Where can I find basic math problem trainers?

April 7, 2008 12:59 AM

Where can I find basic math problem trainers?

I'm a non-math kind of person who's been out of school for a while, but I guess after all these years I'm beginning to kind of regret never putting more effort into the subject.

So what I'm looking for is not an archive with complicated or clever problems. I know the best way to improve is to practice over and over so I was wondering if there was any software, java applets, flash apps, etc., that could help me to drill basic arithmetic, or simple algebra problems, over and over.

posted by SammyIva to education (4 comments total)

I haven't tried this out myself, but my first year course listed this as a resource to review concepts leading up to calculus aleks. I just checked, and it does have a free trial.
posted by palionex at 1:21 AM on April 7

For Algebra, try Purplemath.com and quiz generation sites such as Saab's mathonline.missouri.edu.
posted by gregoreo at 6:31 AM on April 7

Math.com is worth a look.
posted by Neiltupper at 8:08 AM on April 7

I know you seem to be looking for online solutions, but I always recommend Schaum's outlines for this sort of thing. They have a lot of problems in them, as well as solutions to the problems. They have them for all sorts of topics: algebra, probability, statistics, calculus, and some higher level topics like abstract algebra and analysis. They have more than one algebra outline depending on your level.

Also, you could go to a used book store and pick up an old algebra textbook. Since you only want to do practice problems, any textbook would do (i.e., it's ok if the explanations are poor if you're just going to do the problems).
posted by bluefly at 1:32 PM on April 7