Re: after beginner's algebra, where to?


Dave L. Renfro wrote:
Rufi_Dukes wrote:

after completing a beginner's course in algebra i was
hoping someone here could tell me two things:

[snip rest]

Since "beginning algebra" means different things
to different people (it can even mean different
things in the same high school under different
teachers), you should be specific about what
*you* mean by "beginning algebra". One way
you can do this is to cite the specific book(s)
[author(s), title, publisher, edition, date]
you've used and the chapters you've covered.

Dave L. Renfro

thx Dave; thx Lynn

here we go:
title: algebra demystified, (part of a series in which, so far,
astronomy, calculus and physics have all been "demystified"

authrhonda huettenmueller,
published by mcgraw-hill, 2003

chapters i've worked through:
1.fractions
2.into to variables
3.decimals
4. negative numbers
5. exponents and roots
6. factoring
7 linear equations
8 linear applications

chapters still to go:
9. linear inequalities
10. quadratic equations
11. quadratic applications

i'm middle-aged, highly motivated, with no time-constraints, having
taken a couple of years out from teaching; i plan to spend the rest of
this year (and next year if necessary) laying the foundations for
university level study of maths

i left formal school studies at age 16, having decided that i was
unredeemably degenerate in the maths centre of my brain;
i returned to uni studies as a mature-age student and took a degree in
french literature;

since then, i have become more and more passionate about wanting to
understand the physics i've been reading in popularized form for 20
years or so;

that's the personal interest side of my motivation;
the vocational part is as follows:
i plan to return to teaching, but only when i can do so as an
accredited maths teacher (i'm australian; we say "mathematics" or
"maths" here)

thx for taking the time Dave and Lynn,
rufus

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