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  3.    wt: 2:   4 Angles on Maps Plans drawn to scale
  4.    wt: 2:   3 Lengths and Areas on Maps and Plans
  5.    wt: 2:   5 Interpreting and Drawing Maps and Plans.
  6.    wt: 1:   About site lesson plans
  7.    wt: 1:   13 Velocity Vectors in Physics
  8.    wt: 1:   8 Parallel Vectors
  9.    wt: 1:   6 Vectors with Coordinates
  10.    wt: 1:   3 Navigation with Arrows or Vectors
  11.    wt: 1:   Parallel Lines and Parallel Transversals
  12.    wt: 1:   Parallel Lines and Alternating Corresponding Angles
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  14.    wt: 1:   Straight Lines ASA Intersection Study More
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  16.    wt: 1:   Straight Lines Instersection Solving Equations
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  18.    wt: 1:   D Straight Lines Slope from Coordinates Examples
  19.    wt: 1:   C Straight Lines Slope from Coordinates
  20.    wt: 1:   14 Straight Lines Equations General Case
  21.    wt: 1:   13 Straight Lines Finding Equations from 2 points
  22.    wt: 1:   12 Straight Lines Graphing mx plus b
  23.    wt: 1:   11 Straight Lines Graphing y=mx
  24.    wt: 1:   10 Straight Lines through Origin Equations More
  25.    wt: 1:   9 Straight Lines through Origin Equations
  26.    wt: 1:   8 Straight Lines Equation for vertical
  27.    wt: 1:   3 Straight Lines Slope as Tangent of Inclination Angle
  28.    wt: 1:   2 Straight Lines Slopes As Rise Over Run
  29.    wt: 1:   1 Straight Lines Slope Concept
  30.    wt: 1:   Unit Circle Development of Trigonometry
  31.    wt: 1:   Right Triangle and Unit Circle Trigonometry
  32.    wt: 1:   8 Unit Circle Development of Trigonometry
  33.    wt: 1:   6 Trigonometry Sines of Supplementary Angles
  34.    wt: 1:   Why Trigonometry the whyslopes view
  35.    wt: 1:   Right Triangle and Unit Circle Trigonometry
  36.    wt: 1:   6 Intersection of lines by solving linear systems
  37.    wt: 1:   4 Equations for lines three forms
  38.    wt: 1:   1 Numerical view of lines and their equations
  39.    wt: 1:   PS C Similarity Use Recognize it in Trigonometry
  40.    wt: 1:   14 Parallel Lines Postulate
  41.    wt: 1:   10 Dropping a perpendicular to line
  42.    wt: 1:   8 More Use of Maps Not Drawn to Scale
  43.    wt: 1:   6 Figuring with Maps Not to Scale
  44.    wt: 1:   19 Signed Multiples of Vectors
  45.    wt: 1:   16 Collinear Horizontal Arrows Vectors
  46.    wt: 1:   13 Arrows and Vectors in a Plane
  47.    wt: 1:   8 Coordinates for Maps and Planes
  48.    wt: 1:   3 signed coordinates for maps and planes
  49.    wt: 1:   Chapter 23 Links To Trigonometry
  50.    wt: 1:   Chapter 20 Vectors and Complex Numbers
  51.    wt: 1:   Euclidean and Analytic Geometry with Complex Numbers and Trigonometry

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  1.    wt: 9:   4 Angles on Maps Plans drawn to scale
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  3.    wt: 8:   3 Slope product for perpendicular lines
  4.    wt: 8:   8 More Use of Maps Not Drawn to Scale
  5.    wt: 8:   6 Figuring with Maps Not to Scale
  6.    wt: 7:   13 Velocity Vectors in Physics
  7.    wt: 7:   8 Parallel Vectors
  8.    wt: 7:   6 Vectors with Coordinates
  9.    wt: 7:   3 Navigation with Arrows or Vectors
  10.    wt: 7:   Parallel Lines and Parallel Transversals
