For college students

Your freshman course is the material you've already met.

College Algebra is Algebra 2 under a new name. General Chemistry is the course AP Chem was built to match. LessonSlate already teaches all of it — so when the lecture moves too fast, you can watch someone reason through the exact problem, as many times as you need.

Same skills as College Algebra, Precalculus & General Chemistry I–II · free on YouTube · new lessons added regularly

The overlap is real

You're not starting over — you're reviewing

The intro college sequence covers the same skills you saw in high school, just faster and with less hand-holding. Here's how the courses line up.

You took
Algebra 2high school
You're taking
College Algebra& much of Precalculus
The same skills show up in both:
FunctionsQuadratics PolynomialsRational functions ExponentialsLogarithms Complex numbersSystems
You took
AP Chemistryor on-level chem
You're taking
General Chemistry I–IIfreshman gen chem
The same skills show up in both:
StoichiometryThermochemistry KineticsEquilibrium Acids & basesElectrochemistry Gas lawsSolutions

AP Chemistry is designed to be equivalent to a two-semester introductory college chemistry course — which is exactly why so many colleges grant gen-chem credit for it. The material isn't new to you; the pace is.

When it helps most

Made for the college moments

Not a full course to sit through — a lesson for the exact problem type that isn't clicking, right when you need it.

The lecture outran you

The professor worked it once at full speed and moved on. Re-watch a student hit the same wall and get unstuck — pause and replay as often as you like.

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Midterm in three days

Cram by problem type, not by re-reading the textbook. See the reasoning and the common wrong turns for the shapes that'll be on the exam.

Placement & readiness tests

Brushing up for a College Algebra placement or an ALEKS-style test? Refresh logarithms, functions, and rational expressions before you sit it.

Retaking a course

If gen chem or college algebra didn't go your way the first time, target the specific topics that tripped you — calmly, on your own schedule.

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Summer bridge before freshman year

Get ahead the summer before college. Walk into your first gen-chem or algebra lecture already familiar with how the problems are solved.

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Office hours are booked

When the TA line is long and it's late, a patient lesson that never gets impatient is the next best thing to a tutor.

What you can review

Subjects available now

Live today — with the intro college course each one maps to.

Chemistry
General Chemistry I–II

Stoichiometry, thermochemistry, kinetics, equilibrium, acids and bases, electrochemistry and more — spoken in real notation, with Sam and Dr. Chen.

StoichiometryEquilibriumAcid & baseElectrochemistry+ more
Algebra 2
College Algebra / Precalculus

Complex numbers, logarithms, exponentials, polynomials and rational functions — every ± and asymptote drawn out on the canvas, with Naomi and Ms. Rivera.

LogarithmsExponentialsRational functionsComplex numbers+ more
Algebra 1
Developmental / intermediate algebra

The foundation a lot of college math builds on — equations, systems, quadratics, functions and word problems, with Maya and Ms. Rivera.

Linear equationsQuadraticsSystems+ more
Geometry
Trig & geometry foundations

Angles, triangles, circles, area and volume, coordinate geometry and proofs — the groundwork for trigonometry, with Cody and Ms. Rivera.

AnglesTrianglesCirclesMeasurement+ more
Coming soon
Pre-calculus Statistics Biochemistry & more
Why watching helps

The messy middle is the part lectures skip

A lecture usually shows the clean solution once. But the useful part is watching where a real person hesitates, guesses wrong, and corrects — because that's where your own confusion lives too. Every LessonSlate lesson keeps that in.

  • Reason through a problem at your own pace, on repeat
  • See the common wrong turns before you make them on the exam
  • Colour-coded steps — given, unknown, result — legible even muted
  • Free on YouTube, no login, no paywall between you and a lesson
A lesson in miniature
Solving a log equation
log₂(x) + log₂(x−2) = 3
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Do I just add the insides to 3?
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Careful — a sum of logs becomes a product inside one log. What does that give you?
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log₂(x(x−2)) = 3 … so x(x−2) = 8, and x = 4.

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