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Mastery Do not leave here without it - Logic mastery will develops critical thinking, improve reading and writing, and give a firmer base for work and studies at many levels. Good luck. After logic, (a) continue reading Three Skills for Algebra, chapters 8 to 14 and do so alongside site area on solving linear2007 Equations ; or (b) see this calculus starter lesson and Volume 3, Why Slopes & More Math, chapters 2 to 6;
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-/[]\- What may be learnt and when depends on how skills and concepts are developed. Making the hard easier and clearer will allow earlier & richer development of skills and concepts. George Orwell: Is it nonsense for arts and disciplines based on and respected for carefully mastery of rules and methods, alone and combined, to face education reforms based on the supposition that mastery of rules and methods is not a sign of intelligence. Would you like to rewrite 1984 to include that angle? Try the Twiddla Whiteboard. In principle, it allows to people to draw and chat together online on a copy of this webpage or a clean sheet. The chat may be via text or audio. Visit twiddla.com to set up whiteboards to work with the webpage of your choice. Precalculus sites mathsisfun & purplemath are visually more appealling than this one. Do not go. For online automated help in senior high school maths & calculus, visit quickmath.com For Automatic Calculus and Algebra Help with derivatives, integrals, graphs, linear equations, matrix algebra, visit calc101.com With overlap, each site quickmath & calc101offers a different range of services, some free, some not, all based on webmathematica. Good luck.
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Quantitative Skills - Ideas for a New Site AreaThis site area to grow will cover or point to numerical skills and concepts appearing in all walks of life at work, at home and in-between. The aim is to include common calculations of potential interest on a daily or long-term basis. For example, one of the books I am reading or have read on learning French gives many examples of visiting a places, a store or restaurant, a train station, etc, and introducing the words needed or likely to met in such a place or situation. This site area will offer examples (vignettes) where we describe the calculation likely to occur in each place or activity. Any place, trade or activity in which elementary mathematics appears provides material for a webpage in this (future) area. These examples may be useful for instruction and self-instruction. Money Matters The site pages provide an elementary to advance view of money related calculations.
The further pages review arithmetic and try to teach some algebra and logic
Logic Lessons 2 to 5 could and should lead to precision reading and writing, two musts for studies and work!
Site Content GuideChapter 14 on the Compound Interest Formula shows there is more to mathematics than doing arithmetic. Formulas can be used directly and indirectly. This chapter shows how. In this discussion of the compound interest formula, I just want to show you how to use it and how to manipulate or change it to extract other formulas from it. Examples with and without numbers will be given. Explanations of why the compound interest works may be found elsewhere. When times permits, the explanation why will be posted here.The next group of chapters describe ideas and mathematical methods which can be used in money computations. The methods should be used carefully. Errors here could be costly. Opinion: Everyone regardless of academic or work destination, should meet and master such calculations because they might be useful in daily life.The first two chapters Geometric Sums Etc and Notation for Sums and describe the mathematical ideas and methods needed in to explain the calculations involving compound interest, loans and pensions in the chapter Personal Money Matters. Note this chapter provides only one motivation for mastering the mathematical ideas and methods employed or shown. The chapter Some Finite Mathematics shows how the principle of mathematical induction can be used to justify or confirm again the summation shortcut formulas given earlier. (Mathematicians favor math induction in place of more relaxed methods of justification.) The ideas and methods in this chapter Some Finite Mathematics are re-cycled or re-used in many further parts of mathematical thought.
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