  11.    wt: 7:   Parallel Lines and Alternating Corresponding Angles
  12.    wt: 7:   Parallel Lines and Interior Angles
  13.    wt: 7:   Straight Lines ASA Intersection Study More
  14.    wt: 7:   Straight Lines ASA Intersection Study
  15.    wt: 7:   Straight Lines Instersection Solving Equations
  16.    wt: 7:   Straight Lines Intersection of
  17.    wt: 7:   D Straight Lines Slope from Coordinates Examples
  18.    wt: 7:   C Straight Lines Slope from Coordinates
  19.    wt: 7:   14 Straight Lines Equations General Case
  20.    wt: 7:   13 Straight Lines Finding Equations from 2 points
  21.    wt: 7:   12 Straight Lines Graphing mx plus b
  22.    wt: 7:   11 Straight Lines Graphing y=mx
  23.    wt: 7:   10 Straight Lines through Origin Equations More
  24.    wt: 7:   9 Straight Lines through Origin Equations
  25.    wt: 7:   8 Straight Lines Equation for vertical
  26.    wt: 7:   3 Straight Lines Slope as Tangent of Inclination Angle
  27.    wt: 7:   2 Straight Lines Slopes As Rise Over Run
  28.    wt: 7:   1 Straight Lines Slope Concept
  29.    wt: 7:   Unit Circle Development of Trigonometry
  30.    wt: 7:   Right Triangle and Unit Circle Trigonometry
  31.    wt: 7:   6 Trigonometry Sines of Supplementary Angles
  32.    wt: 7:   Why Trigonometry the whyslopes view
  33.    wt: 7:   Right Triangle and Unit Circle Trigonometry
  34.    wt: 7:   6 Intersection of lines by solving linear systems
  35.    wt: 7:   4 Equations for lines three forms
  36.    wt: 7:   1 Numerical view of lines and their equations
  37.    wt: 7:   A Measurement with Ruler Proper Use
  38.    wt: 7:   5 Drawing to Scale Avoids Angle Distortions
  39.    wt: 7:   2 Measuring Area Directly
  40.    wt: 7:   1 Length Measurement
  41.    wt: 6:   A Global Time and Navigation
  42.    wt: 6:   15 Dot and Cross Product
  43.    wt: 6:   14 Why Scalar Multiplication Distributes Physical Argument
  44.    wt: 6:   12 From Applied To Pure Mathematics
  45.    wt: 6:   11 Component Method
  46.    wt: 6:   10 Parallelogram Addition Method
  47.    wt: 6:   9 Head to Tail Coordinate View
  48.    wt: 6:   7 Coordinate Addition and Scalar Multiplication
  49.    wt: 6:   5 Head To Tail Arrow Addition
  50.    wt: 6:   4 Resultant of a Sum of Movements
  51.    wt: 6:   2 Signed Coordinates
  52.    wt: 6:   1 Unsigned Coordinates
  53.    wt: 6:   Vector and Complex Number Applet
  54.    wt: 6:   Proportionality of Line Segments From Parallel Transversals
  55.    wt: 6:   Triangle Angles Sum To 180 Degrees
  56.    wt: 6:   Construction Methods and Criteria for Isometric and Similar Triangles
  57.    wt: 6:   SAS Method For Isometric Or Proportional Triangle Construction
  58.    wt: 6:   Analytic View of Triangle Construction or Line Instersection More
  59.    wt: 6:   B Straight Line Slope Scaling Properties More
  60.    wt: 6:   A Straight Line Slope Scaling Properties
  61.    wt: 6:   7 Tangent Function is odd on this domain
  62.    wt: 6:   6 Tangent Function Inclination Angle Take 2
  63.    wt: 6:   5 Tangent Function Graph
  64.    wt: 6:   4 Tangent Function Properties
  65.    wt: 6:   17 tangent function angle sum formulas
  66.    wt: 6:   35 sines and cosines of 2A 3A 4A 5A
  67.    wt: 6:   34 sines and cosines of 2A 3A 4A 5A
  68.    wt: 6:   33 sines and cosines of 2A 3A 4A 5A
  69.    wt: 6:   32 seven rows of pascals triangle
  70.    wt: 6:   31 basic secant cosecant cotangent trig identities
