Download or read book A Primer in Elementary Mathematics written by Alexander I. Kheyfits and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-20 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text in elementary mathematics for high-school graduates preparing for college and for college students enrolled in any remedial or developmental mathematics class

Download or read book A Primer in Elementary Mathematics written by Alexander Kheyfits and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-24 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to recent ACT scores, http: //www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/21/act-scores-fall-lowest-level-five-years (accessed on Aug. 24, 2013) about three-quarters of U.S. high-school graduates are not ready for college-level mathematics courses. No wonder, remedial mathematics classes are so widespread nationwide: far too many incoming students are not prepared for college-level courses. One reason for this unpreparedness is a lack of substantive knowledge in mathematics. Another, perhaps even a more important reason, is that students lack the necessary skills and habits required for successful study of mathematics. Based on the author's 50+ year-experience of teaching mathematics at all levels, from elementary school to community college, undergraduate, and graduate levels, the goal of this book is to teach the readers the absolutely minimal mathematical content required to successfully take college-level mathematics classes. This is a textbook for college courses in remedial mathematics, which are taught, under different names, at the many of American colleges. However, it is not another book in Developmental Mathematics. The latter mostly neglect geometry, trigonometry, and never pay attention to elementary functions. However, these topics are crucial for a student's success at college and, therefore, these topics are treated here as fully as possible within the power of the book's intended readership and the book volume. The book is also useful for high school students preparing for a college. This is also a textbook for students, who studied at high school, maybe several years back, and now have to quickly recover and/or study anew some rudimentary elementary mathematics, so that they can pass the college level classes necessary for their major. As illustrations of basic arithmetic and elementary algebraic concepts, certain notions of the elementary statistics are introduced. This is useful for the students who do not need a calculus, but almost sure will have to take a class in statistics. The author's experience shows that the students' troubles in calculus begin not in high school, but in elementary school and even at the kindergarten level. Hence the book starts with a very detailed explanation of the arithmetic of whole numbers. The author's teaching creed is 'explain by examples', and every new notion is introduced and illustrated by several elementary examples. Moreover, the text also provides certain helpful concepts, which are mostly neglected in high-school teaching, such as how to study mathematics, what is mathematical parlance, how to read a mathematical textbook, etc. The book tries not only to provide certain results and skills, but to engage the reader into thinking about the subject. The author tried to make the book user-friendly. The text contains about 500 exercises for the readers to practice, and gives answers to all of the exercises. In addition to the standard index of key terms, the book contains the index "How to" of presented algorithms, such as "How to add fractions," "How to solve quadratic equations," etc. The target audience is undergraduate freshmen, enrolled in remedial mathematics courses. At my Bronx Community College/CUNY, which is a typical school, every year about 85% of incoming students must take at least one remedial mathematics class. And every year the Department struggles to find good books for our three remedial courses. This book covers any possible remedial mathematics class. It may also be useful for high-school students, preparing for college. Moreover, based on my experience, the book can also be useful to many elementary school teachers. Based on my significant experience with our foreign students, I'm sure that this book, which shows what the future students of American colleges and universities must know, has a huge market in Asia and Africa.

