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2. Three Skills for Algebra  1995
3.
_Why_Slopes_&_More_Math_1995

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5.  Analytic Geometry/Functions 2006
6.  Number Theory. 2006-7
7.  Complex Numbers More 2001
8.  Calculus Introduction 2005
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15-Prequel-to-the-How-TOs-06-2008
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1. Arithmetic Reference
2. Algebra 
3. More Algebra 
4. Geometry  
5. More Geometry
6. Calculus
7. Logics in Maths

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 For better work & study skills, read logic chapters 1 to 5  in  Three Skills for Algebra. Sooner is better. Good luck.

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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.

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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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Appendix A
Pathways for Better Learning

A  About the Next appendices B to E

The next appendices and two PS postscripts offer advice and directions (suggestions) for better learning.

 They suggest why and how to study every subject including mathematics. These appendices form a study guide for senior high school and beginning college students. The advice and goals offered in these appendices apply to some but not all circumstances. You and your neighbor may like different parts of this advice or none - there is no pleasing everyone. Some of the advice or suggestive is repetitive. The site author does not know when to stop writing.

Next Appendix: B How to Learn

Eight Study Tips

  1. Identify what you do not understand among the skills and concepts you need to know to give yourself a plan for further studies by yourself or with help.

  2. A subject is only understood when you know how to explain it to another.

  3. If you cannot read precisely, how will you understand and how will you catch errors in writings, yours and others? If you cannot write precisely, who will you understand? Arithmetic and logic both require exactness in following steps or patterns, one at a time and one after another. Precision in your daily life may follow if you master Arithmetic and Logic. When you use arithmetic or logic do you get the same results as others. If not, someone has made a mistake.

  4. In mathematics, notes and work for doing problems must be written on paper and must be written precisely. To completely master a mathematical concept, one must be able to write calculations precisely and exactly on paper. Errors of notation create misinterpretations which when read later on lead to more misunderstanding or errors in further reasoning.  Ideas incorrectly understood or described will be a source of error later at the time of reading or further reasoning. 

  5. You can be better than you think in most arts and disciplined  if you to learn that   an error in one step of a method lessens or destroys the value of whatever follows.

  6. When you plan for the future career or studies in any subject, see what mathematics courses are required. Then take them in advance if possible.

  7. Use of the electronic calculator for decimal computations does not provide the exact answers that are needed for derivations of formulas in algebra and beyond. For true understanding of concepts beyond arithmetic, you need to understand and efficiently do arithmetic operations with fractions 

  8.  Learning takes time and effort, yours. In my classes if not yours, students answering homework  may look at the work of others to to see how to solve a problem but must write their solutions without copying.  Students who have to copy will suffer on quizzes, tests and examinations. 

 

 

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Foreword, Chapters 
& Appendices 

Foreword
1. Introduction
2. Implication Rules
3. Chains of Reason
4. Romeo and Juliet
4. Induction Mathematical
5 Knowledge Islands
6  Old Language
7  Arith Skill Check
7. The Next Chapters
8 The Three Skills
8 VNR-Concise-Encyclopedia
PS. What is a Variable
9. Algebra Talk
10 Two More Skills
11 Why Shorthand
12 Shorthand Usage
13 What's Next
14 Compound Interest
15 Linear Equations
PS I.  Distributive Law
PS II. Polynomials
16 Painless Proofs
17 Pythagoras
18 Rules of Algebra
19  Functions & Sets
20 Degrees & Radians
21 What's Next
22. Arith & Geometric Sums
23 Summation Notation
24 Your Money
25 Induction & Recursion
26 What's Next
27 Pronouns in Logic
28 Occurrence Tables
29 Contrapositive
30 Truth Tables
31 Indirect Reason
A. Advice For Learning

Real Player Videos

Perfect arithmetic skills with whole numbers & fractions
after or besides chapters 1 to 14.

Arithmetic Videos Summary
Addition with Decimals
Subtraction with Decimals
Multiplication with Decimals
Fraction Arithmetic
Recognizing Primes
Long Division for Decimals
Square Root Simplification
Greatest Common Divisors
Least Common Multiples

Words Before Symbols: 
What is a Variable?
Introduction
Variation between Examples

Variation of Letters

A letter denotes a variable

Cases of Double Variation

Three Notions of a Variable

Constants, Parameters
& Variables

Talking about numbers
Dependent or Independent
Variable, a Matter of Choice

Complex number: starter lesson  

Solving Linear Equations:

A. Letters and Lengths

B. & C. Solving Linear Eq'ns
with stick diagrams.

(i) x + 20 = 29
(ii) 2x + 5 = 20
(iii) 3x + 10 = 32
(iv) 5a + 16 = 3a+ 24

(v)  (½)x + 8 = 24½
(vI)  (¾)a + 16 = (¼)a+ 24
(vii) (¾)q + 17 = 32
(viii) 13 =[2/3]x +7 twice
(x) Animated Examples
(i) Integral Coefficients (A)
(ii) Integral Coefficients (B)
(iii) Fractional Coefficients

(iv) With Parameters

Problem Solving with Linear
Equations in one or many
unknowns, and in essentially 
one unknown - Symbols before
words. 


C. Solving Linear Eq'ns 
without
Stick Diagrams

D. Problems in 
essentially one unknown

E: 2D Systems - Sub Methods.
F. Larger Systems

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