  71.    wt: 6:   30 unit circle calculation of six trigonometric functions
  72.    wt: 6:   29 secant cosecant and cotangent for acute angles
  73.    wt: 6:   28 Expressing products of sines cosines as sums
  74.    wt: 6:   27 Logarithmic use of products of sines and cosines
  75.    wt: 6:   26 Formulas for products of sines and cosines
  76.    wt: 6:   25 tangent double angle formula Slope connection
  77.    wt: 6:   24 tangent Angle Difference Formula
  78.    wt: 6:   23 sine and cosine of 180 plus 22.5 degrees
  79.    wt: 6:   22 sine of 22.5 degrees via half angle formulas
  80.    wt: 6:   21 sine and cosine Half Angle Formulas
  81.    wt: 6:   20 sine and cosine Double Angle Formulas
  82.    wt: 6:   19 Pythagorean Identity For sine and cosine functions
  83.    wt: 6:   18 sum of sinusoidal waves as a single wave
  84.    wt: 6:   17G Pythagorean Theorem Converse
  85.    wt: 6:   17F Law of cosines
  86.    wt: 6:   17E Trig Formulas for dot and cross Products
  87.    wt: 6:   17D cis formulas for sine cosines and tangent
  88.    wt: 6:   17C sine and cosine double triple angle formulas
  89.    wt: 6:   17B sine cosine Angle Sum Formulas via cis
  90.    wt: 6:   17A The complex number valued trig function cis
  91.    wt: 6:   16 Right Triangle Complementary Angle Relations
  92.    wt: 6:   15 sine cosine Complementary Angle Relations
  93.    wt: 6:   14 cosine even and sine and tangent are odd
  94.    wt: 6:   13 Graph of tangent function many periods
  95.    wt: 6:   12 Graph of tangent function for one period
  96.    wt: 6:   11 tangent function undefined when terminal side vertical
  97.    wt: 6:   10 Graphs of sines and cosines many periods
  98.    wt: 6:   9 Graphs of sine and cosine over one period
  99.    wt: 6:   8 period of tangent function
  100.    wt: 6:   7 period of sine and cosine
  101.    wt: 6:   6 sines and cosines for reference angle 30 degrees
  102.    wt: 6:   5 sines and cosines for reference angle 60 degrees
  103.    wt: 6:   4 sines and cosines for reference angle 45 degrees
  104.    wt: 6:   3 sines and cosines for reference angle 90 degrees
  105.    wt: 6:   2 Quadrant I reference Angles
  106.    wt: 6:   1 Unit Points Reflections Rotations
  107.    wt: 6:   8 Unit Circle Development of Trigonometry
  108.    wt: 6:   8 Triangles Cascade Problem Solving
  109.    wt: 6:   7 Trignometric Ratios Unit Circle
  110.    wt: 6:   5 Trigonometric Ratios For Tangent and Special Triangles
  111.    wt: 6:   4 Trigonometric Ratios For Two Special Triangles
  112.    wt: 6:   3 Trigonometric Ratios sine and cosine
  113.    wt: 6:   2 Similar Triangles Equality of Corresponding Side Ratios
  114.    wt: 6:   1 Angle Measurement with Degrees
  115.    wt: 6:   Four Simple Exercises
  116.    wt: 6:   12 Links Lessons elsewhere
  117.    wt: 6:   11 A Partial Summary
  118.    wt: 6:   10 Midpoint of [a b] and [b a]
  119.    wt: 6:   9 Midpoint Coordinates Half Endpoint Sum
  120.    wt: 6:   8 Mid Point Formula
  121.    wt: 6:   7 Exercises to test skill and concept mastery
  122.    wt: 6:   5 Algebraic View of Slopes
  123.    wt: 6:   2 point slope equation for a line
  124.    wt: 6:   What is and is not here
  125.    wt: 6:   PS C Similarity Use Recognize it in Trigonometry
  126.    wt: 6:   14 Parallel Lines Postulate
  127.    wt: 6:   10 Dropping a perpendicular to line
  128.    wt: 5:   16 cotangent function Definition Graph and Inverse
