Hey! So, sometimes adult learners sign up for a university-level math class not realizing how serious our courses are or how much foundational knowledge is necessary (or how much of it they never actually learned during school, or how much of it they've forgotten since then).
That's totally fine and all it means is you may need to start off in a lower course to shore up your missing foundations [1].
There have been so many people in this situation that we actually designed a Mathematical Foundations course sequence specifically for adults who want to get up to speed or relearn math skills they have forgotten (from fractions through calculus) as preparation for upper-level university math courses. More info here: https://www.mathacademy.com/adult-students.
Please do let me know if you have any follow-up questions about that or if anything is unclear. I'm always happy to chat with people who are serious about learning math.
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[1] Note that we do check for missing foundations during diagnostics, and any that we find we'll add to your learning plan -- but currently there's a limit to how far we look back. For Linear Algebra, we only look back to the beginning of Algebra 2. So if you're rusty on any Algebra 1 stuff -- factoring, quadratic equations, systems of linear equations, etc. -- or arithmetic stuff like working with fractions/exponents, then you'll need to drop back to a lower course to shore up those foundations.
Sounds like a plan! If you run into any issues at all, feel free to ping me on X/Twitter (https://x.com/justinskycak) or shoot me an email (justin@mathacademy.com). The first piece of the puzzle to learning math is just getting on the rails at the appropriate level and I want to make sure we help you get over that hump.
That's totally fine and all it means is you may need to start off in a lower course to shore up your missing foundations [1].
There have been so many people in this situation that we actually designed a Mathematical Foundations course sequence specifically for adults who want to get up to speed or relearn math skills they have forgotten (from fractions through calculus) as preparation for upper-level university math courses. More info here: https://www.mathacademy.com/adult-students.
Please do let me know if you have any follow-up questions about that or if anything is unclear. I'm always happy to chat with people who are serious about learning math.
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Footnotes
[1] Note that we do check for missing foundations during diagnostics, and any that we find we'll add to your learning plan -- but currently there's a limit to how far we look back. For Linear Algebra, we only look back to the beginning of Algebra 2. So if you're rusty on any Algebra 1 stuff -- factoring, quadratic equations, systems of linear equations, etc. -- or arithmetic stuff like working with fractions/exponents, then you'll need to drop back to a lower course to shore up those foundations.