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Full Description
Bob Miller's fail-safe methodology helps students grasp basic math and pre-algebra. All of the courses in the junior high, high school, and college mathematics curriculum require a thorough grounding in the fundamentals, principles, and techniques of basic math and pre-algebra, yet many students have difficulty grasping the necessary concepts. Utilizing the author's acclaimed and patented fail-safe methodology for making mathematics easy to understand, "Bob Miller's Basic Math and Pre-Algebra for the Clueless" enhances students' facility in these techniques and in understanding the basics. This valuable new addition to "Bob Miller's Clueless" series provides students with the reassuring help they need to master these fundamental techniques, gives them a solid understanding of how basic mathematics works, and prepares them to perform well in any further mathematics courses they take.
Contents
Introductory terms, number theory, order of operations, terminology, exponents, products, quotients, distributive rule; integers plus signed numbers, basic operations, short division and distributive law; rational numbers (fractions); equations, introduction to solving algebraic word problems; graphing points and lines, slope, equation of the line; proportion, percentages, percentage problems; basic words with problems involving geometrical shapes and words; triangles, quadrilaterals, right triangles, Pythagorean theorem; areas, perimeters, other problems with triangles and quadrilaterals; circles (area, circumference, sectors, vocabulary, problems); three-dimensional shapes, volumes, surface areas; right angle trigonometry; functions with translations, rotations, shifts, stretches, compressions, reflections; introduction to sets and modular arithmetic; introduction to probability and statistics; the field axioms - applications to basic equations; miscellaneous - estimation, inequalities, absolute value, variation, matrices. Appendix - review of decimals.