Download or read book A Primer in Elementary Mathematics written by Alexander Kheyfits and published by Primersxa. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to recent ACT scores, http: //www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/21/act-scores-fall-lowest-level-five-years (accessed on Aug. 24, 2013) about three-quarters of U.S. high-school graduates are not ready for college-level mathematics courses. No wonder, remedial mathematics classes are so widespread nationwide: far too many incoming students are not prepared for college-level courses. One reason for this unpreparedness is a lack of substantive knowledge in mathematics. Another, perhaps even a more important reason, is that students lack the necessary skills and habits required for successful study of mathematics. Based on the author's 50+ year-experience of teaching mathematics at all levels, from elementary school to community college, undergraduate, and graduate levels, the goal of this book is to teach the readers the absolutely minimal mathematical content required to successfully take college-level mathematics classes. This is a textbook for college courses in remedial mathematics, which are taught, under different names, at the many of American colleges. However, it is not another book in Developmental Mathematics. The latter mostly neglect geometry, trigonometry, and never pay attention to elementary functions. However, these topics are crucial for a student's success at college and, therefore, these topics are treated here as fully as possible within the power of the book's intended readership and the book volume. The book is also useful for high school students preparing for a college. This is also a textbook for students, who studied at high school, maybe several years back, and now have to quickly recover and/or study anew some rudimentary elementary mathematics, so that they can pass the college level classes necessary for their major. As illustrations of basic arithmetic and elementary algebraic concepts, certain notions of the elementary statistics are introduced. This is useful for the students who do not need a calculus, but almost sure will have to take a class in statistics. The author's experience shows that the students' troubles in calculus begin not in high school, but in elementary school and even at the kindergarten level. Hence the book starts with a very detailed explanation of the arithmetic of whole numbers. The author's teaching creed is 'explain by examples', and every new notion is introduced and illustrated by several elementary examples. Moreover, the text also provides certain helpful concepts, which are mostly neglected in high-school teaching, such as how to study mathematics, what is mathematical parlance, how to read a mathematical textbook, etc. The book tries not only to provide certain results and skills, but to engage the reader into thinking about the subject. The author tried to make the book user-friendly. The text contains about 500 exercises for the readers to practice, and gives answers to all of the exercises. In addition to the standard index of key terms, the book contains the index "How to" of presented algorithms, such as "How to add fractions," "How to solve quadratic equations," etc. The target audience is undergraduate freshmen, enrolled in remedial mathematics courses. At my Bronx Community College/CUNY, which is a typical school, every year about 85% of incoming students must take at least one remedial mathematics class. And every year the Department struggles to find good books for our three remedial courses. This book covers any possible remedial mathematics class. It may also be useful for high-school students, preparing for college. Moreover, based on my experience, the book can also be useful to many elementary school teachers. Based on my significant experience with our foreign students, I'm sure that this book, which shows what the future students of American colleges and universities must know, has a huge market in Asia and Africa.

Download or read book A Primer in Elementary Mathematics I Arithmetic and Elementary Algebra written by Alexander Kheyfits and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Kheyfits, A Primer In Elementary Mathematics. Volume I "Arithmetic and Elementary Algebra"; two other volumes are "Minimal Plane Geometry" and "Elementary Functions and Trigonometry." The book is written for the college students enrolled in any remedial/developmental mathematics college class, and for the motivated high school students or any other people who want to quickly review or even study from the beginning some minimal mathematical concepts necessary to take college-level classes. For 50 years the author has been teaching mathematics at all levels, from elementary through advanced graduate courses. The last 20 years he teaches at the City University of New York. Based on his half-century experience, he believes that every student has more than enough ability to study high school and college level mathematics; the real problem is the student's motivation and the acquiring the necessary study skills and habits. The book discusses certain issues, which are typically neglected in the classroom but are essential for the learner's success, such as how to study mathematics and to read mathematical books, what is the mathematical parlance, how to approach a problem, etc. The text strives to teach the reader to be an independent learner. The "Primer" contains many exercises for individual work, all of them with the answers.

Download or read book A Primer in Elementary Mathematics III Elementary Functions and Trigonometry written by Alexander Kheyfits and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem-solving based textbook for college students enrolled in remedial/developmental mathematics classes and for high-school students preparing for the college. Can be used for sekf-education.

Download or read book Logic in Elementary Mathematics written by Robert M. Exner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This accessible, applications-related introductory treatment explores some of the structure of modern symbolic logic useful in the exposition of elementary mathematics. Topics include axiomatic structure and the relation of theory to interpretation. No prior training in logic is necessary, and numerous examples and exercises aid in the mastery of the language of logic. 1959 edition"--

Download or read book A Primer in Elementary Mathematics II Minimal Plane Geometry written by Alexander Kheyfits and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-18 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem-solving based textbook for the college students in any remedial/developmental mathematics class and for high-school students studying for the college.

Download or read book A Primer of Discrete Mathematics written by Daniel Talbot Finkbeiner and published by W H Freeman & Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Primer of Real Analytic Functions written by KRANTZ and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject of real analytic functions is one of the oldest in mathe matical analysis. Today it is encountered early in ones mathematical training: the first taste usually comes in calculus. While most work ing mathematicians use real analytic functions from time to time in their work, the vast lore of real analytic functions remains obscure and buried in the literature. It is remarkable that the most accessible treatment of Puiseux's theorem is in Lefschetz's quite old Algebraic Geometry, that the clearest discussion of resolution of singularities for real analytic manifolds is in a book review by Michael Atiyah, that there is no comprehensive discussion in print of the embedding prob lem for real analytic manifolds. We have had occasion in our collaborative research to become ac quainted with both the history and the scope of the theory of real analytic functions. It seems both appropriate and timely for us to gather together this information in a single volume. The material presented here is of three kinds. The elementary topics, covered in Chapter 1, are presented in great detail. Even results like a real ana lytic inverse function theorem are difficult to find in the literature, and we take pains here to present such topics carefully. Topics of middling difficulty, such as separate real analyticity, Puiseux series, the FBI transform, and related ideas (Chapters 2-4), are covered thoroughly but rather more briskly.

