Easy Math Step-by-Step, Second Edition


Book Description

Get the knowledge and skills you need to solve math problems with confidence!This book won’t overwhelm you with endless drills. Instead, it offers an original, step-by-step approach to learning math. The book will first introduce you to essential math concepts—allowing you to grasp the subject almost immediately. You will gradually progress to more challenging skills. Along the way, you will learn how to solve practical problems using clear, step-by-step instructions. Exercises for each section, with detailed, worked-out solutions, let you check your progress. In no time at all, you will have acquired the knowledge and skills you need to solve math problems with confidence!Features•A unique building-block approach to mastering math•Down-to-earth explanations of important rules and concepts•Sample problems that are carefully explained—step by step•Exercises that will allow you to practice what you’ve learned and measure your progress•Insights on how to avoid common mistakes




Easy Mathematics Step-by-Step


Book Description

Take it step-by-step for math success! The quickest route to learning a subject is through a solid grounding in the basics. So what you won’t find in Easy Mathematics Step-by-Step is a lot of endless drills. Instead, you get a clear explanation that breaks down complex concepts into easy-to-understand steps, followed by highly focused exercises that are linked to core skills--enabling learners to grasp when and how to apply those techniques. This book features: Large step-by-step charts breaking down each step within a process and showing clear connections between topics and annotations to clarify difficulties Stay-in-step panels show how to cope with variations to the core steps Step-it-up exercises link practice to the core steps already presented Missteps and stumbles highlight common errors to avoid You can master math as long as you take it Step-by-Step!




Basic Math Refresher (REA)


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Everyday math for everyday people Finally, a common sense reference for math! Portable and very affordable, the Basic Math Refresher is the useful, practical, and informative way to understand all types of math fundamentals. Never worry about math again! Clear, concise entries by author Stephen Hearne make the complex seem simple by guiding you through the most basic of mathematical concepts up to math's more perplexing topics (including those perplexing fractions, percentages and measurements). This easy-to-follow reference is chock full of examples and real life situations making this book the perfect choice for everyone from the young math student to the businessperson to anyone with rusty math skills. Discover the single best resource for understanding basic math that is also the perfect companion for any reference library. Table of Contents PREFACE ADDITION SUBTRACTION MULTIPLICATION DIVISION DECIMALS ROUNDING PERCENTAGES FRACTIONS AVERAGES SALES TAX DISCOUNTS MEASUREMENTS GRAPHS




Davis's Basic Math Review for Nurses


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A path to conquering the math skills essential for nursing success...and reducing the anxieties math often induces! Step by step, skill by skill...students progress from simple to complex calculations, building their proficiencies and testing it along the way. It’s perfect for course review and quick reference.




Easy Precalculus Step-by-Step


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Take it step-by-step for pre-calculus success! The quickest route to learning a subject is through a solid grounding in the basics. So what you won’t find in Easy Pre-calculus Step-by-Step is a lot of endless drills. Instead, you get a clear explanation that breaks down complex concepts into easy-to-understand steps, followed by highly focused exercises that are linked to core skills--enabling learners to grasp when and how to apply those techniques. This book features: Large step-by-step charts breaking down each step within a process and showing clear connections between topics and annotations to clarify difficulties Stay-in-step panels show how to cope with variations to the core steps Step-it-up exercises link practice to the core steps already presented Missteps and stumbles highlight common errors to avoid You can master pre-calculus as long as you take it Step-by-Step!




Easy Algebra Step-by-Step, Second Edition


Book Description

The Quick and Effective Way to Learn Algebra The fastest way to learn algebra is to build a solid foundation in the basics. Inside this book you won’t find a lot of endless drills. Instead, you get an original, step-by-step approach to learning algebra. In your first steps, you are introduced to essential concepts—allowing you to grasp the subject almost immediately. You will gradually progress to more challenging skills. Along the way, the authors show you how to solve practical problems using clear, step-by-step instructions. Exercises for each section, with detailed, worked-out solutions, will let you check your progress. In no time at all, you will have acquired the knowledge and skills you need to solve algebraic problems with confidence. Easy Step-by-Step Algebra features: • A unique building-block approach to mastering algebra • Down-to-earth explanations of important rules and concepts • Sample problems that are carefully explained—step by step • Insights on how to avoid common mistakes • Exercises to practice what you’ve learned and measure your progress • Brand-new chapters—Signal Words and Phrases and Word Problems—that will round out your new set of math skills




