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YOU are better than YOU think. Show yourself  how: 

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Read  logic chapters 1 to 5  in online volume Three Skills for Algebra  for greater skills & confidence in  work 
and study.

Read notes and textbooks like a lawyer, so that no nuance, no subtlety and no clause escapes your attention. 

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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
 Amazing, Amusing, Amorous,  Delicious, Delightful, Edifying, Strengthening Elixir. 
It eases work & learning difficulties Makes the hard easier. Opens eyes. Leads to greater precision.
in reading and
writing

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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Caution: Site advice is approximately correct, for some circumstances, not all. That leaves room for thought

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What may be learnt and when depends on how skills and concepts are developed. Making the hard easier and clearer will allow earlier & richer development of skills and concepts.


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For online automated help in senior high school maths & calculus, visit  quickmath.com  For Automatic Calculus and Algebra Help with derivatives, integrals, graphs, linear equations, matrix algebra, visit calc101.com  With  overlap, each site quickmath & calc101offers a different range of services, some free, some not, all based on webmathematica. Good luck.

General Links:

The Purple Math lesson at  purplemath.com/modules includes analytic geometry topics.


The Online Book, Understanding Algebra by James Brennan complements site material. TOC follows.
  1. Chapter 1- The Numbers of Arithmetic
  2. Chapter 2- Introduction to Algebra
  3. Chapter 3- Word Problems
  4. Chapter 4- Graphing and Straight Lines
  1. Chapter 5- Systems of Linear Equations
  2. Chapter 6- Polynomials
  3. Chapter 7- Rational Expressions
  4. Chapter 8- Exponents and Roots
  5. Chapter 9- Quadratic Equations

Visit the Finite Mathematics and Applied Calculus Resource Page. Its  tutorial index points to many online tutorials with topics not covered at this site plus a different viewpoint of topics here

Working with Vectors - From Jenny Olive, author of Maths, Student Survival Guide for science and engineering students.

Complex Numbers and Trigonometry

  1. Hot (New August 3, 2001)   Webpages Complex Numbers and  Distributive Law for Complex Numbers  offer a quick way to understand and explain complex numbers and trigonometry  Is there is a quicker way to explain  trig and complex numbers, etc?

  2. Applied Calculus Everything - more online text on or for books by Stefan Waner and Steven R. Costenoble, Covers Calculus and Some Trig.

  3. Complex numbers from Math Abundance.

  4. Trig without Tears - Basic ideas plus the cis(iA) = exp(i A) approach to trigonometry. Best explored after a knowledge of complex numbers and the Pythagorean theorem.

  5. Trigonometry from SOS Math

  6. Complex Numbers from SOS Math

  7. The Exambot website in British Columbia offer reference material (definitions and such), problems and answers to them in trig, calculus and physics. Perhaps the best to start is with  its help page. See it is web links.

Interactive Mathematics, local & away

  1. Try the local Complex Number Applet to see how to add or  multiply points and vectors  in the Cartesian or Complex Number  plane
  2. Automatic Calculus Derivatives and Integrals - Many worked examples with free evaluation of derivatives and polynomial operations, plus password access for a price to evaluation of integrals. Special notation required to enter your problems. Step by step solutions!
  3. The Integrator - free evaluation of integrals 

  4. Online questions covering sets, coordinates, algebra, trig and calculus from Maths Online  (Answers multiple choice, drag and drop)
  5. The best inlinks to the Mathematica Web Server Home Page are given by Math Links and Tools Page at Maths Online. Links give tools for common calculation in algebra, geometry, trig and calculus.
  6. On-Line Tutorials (with interactive questions) for or from three books Finite Mathematics, Applied Calculus Finite Mathematics & Applied Calculus, by Stefan Waner and Steven R. Costenoble,
  7. Science > Math > Education > Java Applets Dozens of Applets.
Favorites from the work of  Tom Leathrum (precalculus to calculus)

Mathlets: JavaTM Applets for Math Explorations

Clicking on an example in most of the following pages  will enter the coefficients  in the applet.

  1. Numerical Applet graphing a parabolas in both standard form, y=a(x-h)2+k, and general form, y=ax2+bx+c with buttons allowing you to change coefficients. See how changes in coefficients in one representation changes the coefficients in another. 

  2. Numerical Applet that graphs a polynomial given its roots. 

  3. Numerical Applet that Graphs a periodic function of the form y=A sin(Bx+C)+D, showing transformations corresponding to changing the values of the coefficients.

  4. Numerical Applet Parametric Paths (3-D Graphing). Graphs a path in three dimensions specified parametrically, as x=f(t), y=g(t), and z=h(t), with parameter t

Complex Numbers and Trigonometry

  1. Complex numbers from Math Abundance.

  2. Trig without Tears - Basic ideas plus the cis(iA) = exp(i A) approach to trigonometry. Best explored after a knowledge of complex numbers and the Pythagorean theorem.

  3. Trigonometry from SOS Math

  4. Complex Numbers from SOS Math

  5. The Exambot website in British Columbia offer reference material (definitions and such), problems and answers to them in trig, calculus and physics. Perhaps the best to start is with  its help page. See it is web links.

Geometry

  1. Top Study Geometry:  Seven Interactive (step by steps) online proofs of (1) vertically opposite angles are equal, (2) Sum of angles in a triangle = 180 degrees (3) equality of angles at base of an isosceles triangle ..
  2. TopStudy More Geometry More Seven More Interactive (step by steps) online proofs
  3. Top Study MATH Link  Visit here for Arc, Area and Volume Calculation (Mensuration) formulas
  4. Working with Vectors - From Jenny Olive, author of Maths, Student Survival Guide for science and engineering students.

 



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Equal Sign Use/Abuse
Real Numbers
Say More Positive
Linear Inequalities
Triangle Inequality
Absolute Value |x|
|x| Eq'ns & Inequalities
Rectangular Coords
Shortest Path
Distance Formulas
Add & Multiply Points
Polar Coordinates
Radians
(A) Vectors
(A) Coordinate Arithmetic
(A) Navigation on Maps
(A) Addition Geometrically
(A) Rotation
(PT) Translations
(PT) Dilatations
PT: Rotations


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Easy Consequences of  this (newest) Complex Number. Starter Lesson follow below to provide an alternate development of HS or college maths.

Vec & Cmplx  No Applet
B2 C. Conjugates
B3 Pythagoras
B4 Distance
B5 Rt Triangle Similarity
B6 Trig., Functions
B7 Dot & Cross Products
B8 Cosine Law
B9 Exponential & cis fns
B10 Easy Trig Identities
B11 Set Viewpoint

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Fractions
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Using formulas forwards & Backwards - A unifying theme for algebra skill development - the 4th skill in Volume 2, Three Skills for Algebra!

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