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What is similarity Euclidean geometry leanly Coordinates + complex no.s Vectors DC Electric Circuits
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What is a variable 5. Fraction Operations by Raising Terms Solving Linear Equations: Take I Take II

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

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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.

Geometry - maps plans trigonometry vectors

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.

More Algebra

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

The first topic leads to a full high school level theory for the forward and backward mastery of growth and decay models and for definition, range and domains of radicals, roots and powers. The next two topics make quadratics and polynomials easier to learn and teach. Site coverage of functions turns vertical and horizontal line rules into computation methods for evaluating functions.

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