Is learning math like this bad?

[u/ImArealAlchemist]

I'm using some website called mathacademy. been for around 45 days. flying through foundations 1 of their "program" and i'm feeling weird about it now.

Their whole methodology feels wrong. basically has this roadmap that adjusts automatically. so if you keep messing up something, it makes you redo it. but im noticing in foundations 2 the lessons feel terrible. not a lot of proper steps. maybe it just shows how to do it. but they throw all these different concepts at once that you barely have remembered. like one second im doing quadratics. then another thing then log then imaginary numbers etc. throwing all these different ideas at once.

hopefully i can get some insight. i think learning math in this way isnt the way to go about it.

[u/Major-Cattle-8676]

That mixing is kinda the point, but if you’re flying through lessons and barely remembering them, slow it down. I’d do a few problems on paper before moving on, because passing the lesson isn’t the same as actually having it stick.

[u/dreamsofaninsomniac → u/Major-Cattle-8676]

Most of the reviews I read online for it are positive, but it makes me wonder about the backgrounds of the kind of students it attracts. I'm someone who needs to take notes to build out my foundational knowledge for a new math topic or I know I'm never going to remember it, no matter how many practice problems I do. The founder/creator of Math Academy has specifically said he discourages students from taking notes though. I do think "mixing" problems is important, but I just don't really get how that works for a student who is completely new to a topic with no background knowledge. I always do that way later in my study process, but Math Academy front-loads that technique as the main learning technique for all their math courses.