<p>I hope that everyone is having a great summer. I would like to take math courses online and I am seeking recommendations of great online sites. Please help. Thanks</p>
<p>Art of Problem Solving has some classes, but many of the summer ones have started (or are full). If you have qualified Johns Hopkins CTY, Duke TIPS and Stanford EPGY have some online classes too. If you want to play around more for fun check out Khan Academy. No cost, no credit.</p>
<p>ugh… not gonna lie, CTY classes did not work out at all for me. Very inconsistent mentors, and kinda expensive. If you can get help from a school, look at MIT OCW, Harvard OLI, or any of the other universities that have online course programs (a Google search will lead you to tons of places and thousands of courses).</p>
<p>Thank you all for the great recommendations. Any direct experiences with online courses?</p>
<p>Yes, CTY classes are expensive. My kids have not taken any. My 8th grader took a weekend seminar from AOPS last year and liked it. I have heard good things about AOPS classes. Not sure about TIPS or Stanford (kind of pricy too). Some of this depends on how old you are and what you are looking for. I am more familiar with programs for MS students.</p>
<p>There are a number of colleges who offer online classes as the other poster mentioned. If you search for homeschooling math you might find some resources that way too.</p>
<p>My kids have had an excellent experience with CTY. They work independently and do not require any assistance from their teachers. I get weekly emails from their teachers about their progress, with solutions to any problems they missed. All have consistently received the 99-100% on all math subsections of the ERB’s (same testing company as ISEE).</p>
<p>I was not impressed with the one math class my son took online with CTY. He’s also taken language classes through CTY, and those were uniformly great, but not so much on math. I felt they didn’t really teach him the math that they were covering. He’s naturally good at math and kind of figured it on his own, so it still ended up being a benefit to him, but if you’re just going to end up teaching yourself the math concepts, then I don’t think it’s worth the money.</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.khanacademy.org/[/url]”>https://www.khanacademy.org/</a></p>
<p>From Wikipedia -</p>
<p>The Khan Academy is a non-profit educational website created in 2006 by educator Salman Khan, a graduate of MIT and Harvard Business School. The stated mission is to provide “a free world-class education for anyone anywhere”.</p>
<p>The website supplies a free online collection of more than 4,000 micro lectures via video tutorials stored on YouTube teaching mathematics, history, healthcare, medicine, finance, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, economics, cosmology, organic chemistry, American civics, art history, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and computer science. Khan Academy has delivered over 240 million lessons</p>
<p>[Khan</a> Academy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy]Khan”>Khan Academy - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Endorsed by Bill Gates & Microsoft, Google, and many more.</p>
<p>CTY uses the Thinkwell online math courses, which you can subscribe to for about 150 dollars a year (unlimited use). You don’t get a personal tutor to grade your tests, but everything else is the same. In fact, from Thinkwell you can order the workbooks which are handy for future reference.</p>
<p>I did an EPGY online course (or at least, started one). Only do it if you have good self-motivation. Honestly, it’s not very exciting. For each lesson, the teacher explains the topic (recording) and there are practice questions to do as well as textbook to use as a reference. At the end of a unit, there is an online test as well. I did learn a lot from it, not enough to skip a class or anything, but I was introduced to several topics we covered this year. I never completed it… (I have no resolve :)) I would highly recommend it, however.</p>
<p>Thank you very much for the wonderful replies. We are still in the process of deciding about the best online source.</p>
<p>My son is using ALEKS ([ALEKS</a> – Assessment and Learning, K-12, Higher Education, Automated Tutor, Math](<a href=“ALEKS – Adaptive Learning & Assessment for Math, Chemistry, Statistics & More”>http://www.aleks.com/)) to study pre-calc this summer. It gave him an assessment when he started the course, so that he would not have to repeat subjects he had already mastered. It can be done independently or with a tutor. He can go at any pace he chooses. It is also very affordable: $19.99 per month. I found out about it because our local public school district uses it when kids choose to do independent study.</p>