For some of us, algebra hails from a bizarre, incomprehensible place where letters become numbers and little seems logical. Lewis Carroll, author of that most surreal of tales, Alice in Wonderland, was a mathematician. Put the two together and you've got an online tutorial that employs the metaphor of Alice (which in this site's parlance is an acronym for Active Learner's Internet-based Creative Educator) to teach visitors basic algebra. Do you learn faster when you're hearing the lesson? If so, you can opt to follow along to the stilted RealAudio conversations between Alice and the mysterious Mr. X. We'd like to see quizzes and a little more interactivity, but if Junior absolutely refuses to study his math, this might get him started.

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