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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
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in reading and
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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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Chapter 2. Slopes and Ski Trails

  • [Play Video]  80 seconds: Slope Sign Interpretation for Linear Functions.  (Appeared earlier in  Why Slopes Appetizer)

Slopes of Line Segments

A tour of calculus begins. Recall how the slope to a straight line is computed. The slope m of a straight line segment between two points (x1,y1) and (x2,y2) may be calculated as follows.


slope     m = Dy
Dx
= y2-y1
x2-x1
= rise
run

The point-slope formula for a line
y = y1+m·(x-x1)
implies
y-y1 = m·(x-x1)
The latter says that the change Dy in y is proportional to the change in Dx in x. For a straight line segment, the slope m is a constant of proportionality between Dy = y-y1 and Dx = x-x1.

Remark.   A quantity Q2 is said to be proportional to a quantity Q1 when and only when there is a constant k such that Q2 = k·Q1. If a quantity Q2 is proportional to a quantity Q1 then the graph of Q2 versus Q1 is a straight line through the origin whose slope m = k is the constant of proportionality.

 

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- Preview, starter & further lessons for calculus to ease or avoid algebra shock in instruction & self-instruction

Foreword, One Calculus  preview and Online Chapters: (V) signals video (RealPlayer Format)  to watchChapters 2 to 6: offer a very simple preview of calculus and a context for earlier study of  slopes and factored polynomials 

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Chapter Descriptions
1. Introduction
2. Calculus Starter Lesson
2. Second Preview Begins
2 Skier in Motion (V)
2 The Skier (V)
2. Position Dependent (V)
3 Slope & Extrema (V)
4 Single Factor Analysis (V)
4 Two Factor (V)
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14 Limit of a Fn.
14. Limited Error Control
14 Signif. Digits
14 Cauchy Limits
14 Sequence Limits
14 Decimal Arith.
15 What is Slope (V)
15 Slope Calculation (V)
15 Slope, a Limit
15 Tangent Lines
15 Linear Approx.,
15 Limits via Algebra (V)
15 Recap.
PS.Chain Rule for Polys
PS Chain Rule- General  (V) -
PS More Chain Rule (V)
PS - Sign Analysis (V)
16 What is Velocity
17  What is Area
18 Integration
18 Area Calculation
18  Fn DefN, 6 Ways
19 Logs & Powers
19 Natural Log.
19 Exponential Fn.
20 What's Next
21 Add Vectors
22 Complex #'s
23 Complex #'s
23 Trig Identity
23 Proofs of.
24 Complex Logs etc

Units in Calculations:
7 Velocity
7 Varying Velocity Example
7. Velocity Calculation
7 Changing Units
7 Same Velocity  Motions
10 Slopes without Units.
10 Units & Slopes
10  Units in Cost vs. Quantity
10  How Units  Appear
10 Unit  Elimination
10 Partial Elimination
10 Interest & Units
12 More on Units
Content Guide

Enriched material: The Appendices of Volume 3 are located in the Real  Analysis  Area.

Pigeon Hole Principle
Constant Difference Thm
Continuous Functions
Rational Functions
Mean Value Theorem
One Side Range Theorem
Range On One Side Theorem
Integration & Lipschitz
 Continuity


These appendices continue the
decimal viewpoint of limits, error
control and continuity begun
in Chapter 14. The One Sided
 Range Theorem
is a postscript,
not in printed version.



Online Volume 2, Three Skills for Algebra, Chapters 1 to 25 - skip 18., verbalizes and explains key skills and concepts, those needed in calculus, again to make the hard easier. A visual understanding of complex numbers may help - serve as back ground info,  in partial fraction decomposition.

 

 


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