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  4.    wt: 2:   Chapter 20 Vectors and Complex Numbers
  5.    wt: 2:   5 Interpreting and Drawing Maps and Plans.
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  11.    wt: 1:   3 Navigation with Arrows or Vectors
  12.    wt: 1:   Vector and Complex Number Applet
  13.    wt: 1:   17A The complex number valued trig function cis
  14.    wt: 1:   Unit Circle Development of Trigonometry
  15.    wt: 1:   Right Triangle and Unit Circle Trigonometry
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  20.    wt: 1:   2 Complex Numbers made easier we hope
  21.    wt: 1:   Appetizer A Complex Number Applet
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  26.    wt: 1:   PS H Distributive Law For Complex Numbers
  27.    wt: 1:   PS C Similarity Use Recognize it in Trigonometry
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  30.    wt: 1:   19 Signed Multiples of Vectors
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  8.    wt: 7:   3 Navigation with Arrows or Vectors
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  10.    wt: 7:   17A The complex number valued trig function cis
  11.    wt: 7:   Unit Circle Development of Trigonometry
  12.    wt: 7:   Right Triangle and Unit Circle Trigonometry
  13.    wt: 7:   20 N th Roots of Complex Numbers
  14.    wt: 7:   9 The complex number valued trig function cis
  15.    wt: 7:   8 Unit Circle Development of Trigonometry
  16.    wt: 7:   6 Field Properties of Complex Number
  17.    wt: 7:   2 Complex Numbers made easier we hope
  18.    wt: 7:   Appetizer A Complex Number Applet
  19.    wt: 7:   6 Trigonometry Sines of Supplementary Angles
  20.    wt: 7:   Why Trigonometry the whyslopes view
  21.    wt: 7:   Right Triangle and Unit Circle Trigonometry
  22.    wt: 7:   A Measurement with Ruler Proper Use
  23.    wt: 7:   5 Drawing to Scale Avoids Angle Distortions
  24.    wt: 7:   2 Measuring Area Directly
  25.    wt: 7:   1 Length Measurement
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  27.    wt: 6:   15 Dot and Cross Product
  28.    wt: 6:   14 Why Scalar Multiplication Distributes Physical Argument
  29.    wt: 6:   12 From Applied To Pure Mathematics
  30.    wt: 6:   11 Component Method
  31.    wt: 6:   10 Parallelogram Addition Method
  32.    wt: 6:   9 Head to Tail Coordinate View
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  39.    wt: 6:   35 sines and cosines of 2A 3A 4A 5A
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  42.    wt: 6:   32 seven rows of pascals triangle
  43.    wt: 6:   31 basic secant cosecant cotangent trig identities
  44.    wt: 6:   30 unit circle calculation of six trigonometric functions
  45.    wt: 6:   29 secant cosecant and cotangent for acute angles
  46.    wt: 6:   28 Expressing products of sines cosines as sums
  47.    wt: 6:   27 Logarithmic use of products of sines and cosines
  48.    wt: 6:   26 Formulas for products of sines and cosines
  49.    wt: 6:   25 tangent double angle formula Slope connection
  50.    wt: 6:   24 tangent Angle Difference Formula
  51.    wt: 6:   23 sine and cosine of 180 plus 22.5 degrees
  52.    wt: 6:   22 sine of 22.5 degrees via half angle formulas
  53.    wt: 6:   21 sine and cosine Half Angle Formulas
  54.    wt: 6:   20 sine and cosine Double Angle Formulas
  55.    wt: 6:   19 Pythagorean Identity For sine and cosine functions
  56.    wt: 6:   18 sum of sinusoidal waves as a single wave
  57.    wt: 6:   17G Pythagorean Theorem Converse
  58.    wt: 6:   17F Law of cosines
  59.    wt: 6:   17E Trig Formulas for dot and cross Products
  60.    wt: 6:   17D cis formulas for sine cosines and tangent
  61.    wt: 6:   17C sine and cosine double triple angle formulas
  62.    wt: 6:   17B sine cosine Angle Sum Formulas via cis
  63.    wt: 6:   16 Right Triangle Complementary Angle Relations
  64.    wt: 6:   15 sine cosine Complementary Angle Relations
  65.    wt: 6:   14 cosine even and sine and tangent are odd
  66.    wt: 6:   13 Graph of tangent function many periods
  67.    wt: 6:   12 Graph of tangent function for one period
