Feedback from Purplemath's Visitors

"THANK YOU. I was just talking to my two boys at dinner asking my high school junior to advise my 8th grader how to do well in math despite the fact that the very good math teachers at their very good school seem to think kids can intuit math if they are 'strong.' The junior told the 8th grader, 'Teach yourself by going on Purplemath. That's what I did the summer before 10th grade and it made the difference.' You've created a great resource for the verbal kid who needs to go step by step in words and won't necessarily intuit the concepts from problems." —K.

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"All too often writers don't do a good job of sticking to the point. Your lessons in Purple Math are crisp and direct. They've proven invaluable." —R.W.

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"Your site is more helpful than my text, or any of the learning resources I've come across so far." —J.B.

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"I have literally been sitting in my algebra class and crying because I don't understand and everyone else does and the professor can't (or won't) take the time to help me individually. Your website has helped me more than any other website and is *exponentially* better than my textbook." —L.J.C.

"I will never understand why professors can not, or will not, speak, teach, and write textbooks in ways that students can readily understand. Your website fixes this." —C.K.

"Thanks so much for taking the time and making the effort to help the mathematically challenged." —D.S.

"I am blind. I am particularly pleased with the way you use alt text on your graphs. Blind students should be able to follow your lessons nicely." —B.D.

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"I loved your rant on using graphing to solve quadratics." —F.S.

"I was struggling for hours tonight trying to understand slope intercept and your site helped me in 5 minutes!" —C.S.

"Math teachers forget that we are in their class because we don't already know how to do this stuff. Your website has helped me out of many bleak situations." —K.E.

My thanks go out to all of you who have contacted Purplemath over the years to share the news of your successes! —Elizabeth Stapel