Math remediation for the college bound : how teachers can close the gap, from the basics through algebra / Daryao S. Khatri and Anne O. Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khatri, Daryao S., 1945-

Contributor:

Hughes, Anne O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Algebra.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (298 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Algebra 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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Foreword; Chapter 1: The Gateway Academic Program; Chapter 2: Finding Gaps and Honing Basic Skills; Chapter 3: Mental Math; Chapter 4: Integers and Arithmetic Operations; Chapter 5: Data, Statistics, and Graphs; Chapter 6: A Sometimes Love-Hate Relationship; Chapter 7: The Two Great Devils; Chapter 8: Change for Currency Notes; Chapter 9: Exponents; Chapter 10: Powers of Variables and Constants; Chapter 11: The World of Expressions and Elementary Equations; Chapter 12: The Algebra Savior; Chapter 13: Ratio and Proportion

Chapter 14: Just Shopping for the Best DealChapter 15: How Big?; Chapter 16: Slopes and Intercepts on the Algebra Trail; Chapter 17: Mixed Numerals; Chapter 18: Polynomials and Their Basic Operations; Chapter 19: Factoring; Chapter 20: Rational, Complex Rational, and Radical Expressions; Finale; Index; About the Authors

Notes:

Includes index.

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ISBN:

979-82-16-22737-3

1-61048-367-7

1-61048-368-5

OCLC:

847527269