  68.    wt: 6:   11 tangent function undefined when terminal side vertical
  69.    wt: 6:   10 Graphs of sines and cosines many periods
  70.    wt: 6:   9 Graphs of sine and cosine over one period
  71.    wt: 6:   8 period of tangent function
  72.    wt: 6:   7 period of sine and cosine
  73.    wt: 6:   6 sines and cosines for reference angle 30 degrees
  74.    wt: 6:   5 sines and cosines for reference angle 60 degrees
  75.    wt: 6:   4 sines and cosines for reference angle 45 degrees
  76.    wt: 6:   3 sines and cosines for reference angle 90 degrees
  77.    wt: 6:   2 Quadrant I reference Angles
  78.    wt: 6:   1 Unit Points Reflections Rotations
  79.    wt: 6:   21 Logarithms Powers and Exponentials
  80.    wt: 6:   19 N th Roots of Unity
  81.    wt: 6:   18 Sixth Roots of Unity
  82.    wt: 6:   17 Cube Roots of unity
  83.    wt: 6:   16 References and Originality Question
  84.    wt: 6:   15 Pythagorean Theorem Converse
  85.    wt: 6:   14 Law of cosines
  86.    wt: 6:   13 Trig Formulas for dot and cross Products
  87.    wt: 6:   12 cis formulas for sine cosines and tangent
  88.    wt: 6:   11 sine and cosine double triple angle formulas
  89.    wt: 6:   10 sine cosine Angle Sum Formulas via cis
  90.    wt: 6:   7 Second Way to Calculate Products
  91.    wt: 6:   5 An Easy Proof of the Distributive Law
  92.    wt: 6:   4 Multiplication Properties
  93.    wt: 6:   3 Addition Properties
  94.    wt: 6:   1 Rectangular Polar Coordinates Review
  95.    wt: 6:   8 Triangles Cascade Problem Solving
  96.    wt: 6:   7 Trignometric Ratios Unit Circle
  97.    wt: 6:   5 Trigonometric Ratios For Tangent and Special Triangles
  98.    wt: 6:   4 Trigonometric Ratios For Two Special Triangles
  99.    wt: 6:   3 Trigonometric Ratios sine and cosine
  100.    wt: 6:   2 Similar Triangles Equality of Corresponding Side Ratios
  101.    wt: 6:   1 Angle Measurement with Degrees
  102.    wt: 6:   7 Complex Numbers Appetizer
  103.    wt: 6:   PS H Distributive Law For Complex Numbers
  104.    wt: 6:   PS C Similarity Use Recognize it in Trigonometry
  105.    wt: 5:   16 cotangent function Definition Graph and Inverse
  106.    wt: 5:   15 cosecant function Definition Graph and Inverse
  107.    wt: 5:   14 secant function Definition Graph and Inverse
  108.    wt: 5:   13 cosecant function Definition Graph and Inverse
  109.    wt: 5:   12 motivation for term arctan
  110.    wt: 5:   11 arctan left inverse of tangent Graph
  111.    wt: 5:   10 arctan left inverse of tangent Definition
  112.    wt: 5:   9 motivation for name arcsin
  113.    wt: 5:   8 arcsin left inverse of sine Graph
  114.    wt: 5:   7 arcsin left inverse of sine Definition
  115.    wt: 5:   6 Graph of arccos function
  116.    wt: 5:   5 Swapping Coordinates is a reflection
  117.    wt: 5:   4 possible motivation for term arccos
  118.    wt: 5:   3 Left Inverse of cosine arccos definition
  119.    wt: 5:   2 cosine function more properties
  120.    wt: 5:   1 cosine function properties
  121.    wt: 5:   9 Summary Degrees to Radians and back
  122.    wt: 5:   8 Radian Measures of Common Angles
  123.    wt: 5:   7 Radian Measures in special Triangles
  124.    wt: 5:   6 Radian Measure to Degrees
  125.    wt: 5:   5 Degrees to Radian Measure
  126.    wt: 5:   4 Circle Sector Area proportional to Central Angle
  127.    wt: 5:   3 Circle Arclengh Proportional to Central Angle
  128.    wt: 5:   2 Radian Measure Numerical Value of one degree
  129.    wt: 5:   1 Degrees and Radians Introduction
  130.    wt: 5:   4 graphing y=Asin(x c)
  131.    wt: 5:   3 graphing y=f(x c) plus K
  132.    wt: 5:   2 Graphing y=Af(x) Vertical Scaling
  133.    wt: 5:   1 graphing y=f(x a)
  134.    wt: 5:   Parallel Lines and Parallel Transversals
  135.    wt: 5:   Proportionality of Line Segments From Parallel Transversals
  136.    wt: 5:   Triangle Angles Sum To 180 Degrees
  137.    wt: 5:   Parallel Lines and Alternating Corresponding Angles
  138.    wt: 5:   Parallel Lines and Interior Angles
  139.    wt: 5:   Construction Methods and Criteria for Isometric and Similar Triangles
  140.    wt: 5:   SAS Method For Isometric Or Proportional Triangle Construction
