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Square Root Simplification
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Three Skills
For 
Algebra
Volume 2

Chapters and Appendices

Book Entrance

Addition with Decimals
Subtraction with Decimals
Multiplication with Decimals
Fraction Arithmetic
Recognizing Primes
Long Division for Decimals
Square Root Simplification
Greatest Common Divisors
Least Common Multiples

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3. Chains of Reason [3]
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8 The Three Skills
8 VNR-Concise-Encyclopedia
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9. Algebra Talk [7]
10 Two More Skills[5]
11 Why Shorthand
12 Shorthand Usage [10]
13 What's Next
PS: The 4-th Skill For Algebra
14 Compound Interest [6]
15 Linear Equations [5]
16 Painless Proofs
17 Pythagoras
PS I.  Distributive Law
PS II. Polynomials
18 Rules of Algebra [20]
19  Functions & Sets
20 Degrees & Radians
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23 Summation Notation
24 Your Money [3]
25 Induction & Recursion [4]
26 What's Next
27 Pronouns in Logic
28 Occurrence Tables
29 Contrapositive
30 Truth Tables
31 Indirect Reason
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What is a Variable?
Introduction
Variation between Examples

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Cases of Double Variation

Three Notions of a Variable

Constants, Parameters
& Variables

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Variable, a Matter of Choice

 

Videos on Square Root Simplification

a first use for primes and factorization of whole numbers

Here is a lesson on the cosmetic simplification of square roots of whole numbers without the use of decimal approximations.  The simplification is shown with or without the use of primes. Here computation may equal not the decimal approximation but the algebraic or cosmetic simplification of square roots. The examples below show how factorization and prime decomposition, together or not, may be used in the simplification process and also providing a stopping rule. See the videos.

  1. [Play Video] 5 minutes - Calculation of Squares and Square Roots for Natural Numbers without and with decimal approximations. Exact representation of square roots without approximation requires not using a calculating. That is important in algebra - the statement and derivation of formulas.
  2. [Play Video] 1¾ minutes - How to Compute Square Roots by Factorization
  3. [Play Video] 3 minutes - Computational Properties - More on square computation by factorization.
  4. [Play Video] 3 minutes - Examples of square root computation by factorization.
  5. [Play Video]3¾ minutes -  Examples of square root computation by prime factorization.

In algebra, this simplification rewrites square roots in a standard form, a standard that may lead to a common representation of square roots of whole numbers when they appear in formulas and the derivation or justification of formulas.


More Videos: Up ] Addition with Decimals ] Subtraction with Decimals ] Multiplication with Decimals ] Fraction Arithmetic ] Recognizing Primes ] Long Division for Decimals ] [ Square Root Simplification ] Greatest Common Divisors ] Least Common Multiples ]

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