How to Learn Math at Hotmath

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By Tima Vlasto
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Whether you are a student who needs help with your math homework, or a parent who wants to find a tutor for your child, there is a website, to come to your rescue 24 hours of the day!

Hotmath is a website run by math teachers and college professors, who wanted to make it easy to learn math and have tutoring available all hours of the day.

It is based on the premise that if immediate tutorial help is available, one's math learning abilities will be greatly improved.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

It's easy to learn math at Hotmath. On your first visit to the website; (in resources), click on the tab corresponding to your status, on the top of the page, for either “Student,” “Parent,” or “Educator.”

On each of these pages are introductory videos that give an overview of the Hotmath website.
Step 2

On the main page of the website, click on the left column of the window to “Find Your Textbook."

The categories are: Middle Math, Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2, Science, Trigonometry, Pre-calculus, College Algebra and finally, Calculus.

After you find your textbook, a new window opens with the pages of your book. Click the left and right cursor to the page of your textbook, and click on the exercise number. Only the odd-numbered questions are supplied, but you can deduce the answers to the even-numbered ones, from the help and tutoring on the odd-numbered questions.

When you click on the question number, a new window opens which shows the problem to be solved.

There are green, "up and down" arrows underneath the question. If you click on the down arrow, it will give you the first hint, to help you solve the problem and then a second and third hint until the problem is solved. If you click on the “More Help” tag, you will find video resources, review pages and other learning materials.
Step 3

You can also click on the “Online Tutor” tab and communicate with a “live” tutor any time of the day.

The tutor communicates with your through an IM chat with a white interactive chalkboard. They teach you how to solve the problem and are not just there for the answers.
Step 4

The “Online Videos” are taught by college professors and are complete lesson plans for all math levels.

There are other resources for educators that range from: practice exercises to use in computer lab, and a bunch of practice tests for all math levels.

For the rest of us, there are the coolest math games: “Catch the Fly,” “Numbercop,” Algebra vs. the Cockroach,” and “Factortris.”
Step 5

The Online tutors are $20 for 50 minutes.

The Video lessons are $29 for free use for an entire year.

Though the odd-numbered step-by-step answers are free; if you want all the step-by-step answers for every available math textbook, you can buy a personal subscription for $49 a year.