Description
Book SynopsisAlgebra is the language that must be mastered for any course that uses math because it is the gateway for entry into any science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) discipline. This book fosters mastery of critical math and algebraic concepts and skills essential to all of the STEM disciplines and some of the social sciences. This book is written by practitioners whose primary teaching subject is not math but who use math extensively in their courses in STEM disciplines, social science statistics, and their own research. Moreover, in the writing of this book, the authors have used the teaching principles of anchoring, overlearning, pruning the course to its essentials, and using simple and familiar language in word problems.
Trade ReviewThis book should be useful to at least four teaching audiences: 1. college professors teaching remedial math courses 2. high school teachers teaching intensive “catch-up” math courses, such as Algebra II, in a summer session 3. other math professionals teaching preparatory courses for college placement, such as for the scholastic aptitude test 4. math-trained professionals who are engaged in home-schooling efforts. A fifth audience is, of course, students who will be involved in these programs. * Zentralblatt MATH *
Table of ContentsChapter 1 1 The GAP Program—Five Teaching Strategies for Basic Math and Algebra Chapter 2 2 Finding Gaps and Honing Basic Skills Chapter 3 3 Mental Math Chapter 4 4 Integers and Arithmetic Operations Chapter 5 5 Data, Statistics, and Graphs Chapter 6 6 A Love-Hate Relationship Chapter 7 7 The Two Great Devils—The Negative Sign and the Negative Numbers Chapter 8 8 Change for Currency Notes—Simple Fractions Chapter 9 9 Exponents—Powers of 10 Chapter 10 10 Powers of Variables and Constants Chapter 11 11 The World of Expressions and Elementary Equations Chapter 12 12 The Algebra Savior—Cross Products Chapter 13 13 Ratio and Proportion Chapter 14 14 Just Shopping for the Best Deal Chapter 15 15 How Big?—Perimeter, Area, and Volume Chapter 16 16 Slopes and Intercepts on the Algebra Trail Chapter 17 17 Mixed Numerals Chapter 18 18 Polynomials and Their Basic Operations Chapter 19 19 Factoring Chapter 20 20 Rational, Complex Rational and Radical Expressions—Becoming an Algebra Guru
