Algebra Homework Help

Scholarity is moving rapidly towards launching a homework helper for Algebra students which is pretty exciting news. As a parent one of the most frustrating things to me was that the textbook didn't have enough practice problems to really help students get comfortable wtih the material and even if there was, there was no way to see if students were on track with the problem.

The Scholarity homework helper will have some great practice problems and help on every step of the algebra problem - not just a righ or wrong answer at the bottom - but actual help throughout.

Stay tuned as we hope to have this launched in late February!

Save the parents - digitze the textbook

Last week I paid $150 for a college Algebra 2 text book. There isn’t a used one available because this is the first of the new edition of algebra 2 text book because of all the radical developments going on in algebra right now – none of which I can find in any google search. With college expenses so high and technology making everything else much more affordable, why are we forced to shell out this kind of money for a basic college course?

It is 2009, our kids are used to reading everything online yet we still have new editions of college texts that they are forced to purchase. But change is coming fast and by 2012 we may be referring to text book publishers the way we talk about buggy whip manufacturers.

As Edutopia points out, economics are will drive this change. Publishers are going to have to find ways to create different revenue streams from their content. I don’t think open source will replace them but it is going to force them to radically change their business models.