No news is bad news
Last two lessons and the next lesson I could not find material in Khan for us. Thereafter wa are done with the MAB1 course. The material we were missing:

• direct and inverse proportionality
• making equations out of word problems (english was too difficult in Khan)
• incomplete quadratic equations 

All-in-all we: were able to cover about 75% of the course with the Khan acadamy.

day 9: Back to basics

This time we do first some more advanced exercises related to chapter 4 in our Finnish text book. But then we get back to very basics with Khan. This is because the students have clear lapses in their basic knowledge.

I think Khan is at its best when drilling the very basics. Then there is no language barrier.

day 8: Monitoring
Monitoring progress of the students is in principle easy: you get a graphical report (see below). One gets a list of the names of the students who are struggling: this is the most important thing and lets the teacher guide students who are not able to ask for help.

day 7: Situation seems to be good (finally)

The www-page with links to Khan academy
http://www.iki.fi/markus.kaukonen/MAB1/mab1.html
seems to have solved most of the hassle.

Today I had time to tutor almost all students individually. Also the last students who had chosen not to use Khan-Academy tried it out today (I was forcing them to try it). Lets see what they choose the next lesson, are they still preferring the traditional text book?

day 6: Trying to solve some problems:

1. How to link the finnish text book/ curriculum to Khan akademy? 
2. How to set a study path for the students (this is not allowed in Khan academy's native system).
3. How students could avoid surfing around Khan-academy's hopelessly slow www-pages (because the mobile version does not work and they do not answer my complaints...)
   
   Solution: a link page to make the connection Finland-Khan:
   http://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/mokaukon/public_html/MAB1/mab1.html
   (unfortunately only in Finnish, but you can give google compiler a go)

day 5: Students had some more important than maths: lesson canceled.

Some Background

Some Background:

• Khan Academy (KA): watch the video (12min)  http://www.khanacademy.org/toolkit/ This may become a serious challenge to traditional teaching at least at the university level (because, at least in Finland, teaching is at its worst over there)
• pupils: according to my  'enter poll' nobody likes math and everybody is poor in it. Group size 12. This is a compulsary course and the easier option.
• teacher: did teacher training last winter, but practiced in physics and chemistry -> not too experienced ... but formally qualified in teaching maths.
• school: small school with small classes -> experimental teaching may be possible.