Math stinks! I hate math! When will I ever use this stuff?!? Ah, the ever popular sounds of the young algebra student. These sounds have an undertone that intrigued me to research algebra help videos comparatively to live tutors. The questions many of us have on our minds when we discover that our youngster needs the addition of a tutor to their current education is; “can I afford it?”, “how far will I have to drive to get to a good tutor?”, “how long will my child need tutoring?”, and most importantly, “is it effective?” The purpose of this article is to expose the alternatives available for your child’s need for additional algebra help.
I’m sure the first thing on a lot of our minds is the idea of attaining quality algebra help is not going to be cheap. It’s unfortunate with the economy the way it is, some of us that don’t have deep pockets are left with the struggle of getting a good tutor. The unfortunate thing is that some tutors are aware of this and take the money side as apposed to the educating your child point of view. This seems to be popular in smaller towns where the tutors are few and far between, which means you may need to travel far lengths to get to a good tutor.
Driving a farther distance to get to a good tutor, however, is always worth the trip if your child is going to get the proper education needs. But what if the tutor could come to you? Wouldn’t that be more expensive you ask? Maybe, but what if the tutor was an interactive video? Ah, we do have options. Now we are getting somewhere. So you don’t have a tutor that lives close by and you don’t have the luxury to drive out of town to get to a tutor and the available tutors that will come to your home are still a bit out of budget. We are then left with the interactive videos. But still, you are again left with another posing question. Is the video tutor as good as a live one?
Some say that whatever you invest in whether it is 1 dollar or 1 million, it’s only expensive if it doesn’t work. Typically from what I was able to find on my research of this question was that on the whole the video tutors cost far less than the live tutors. In some cases the video tutors were, in my opinion more effective than I could find in the live tutors and I live in a fairly well populated strong educated area. The reason for this was that the question that kept going through my brain was what if I needed far more tutoring than the rates and my billfold allowed for what I was paying? Well this is why the video tutor was my inclination. If I got stuck on something, I could replay the DVD or software until I got it right and there was no additional cost. Hmm, I like the sound of that….
As you can see, these points are not as obscure in nature as they seem. It really is preference to one’s choice really. As with the video tutors, what kinds of guarantees do you get on your investment? Now I’m not saying that it’s solely in the hands of the tutor where the accountability of learning is handed. The child has to want to go the extra mile. Hand in hand, live tutors are perfect and so are video tutors. But if a tool is bought and not used, is it really a tool?
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