  141.    wt: 5:   Analytic View of Triangle Construction or Line Instersection More
  142.    wt: 5:   Straight Lines ASA Intersection Study More
  143.    wt: 5:   Straight Lines ASA Intersection Study
  144.    wt: 5:   Straight Lines Instersection Solving Equations
  145.    wt: 5:   Straight Lines Intersection of
  146.    wt: 5:   D Straight Lines Slope from Coordinates Examples
  147.    wt: 5:   C Straight Lines Slope from Coordinates
  148.    wt: 5:   B Straight Line Slope Scaling Properties More
  149.    wt: 5:   A Straight Line Slope Scaling Properties
  150.    wt: 5:   14 Straight Lines Equations General Case
  151.    wt: 5:   13 Straight Lines Finding Equations from 2 points
  152.    wt: 5:   12 Straight Lines Graphing mx plus b
  153.    wt: 5:   11 Straight Lines Graphing y=mx
  154.    wt: 5:   10 Straight Lines through Origin Equations More
  155.    wt: 5:   9 Straight Lines through Origin Equations
  156.    wt: 5:   8 Straight Lines Equation for vertical
  157.    wt: 5:   7 Tangent Function is odd on this domain
  158.    wt: 5:   6 Tangent Function Inclination Angle Take 2
  159.    wt: 5:   5 Tangent Function Graph
  160.    wt: 5:   4 Tangent Function Properties
  161.    wt: 5:   3 Straight Lines Slope as Tangent of Inclination Angle
  162.    wt: 5:   2 Straight Lines Slopes As Rise Over Run
  163.    wt: 5:   1 Straight Lines Slope Concept
  164.    wt: 5:   13 Navigation Location from Angles to 2 Landmarks
  165.    wt: 5:   12 Triangles Similarity More Problems
  166.    wt: 5:   11 Triangle Similarity Missing Side Problem
  167.    wt: 5:   10 Similarity of Triangles Equivalent of Two Criteria
  168.    wt: 5:   9 Similarity of Triangles Usual Criteria
  169.    wt: 5:   8 Similarity of Triangles and Polygons
  170.    wt: 5:   7 Translations Rotations Reflections Dilatations
  171.    wt: 5:   6 Geometric Diagrams in Class
  172.    wt: 5:   5 Similarity of Circles Squares and Rectangles
  173.    wt: 5:   4 Similarity Definition with Coordinate
  174.    wt: 5:   3 Similarity by Design with coordinates
  175.    wt: 5:   2 Similarity By Design
  176.    wt: 5:   1 Early Concept of Like or Similar Shapes
  177.    wt: 5:   Four Simple Exercises
  178.    wt: 5:   12 Links Lessons elsewhere
  179.    wt: 5:   11 A Partial Summary
  180.    wt: 5:   10 Midpoint of [a b] and [b a]
  181.    wt: 5:   9 Midpoint Coordinates Half Endpoint Sum
  182.    wt: 5:   8 Mid Point Formula
  183.    wt: 5:   7 Exercises to test skill and concept mastery
  184.    wt: 5:   6 Intersection of lines by solving linear systems
  185.    wt: 5:   5 Algebraic View of Slopes
  186.    wt: 5:   4 Equations for lines three forms
  187.    wt: 5:   3 Slope product for perpendicular lines
  188.    wt: 5:   2 point slope equation for a line
  189.    wt: 5:   1 Numerical view of lines and their equations
  190.    wt: 5:   What is and is not here
  191.    wt: 5:   13 Pythagorean spatial distance formulas
  192.    wt: 5:   12 Spatial Coordinates
  193.    wt: 5:   11 Triangle Inequality
  194.    wt: 5:   10 Pythagorean plane distance formula
  195.    wt: 5:   9 Pythagorean Theorem Chinese Square Proof
  196.    wt: 5:   8 Distance Between Points on a Line
  197.    wt: 5:   6 Polar Multiplication and Rotation
  198.    wt: 5:   5 Cartesian Addition and Translation
  199.    wt: 5:   4 Polar Coordinates to and from
  200.    wt: 5:   3 Rectangular Coordinates Review
  201.    wt: 5:   2 Cartesian Coordinates with signs
  202.    wt: 5:   1 Cartesian Coordinates sans signs
  203.    wt: 5:   Euclidean Geometry Elsewhere LINKS
  204.    wt: 5:   PS G Rotation Distributes over Addition
  205.    wt: 5:   PS F Scalar Multiplication Distributes over Addition
  206.    wt: 5:   PS E Multiplication with Polar Coordinates
  207.    wt: 5:   PS D Addition with Cartesian Coordinates
  208.    wt: 5:   PS B Parallelogram Construction Methods
  209.    wt: 5:   PS A Kite Construction Methods
  210.    wt: 5:   21 Parallelograms
  211.    wt: 5:   19 Right Triangle Similarity
  212.    wt: 5:   18 Triangle Similarity Take 1
  213.    wt: 5:   17 Right Bisectors of Triangle Sides
  214.    wt: 5:   16 Angles Subtended By Chords and Diameters
