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    Does anyone know of any? A friend needs a 24 hour type of service (or at least really extended evening/weekend hours) for high school subjects. I've only ever used in-person tutoring so don't have know much knowledge about online services, but it appears there are a lot of scams out there.

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    I don�t have personal experience with it but, the DoD provides access to this site for dependants of deployed service members.

    http://www.tutor.com/

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    That site seemed a bit expensive to me when I looked at it, but I didn't actually comparison shop. It's a minimum of about $35 a hour. There is more than one way you can sign up with them, depending on your needs.

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    If cost is a significant concern, she may want to at least take a look at some of the free online tutorials like West TX A&M's Virtual Math Lab: http://www.wtamu.edu/academic/anns/mps/math/mathlab/

    Purdue also has an online writing lab (OWL): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

    Conceptual Chemistry has video tutorials for chemistry online as well here: http://www.conceptualchemistry.com/...&layout=item&id=14&Itemid=57

    HippoCampus is another good site with online lessons in a lot of high school subjects: http://www.hippocampus.org/

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    Our program is 24 hours. Our tutors are experts in the fields of e-learning and e-pedagogy. And we have a free course coming up for people to try us out.

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    The freshman class at my daughter's school is piloting this tutoring service. I believe the reviews are positive though I have not followed it too closely.
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    Originally Posted by delbows
    The freshman class at my daughter's school is piloting this tutoring service. I believe the reviews are positive though I have not followed it too closely.
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    Quick review: DS6 and I had a look and, while the presentation is OK, we were not impressed by the maths - in the few we looked at, the suggested methods were strong on "remember this is how you do it" and weak on any hint about why the suggested procedure was correct. They also sometimes complicated things bizarrely. E.g., they solved "what is 40% of 220?" by writing 40/100 = x/220 and then using something they grandly called the "means extreme property" to cross-multiply and solve! I asked DS how he'd solve that problem, and he said "well, I'd say, what's one-tenth of 220, because that's the same as ten hundredths, 10%, and it's 22, so 40% of 220 is four times that, that's 88". I like his method better!

    [ETA: OK, googling, I see they didn't invent the term "means extremes property" - but really, what is the term good for? Isn't it best just to know what a fraction is and what "equals" means and understand that, and why, you can multiply both sides of an equation by the same number and still have an equation? Seems like an example of making simple stuff hard to us...]

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    Smarthinking is a reputable tutoring service provider. I use their services for courses in Algebra through advanced math (linear algebra, single/multivariate calculus, etc.) and the students seem to like the services. Smarthinking is free for students enrolled in our intermediate to advanced math courses.

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    The Learn to Be Foundation offers free online tutoring for students in grades K-8.

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    Originally Posted by ColinsMum
    They also sometimes complicated things bizarrely. E.g., they solved "what is 40% of 220?" by writing 40/100 = x/220 and then using something they grandly called the "means extreme property" to cross-multiply and solve!

    That's an Americanism, I believe. I nearly failed 6th grade math because we were required to set problems up as "is over of, percent over 100," and solve, with no explanation of why that was the preferred method, and my brain does not work that way. I got every problem wrong for about 3 weeks straight, until my mom pointed out that what is x, is is equals, and of is times. x = 40% * 220 is a much more sensical way to write that problem.

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