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-/[]\- Logic chapters 1 to 5 re- appear not in sequence, as is or longer, in Volume 1A, Pattern Based Reason, Bon Appetite. Logic
Mastery Logic mastery makes the hard, easier. Logic mastery leads to better, stronger and richer comprehension. Logic mastery improves reading and writing. Logic mastery ease learning difficulties. Logic mastery gives a headstart. In sum, 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 liinear Equations ; or (b) see this calculus starter lesson and Volume 3, Why Slopes & More Math, chapters 2 to 6;
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Mathematics and English teachers should mark what is written, not was meant, so their students learn to write precisely. Precision is important. A person who does not write exactly what he or she means does not know how to read precisely what is written in their notes and textbooks, and so is easily confused. Moreover, in mathematics, confusion about notation, what is proper or not, leads to errors in all calculations and in problem solving. Ouch!
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The first equation or equality holds (meaning is true) since both 4+5 and 7+2 are expressions giving the value 9.
The second equation r2 = r·r always holds, no matter what value you give to r. It tells us how to compute the number or quantity described by the expression r2.
The third equation 3x+1 = x+7 holds (is true) when and only when x = 2. When x has a value other than 2, the statement (suggestion or assertion) that 3x+1 gives the same result as x+7 is false.
The fourth statement x+4 = x+6 is always false. No value given to (or substituted for) x will make this statement true. Adding 4 and adding 6 to the same number give different results, no matter what the number is.
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2. Three Skills for AlgebraForeword, 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 lessonSolving 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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