  215.    wt: 5:   15 Triangle Angle Sum is 180 degrees
  216.    wt: 5:   14 Parallel Lines Postulate
  217.    wt: 5:   13 Angle Side Angle Failure
  218.    wt: 5:   12 Side Angle Side Failure
  219.    wt: 5:   11 Triangle Construction Fails
  220.    wt: 5:   10 Dropping a perpendicular to line
  221.    wt: 5:   9 Construction of a right bisector
  222.    wt: 5:   8 Isoceles Triangles
  223.    wt: 5:   7 Angle Side Angle
  224.    wt: 5:   6 Ruler and compass Angle Bisection
  225.    wt: 5:   5 Side Angle Side
  226.    wt: 5:   4 Side Side Side
  227.    wt: 5:   3 Isometry of Triangles Congruence
  228.    wt: 5:   2 Correspondence between Triangles
  229.    wt: 5:   1 Initial Concepts and Terms
  230.    wt: 5:   Short Course on Euclidean Geometry
  231.    wt: 5:   About Folder Contents
  232.    wt: 2:   Maps Plans Drawings
  233.    wt: 2:   Chapter 20 Vectors and Complex Numbers
  234.    wt: 2:   5 Interpreting and Drawing Maps and Plans.
  235.    wt: 2:   Euclidean and Analytic Geometry with Complex Numbers and Trigonometry
  236.    wt: 1:   About site lesson plans
  237.    wt: 1:   19 Signed Multiples of Vectors
  238.    wt: 1:   16 Collinear Horizontal Arrows Vectors
  239.    wt: 1:   13 Arrows and Vectors in a Plane
  240.    wt: 1:   8 Coordinates for Maps and Planes
  241.    wt: 1:   3 signed coordinates for maps and planes
  242.    wt: 1:   22 Complex Compound Fractions
  243.    wt: 1:   Chapter 23 Links To Trigonometry
  244.    wt: 1:   Chapter 22 Complex Numbers
  245.    wt: 1:   Chapter 4 Complex Numbers and Why Slopes
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The Logic of Injustice: How Texas sent an innocent man to his death - The wrong Carlos. Some judgments are irreversible. Procescution: Where and when prosectors play to win rather than for justice, guilt beyond a reasonable doubt goes unrespected due to prosecutors who putting winning first, those innocence before the law may be convicted. Some procescutors offices in continuing to accuse after a pardon due to reasonable doubt or innocent being shown, may sucessfully oppose compensaton for false convictions by asserting a pardon individual is still under suspicion. Then the pardoned individual or the latter's estate is not compensation for years or decade of improper or false imprisonment, or for execution. Site chapters on Logic
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Written work formats for Arithmetic and Algebra - a skill method and standard!
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Parent-friendly Work Booklets for ages 3+ to 13 Use these or others to check or build skills. Other booklets are available but these booklets allow parents unsure of themselves in mathematics to help their children. The selection acquired in Canada is published in the USA. So it has a US orientation. In retrospect, the selection shows parents what to check with the booklets or by other ways, the choice is theirs. But in retrospect, the selection does not cover integral and fractions liquid weights and measures - ask the publishers to correct that! For ages 9 to 12 say, parents may compensate by showing boys and girls how to use weights or mass, and further measures in food preparation. Beyond that children may be shown how to measure and calculate angles, lengths and areas [proportional amounts too] directly or by using maps and plans drawns to scale. Learning how to gather and measure all the ingredients, pots and pans for a dish or a meal, along with cleaning up sets the stage for like activities or experiments in science courses, and in developing organizational skills, gives boys and girls a head start. Good luck. At the other extreme, more comprehensive than light, if your motto is McCainian: drill, drill, drill then Toronto mathematician and actor John Mighton's jump math organization has jump math workbooks for at least grades 3 to 8 for at-home and in-school use - training sessions for teachers available. Jump math has been expanding to cover older students. Jump Math Samples: plus Fractions for Grades 3-4 & Grades 5-6 [Read] Free Resources grades 1 to 8 [unread - likely to be good]. and