  129.    wt: 5:   15 cosecant function Definition Graph and Inverse
  130.    wt: 5:   14 secant function Definition Graph and Inverse
  131.    wt: 5:   13 cosecant function Definition Graph and Inverse
  132.    wt: 5:   12 motivation for term arctan
  133.    wt: 5:   11 arctan left inverse of tangent Graph
  134.    wt: 5:   10 arctan left inverse of tangent Definition
  135.    wt: 5:   9 motivation for name arcsin
  136.    wt: 5:   8 arcsin left inverse of sine Graph
  137.    wt: 5:   7 arcsin left inverse of sine Definition
  138.    wt: 5:   6 Graph of arccos function
  139.    wt: 5:   5 Swapping Coordinates is a reflection
  140.    wt: 5:   4 possible motivation for term arccos
  141.    wt: 5:   3 Left Inverse of cosine arccos definition
  142.    wt: 5:   2 cosine function more properties
  143.    wt: 5:   1 cosine function properties
  144.    wt: 5:   9 Summary Degrees to Radians and back
  145.    wt: 5:   8 Radian Measures of Common Angles
  146.    wt: 5:   7 Radian Measures in special Triangles
  147.    wt: 5:   6 Radian Measure to Degrees
  148.    wt: 5:   5 Degrees to Radian Measure
  149.    wt: 5:   4 Circle Sector Area proportional to Central Angle
  150.    wt: 5:   3 Circle Arclengh Proportional to Central Angle
  151.    wt: 5:   2 Radian Measure Numerical Value of one degree
  152.    wt: 5:   1 Degrees and Radians Introduction
  153.    wt: 5:   4 graphing y=Asin(x c)
  154.    wt: 5:   3 graphing y=f(x c) plus K
  155.    wt: 5:   2 Graphing y=Af(x) Vertical Scaling
  156.    wt: 5:   1 graphing y=f(x a)
  157.    wt: 5:   21 Logarithms Powers and Exponentials
  158.    wt: 5:   20 N th Roots of Complex Numbers
  159.    wt: 5:   19 N th Roots of Unity
  160.    wt: 5:   18 Sixth Roots of Unity
  161.    wt: 5:   17 Cube Roots of unity
  162.    wt: 5:   16 References and Originality Question
  163.    wt: 5:   15 Pythagorean Theorem Converse
  164.    wt: 5:   14 Law of cosines
  165.    wt: 5:   13 Trig Formulas for dot and cross Products
  166.    wt: 5:   12 cis formulas for sine cosines and tangent
  167.    wt: 5:   11 sine and cosine double triple angle formulas
  168.    wt: 5:   10 sine cosine Angle Sum Formulas via cis
  169.    wt: 5:   9 The complex number valued trig function cis
  170.    wt: 5:   7 Second Way to Calculate Products
  171.    wt: 5:   6 Field Properties of Complex Number
  172.    wt: 5:   5 An Easy Proof of the Distributive Law
  173.    wt: 5:   4 Multiplication Properties
  174.    wt: 5:   3 Addition Properties
  175.    wt: 5:   2 Complex Numbers made easier we hope
  176.    wt: 5:   1 Rectangular Polar Coordinates Review
  177.    wt: 5:   Appetizer A Complex Number Applet
  178.    wt: 5:   13 Navigation Location from Angles to 2 Landmarks
  179.    wt: 5:   12 Triangles Similarity More Problems
  180.    wt: 5:   11 Triangle Similarity Missing Side Problem
  181.    wt: 5:   10 Similarity of Triangles Equivalent of Two Criteria
  182.    wt: 5:   9 Similarity of Triangles Usual Criteria
  183.    wt: 5:   8 Similarity of Triangles and Polygons
  184.    wt: 5:   7 Translations Rotations Reflections Dilatations
  185.    wt: 5:   6 Geometric Diagrams in Class
  186.    wt: 5:   5 Similarity of Circles Squares and Rectangles
  187.    wt: 5:   4 Similarity Definition with Coordinate
  188.    wt: 5:   3 Similarity by Design with coordinates
  189.    wt: 5:   2 Similarity By Design
  190.    wt: 5:   1 Early Concept of Like or Similar Shapes
