Math Practice Software? (not calculator software)

I have been trying to search around but I can't seems to be able to find a good program to practice a variety of maths on a software. I'm trying to find one specifically like a flash card where the question come up and I have to solve it to get to the next question rather than reading through the pages to solve it (I have some variety of math school books from thrift stores to do that in).

I know that there are search results in this forum for math programs but all of the relevant post that I could read up on was related to calculator and not something that I could practice math in my mind with.

I'm 22 but I'm a bit ashamed to admit that with a few (only a few though) examples from a algebra 2 workbook, I have problems trying to remember how to solves it. (Mostly cause I'm deaf and went to a deaf schools, I should not have left the public schools cause deaf schools generally are lazy :S )

So I'm hoping to acclimate myself to doing math problems and get back to my old speed with learning math that I had back in high school. I used to love math and always competed to have the best grade but like I mentioned, deaf schools in general doesn't teaches enough or very wells (the pre-calculus class that I had in 11th grade was apparently the 2nd half of the algebra 2).

P.S. sorry about the mentions of my old school, I generally have a lot of regrets from that school for educational reasons :/

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Originally Posted by Radscientist

P.S. sorry about the mentions of my old school, I generally have a lot of regrets from that school for educational reasons :/

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Never mind pal:wave:

So, you need a some kind of a math practicing software. How about the MatLab. Using that you can work from beginning to advance level of maths. Lots of things. Mathematical graphs as well.

I wish I could help you out, but I don't know of any software like that. You could make up problems yourself and check them with MatLab, Mathematica, Maple, {insert computer algebra system here}, but that's... a little odd. I remember there were some programs like that for the TI-83 calculators, but they were pretty simple.

Wow. My memory works in mysterious ways.... I was looking for regular software programs in my mind and not web-based programs. So it turns out I do know of some software to help you out, lol.

In that case, some examples would be Calculus on the Web (which includes a Pre-Calc section), and ALEKS (which includes mostly Algebra). I'm sure there are many other sites like these, but hopefully they'll get you started.


I hear you on the silliness of a high school pre-calc class. I took algebra 2 (year long class) and pre-calc (2nd semester only) concurrently, and for a few days we went over the exact same material. Pre-calc was a review of algebra 2 with 2 weeks of the most basic limits tagged on at the end for no apparent reason.

In my opinion, pre-calc should introduce rigorous proofs, examine functions and operators in detail, and then get the student's feet wet with a few limits and perhaps the power rule of differential calculus. I'll admit, Calculus is Algebra on steroids, but why shouldn't students be expected to learn their Algebra in the 3 or 4 years they're taught it? For some, Calculus is a step above previous math in difficulty--why not actually prepare students for it? I have no idea. <End Rant>

Few times I heard about Mathematica, and people says it use lower memory. I can't about that confidentially, because I never use it.