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What's Behind the Rules?

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What's Behind the Rules?

This first chapter starts off with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and a few other things. It gives a demonstration of th...

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Not So Scary Calculus

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Not So Scary Calculus

Given that the vast majority of people reading this book will never ever have to teach calculus, you might be wondering why in the world the topic is ...

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Fractions and More Rules

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Fractions and More Rules

This chapter deals with fractions and decimals. This is one place where people who are otherwise fine with math jump off the boat and decide it's jus...

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Loose Ends

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Loose Ends

This chapter contains basic material related to exponents that is a supplement to Chapters 1 and 2. Keeping with the theme of the first two chapters,...

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Negative Influence

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Negative Influence

This chapter is all about negative numbers, and how to deal with them. They're not all that difficult to understand, but for some reason people get j...

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Why Do They Have to Gum Everything Up With Those Letters?

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Why Do They Have to Gum Everything Up With Those Letters?

Often people who are relatively comfortable doing math with numbers completely freak out when variables (you know, those letters that take the place o...

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All Things Being Equal...Or Not

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All Things Being Equal...Or Not

Now that we've covered at least a few examples of how we get equations from the physical world, it's time to work on solving those equations. Solving...

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Pie are not Round; <i>&pi;</i>²

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Pie are not Round; <i>&pi;</i>²

What would a math book be without a nerdy math joke? Bad joke aside, you might recognize &pi;² as the formula for the area of a circle. And you mig...

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