until 6th grade which also helped a lot, in India they pretty much don't use calculators at all until high school -- and even then they don't use graphing calcs.

http://www.youtube.com/user/MIT

and no, I dont go to MIT.
I just use these videos because my physics teacher cannot teach.

shit's good.

Not in school. A lot of Asian cultures enrol their students in extra programs because having a social life is not as important as being able to mathematically model everything from contours to the shape of your shit.

i saw hardcore and thought it was porn

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