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Algebra Starter Lessons

1 Working With Sets
2 Formula Forward Use - Evaluation
3 Solving Linear Equations - Skip first step with students able to solve 1 eqn in 1 unknown.
4 Computation Rules and Function Notation
5 Real Numbers
6 More Less Greater Than Inequalities and Comparison
7 Axioms Logic and Equivalent Equations
8 Unifying Theme For Algebra
9 Proportionality Backwards and Forwards
10 Examples of Algebraic Reasoning
A Origins of Counting and Figuring Methods
B Real Numbers Extrinsic Development


Site coverage of formuala evaluation format, of computation rules and axioms, and of the forward and backward use of formulas and proportionality relations lessens the amount of natural talent needed to understand and explain algebra.

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1 Maps Plans Measurement
2 Euclidean Geometry - Constructions + extras
3 Cartesian and Polar Coordinates
4 Lines and Slopes Take 1
5 What is Similarity
6 Trigonometry first steps
7 Complex Numbers
8 Unit-Circle Trigonometry
9 Lines and Slopes Take 2 with tangent function
10 Intersecting Straight Lines and Transversals
11 Parallel Straight Lines and Transversals
12 Function Translating and Rescaling
13 Vectors
14 Degrees to Radians and Radians to Degrees
15 Arc or Inverse Trigonometric Function

Pre-Teen and young teen mastery of skills and practices which should be common with map-plans-diagrams drawn to scale, contour interpretation included, has actual or potential take-home value for daily- and adult-life in solving routine problems. Elevating some practices to principles, axioms or postualates, provides a base for analytic and Euclidean geometry, an analytic view of similarity, and an efficient mastery of trigonometry and complex numbers. Right triangle trigonometry provide an analytic alternative to solving geometric problems by drawing diagrams to scale.

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Natural-Logarithms Exponentials Powers Roots
Five Polynomial Operations
Quadratics Geometrically
Functions
5 Factored Polynomial Sign Analysis Examples
Rewriting algebraic substitution as function substitutions

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3. Prime Factors - quickly
4. Fractions + Ratios
5. Arith with units - science

Geometry
1 Maps + Plans Use
2 Euclidean Geometry
3 Rct +Polr Coordinates
4 Lines-Slopes [I]
5. What is Similarity 		Algebra Starters - the base
1. Better Work Format
2. Solve Linear Eqns
3. Computation Rules
4. Axioms, Item 3 Viewpnt
5. Formulas Backwards 		More Algebra
Logarithms-ax & m/nth roots
Five Polynomial Operations
Quadratics Geometrically
Functions || Vectors too
Arith. Skill Check+Answers 		Calculus Prep/Preview
What is a Variable
Why study slopes
Why factor polynomials
Complex Numbers
Limits + Continuity

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