Easy Pre-Calculus Step-by-Step, Second Edition


Book Description

Get the knowledge and skills you need to solve pre-calculus problems with confidence!The quickest route to learning a subject is through a solid grounding in the basics. Rather than endless drills, this accessible guide presents an original, step-by-step approach to help you develop a better understanding of pre-calculus topics. You’ll find important concepts linked together by clear explanations, invaluable exercises, and helpful worked-out problems. Once you’ve mastered the topics in this book, you will find yourself well-equipped to begin your calculus studies. This book features:•A new Trigonometry chapter that will round out your pre-calculus studies•Clear explanations that break down concepts into easy-to-understand steps•Stay-in-step "pop-ups" offering helpful advice and cautions against common errors•Step-it-up skill-building exercises linking practice to the core steps already presented•Worked-out solutions to all exercises that reinforce understanding of concepts




Linear Algebra Done Right


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This text for a second course in linear algebra, aimed at math majors and graduates, adopts a novel approach by banishing determinants to the end of the book and focusing on understanding the structure of linear operators on vector spaces. The author has taken unusual care to motivate concepts and to simplify proofs. For example, the book presents - without having defined determinants - a clean proof that every linear operator on a finite-dimensional complex vector space has an eigenvalue. The book starts by discussing vector spaces, linear independence, span, basics, and dimension. Students are introduced to inner-product spaces in the first half of the book and shortly thereafter to the finite- dimensional spectral theorem. A variety of interesting exercises in each chapter helps students understand and manipulate the objects of linear algebra. This second edition features new chapters on diagonal matrices, on linear functionals and adjoints, and on the spectral theorem; some sections, such as those on self-adjoint and normal operators, have been entirely rewritten; and hundreds of minor improvements have been made throughout the text.




How to Prove It


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Many students have trouble the first time they take a mathematics course in which proofs play a significant role. This new edition of Velleman's successful text will prepare students to make the transition from solving problems to proving theorems by teaching them the techniques needed to read and write proofs. The book begins with the basic concepts of logic and set theory, to familiarize students with the language of mathematics and how it is interpreted. These concepts are used as the basis for a step-by-step breakdown of the most important techniques used in constructing proofs. The author shows how complex proofs are built up from these smaller steps, using detailed 'scratch work' sections to expose the machinery of proofs about the natural numbers, relations, functions, and infinite sets. To give students the opportunity to construct their own proofs, this new edition contains over 200 new exercises, selected solutions, and an introduction to Proof Designer software. No background beyond standard high school mathematics is assumed. This book will be useful to anyone interested in logic and proofs: computer scientists, philosophers, linguists, and of course mathematicians.




Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Workbook For Dummies


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When you have the right math teacher, learning math can be painless and even fun! Let Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Workbook For Dummies teach you how to overcome your fear of math and approach the subject correctly and directly. A lot of the topics that probably inspired fear before will seem simple when you realize that you can solve math problems, from basic addition to algebraic equations. Lots of students feel they got lost somewhere between learning to count to ten and their first day in an algebra class, but help is here! Begin with basic topics like interpreting patterns, navigating the number line, rounding numbers, and estimating answers. You will learn and review the basics of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Do remainders make you nervous? You’ll find an easy and painless way to understand long division. Discover how to apply the commutative, associative, and distributive properties, and finally understand basic geometry and algebra. Find out how to: Properly use negative numbers, units, inequalities, exponents, square roots, and absolute value Round numbers and estimate answers Solve problems with fractions, decimals, and percentages Navigate basic geometry Complete algebraic expressions and equations Understand statistics and sets Uncover the mystery of FOILing Answer sample questions and check your answers Complete with lists of ten alternative numeral and number systems, ten curious types of numbers, and ten geometric solids to cut and fold, Basic Math and Pre-Algebra Workbook For Dummies will demystify math and help you start solving problems in no time!