Online Math Tutor, two weeks for free!

[xian...@gmail.com]

Just got an email says that my kids can use ALEKS for free (two weeks)
anybody know about this? Email come from onlin...@gmail.com. I
wonder if this is real. Thanks.

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[Kevin Karplus]

On 2005-07-27, xian...@gmail.com <xian...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Just got an email says that my kids can use ALEKS for free (two weeks)
> anybody know about this? Email come from onlin...@gmail.com. I
> wonder if this is real. Thanks.

ALEKS is real, but it is more of an adaptive math drill program than a
math tutor. The free week or two is also real---after that it costs a
moderate amount.

aleks.com has been reviewed (favorably) in this newsgroup before.
My own family has not used it---my son got irritated with the site
during the first day and refused to have anything more to do with it.

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