R&L Education
Pages: 140
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Trim: 8¾ x 11¼
978-1-61048-378-0 • Paperback • July 2011 • $40.00 • (£30.00)
Daryo Khatri is president/CEO of TopTech, Inc. and professor of physics at the University of District of Columbia.
Anne O. Hughes is a retired professor of sociology and anthropology at the University of District of Columbia.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 3Mental Math
Chapter 3 4Integers and Arithmetic Operations
Chapter 4 5Data, Statistics, and Graphs
Chapter 5 6A Love-Hate Relationship
Chapter 6 7The Two Great Devils—The Negative Sign and the Negative Numbers
Chapter 7 8Change for Currency Notes—Simple Fractions
Chapter 8 9Exponents—Powers of 10
Chapter 9 10Powers of Variables and Constants
Chapter 10 11The World of Expressions and Elementary Equations
Chapter 11 12The Algebra Savior—Cross Products
Chapter 12 13Ratio and Proportion
Chapter 13 14Just Shopping for the Best Deal
Chapter 14 15How Big?—Perimeter, Area, and Volume
Chapter 15 16Slopes and Intercepts on the Algebra Trail
Chapter 16 17Mixed Numerals
Chapter 17 18Polynomials and Their Basic Operations
Chapter 18 19Factoring
Chapter 19 20Rational, Complex Rational and Radical Expressions—Becoming an Algebra Guru
The 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