  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:   7 Complex Numbers Appetizer
  198.    wt: 5:   6 Polar Multiplication and Rotation
  199.    wt: 5:   5 Cartesian Addition and Translation
  200.    wt: 5:   4 Polar Coordinates to and from
  201.    wt: 5:   3 Rectangular Coordinates Review
  202.    wt: 5:   2 Cartesian Coordinates with signs
  203.    wt: 5:   1 Cartesian Coordinates sans signs
  204.    wt: 5:   Euclidean Geometry Elsewhere LINKS
  205.    wt: 5:   PS H Distributive Law For Complex Numbers
  206.    wt: 5:   PS G Rotation Distributes over Addition
  207.    wt: 5:   PS F Scalar Multiplication Distributes over Addition
  208.    wt: 5:   PS E Multiplication with Polar Coordinates
  209.    wt: 5:   PS D Addition with Cartesian Coordinates
  210.    wt: 5:   PS B Parallelogram Construction Methods
  211.    wt: 5:   PS A Kite Construction Methods
  212.    wt: 5:   21 Parallelograms
  213.    wt: 5:   19 Right Triangle Similarity
  214.    wt: 5:   18 Triangle Similarity Take 1
  215.    wt: 5:   17 Right Bisectors of Triangle Sides
  216.    wt: 5:   16 Angles Subtended By Chords and Diameters
  217.    wt: 5:   15 Triangle Angle Sum is 180 degrees
  218.    wt: 5:   13 Angle Side Angle Failure
  219.    wt: 5:   12 Side Angle Side Failure
  220.    wt: 5:   11 Triangle Construction Fails
  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:   5 Interpreting and Drawing Maps and Plans.
  234.    wt: 1:   About site lesson plans
  235.    wt: 1:   19 Signed Multiples of Vectors
  236.    wt: 1:   16 Collinear Horizontal Arrows Vectors
  237.    wt: 1:   13 Arrows and Vectors in a Plane
  238.    wt: 1:   8 Coordinates for Maps and Planes
  239.    wt: 1:   3 signed coordinates for maps and planes
  240.    wt: 1:   Chapter 23 Links To Trigonometry
  241.    wt: 1:   Chapter 20 Vectors and Complex Numbers
  242.    wt: 1:   Euclidean and Analytic Geometry with Complex Numbers and Trigonometry
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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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2 Formula Forward Use - Evaluation
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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


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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

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They cover basic topics in ways likely to complement your notes, your textbooks and site material. When Goldilocks trespassed in the house of the three bears, she found three bowls of porridge, two not to her liking, and one just right. Different bears have different tastes. As invited guest here and elsewhere, if one or more explanations is not to liking, try another. It may be better or just right.

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Learning to do and high marks if it comes to easy is often deceptive - light rather than deep. For that reason, students with learning difficulties determined not to let it get in their way may go deeper and farther than those with none. High marks, if the come easy, may be deceptive - provide a too light and not a deep mastery. That could have been your problem in secondary school, one that leads to comprehension shock or difficulties in calculus and more generally in the first year of college. Bon Appetite.

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