Download or read book Primer Student Workbook written by Math-U-See and published by Math-U-See. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Primer on Mapping Class Groups written by Benson Farb and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of the mapping class group Mod(S) is a classical topic that is experiencing a renaissance. It lies at the juncture of geometry, topology, and group theory. This book explains as many important theorems, examples, and techniques as possible, quickly and directly, while at the same time giving full details and keeping the text nearly self-contained. The book is suitable for graduate students. A Primer on Mapping Class Groups begins by explaining the main group-theoretical properties of Mod(S), from finite generation by Dehn twists and low-dimensional homology to the Dehn-Nielsen-Baer theorem. Along the way, central objects and tools are introduced, such as the Birman exact sequence, the complex of curves, the braid group, the symplectic representation, and the Torelli group. The book then introduces Teichmüller space and its geometry, and uses the action of Mod(S) on it to prove the Nielsen-Thurston classification of surface homeomorphisms. Topics include the topology of the moduli space of Riemann surfaces, the connection with surface bundles, pseudo-Anosov theory, and Thurston's approach to the classification.

Download or read book Arithmetic Through Precalculus a Primer and Study Guide written by Alexander Kheyfits and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume text is designed for high-school students preparing for college, and for college students, who have to take a remedial mathematics course. In both cases the goal of this book is to help the students to learn the necessary mathematics and to go straightforwardly to college-level courses without taking the mathematical remediation at all, or complete it quickly. The book is also useful to people who, after spending a few years in workforce, decide to advance their life and career and go to college, but have to refresh their mathematical background. The text will be also useful as a reference book to the teachers and parents. The book is quite suitable for international students, who wish to study at any American or European college or university. This book contains brief introductions to the necessary topics, many examples with detailed solutions, and more than 500 exercises with answers for the students' individual practice. The book includes numerous tips on how to study mathematics and to approach typical problems. The author teaches at the City University of New York, and the text reflects the author's 50 years of experience in teaching mathematics at all levels, from high school to undergraduate to graduate school.

Download or read book Math Primer Book For KIDS written by ENGINEER ARPIT JAIN and published by TULSI SAHITYA PUBLICATIONS. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primary book of Math Primer for KIDS

Download or read book Exploring Elementary Mathematics Primer written by Leslie A. Dwight and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Primer of Abstract Mathematics written by Robert B. Ash and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2020-03-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to prepare the reader for coping with abstract mathematics. The intended audience is both students taking a first course in abstract algebra who feel the need to strengthen their background and those from a more applied background who need some experience in dealing with abstract ideas. Learning any area of abstract mathematics requires not only ability to write formally but also to think intuitively about what is going on and to describe that process clearly and cogently in ordinary English. Ash tries to aid intuition by keeping proofs short and as informal as possible and using concrete examples as illustration. Thus, it is an ideal textbook for an audience with limited experience in formalism and abstraction. A number of expository innovations are included, for example, an informal development of set theory which teaches students all the basic results for algebra in one chapter.

Download or read book Beyond the Core written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Core... was written for your six (6) year old child. It exists for the purpose of helping your heart's treasure go above and beyond the math barrier. It opens a future of infinite possibilities and rewards for young, absorbent minds. If you enjoy reading, singing, and playing, if your child's laughter and learning mean the world to you, then Beyond the Core... is for you! Learning math is vital. It is a strict gatekeeper for higher education. Beyond the Core helps open your child's mind. It draws on senses to quicken understanding, memory and performance. It quiets the inner voice for more focused attention and learning.Beyond the Core... Begins with the simple and builds understanding securely. Creates confidence through success and competence. Encourages practice with fun and play. Uses songs, stories and imagination to transfer knowledge. Makes counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing to a decillion, possible for the youngest learners. Enjoy quality time as your child learns better and faster. See math older children struggle to understand vanquished effortlessly. Enjoy watching your first grader easily perform tasks usually taught in the higher grades. If you seek a better education for your child, Beyond the Core will bring you great satisfaction.

Download or read book Success from the Start written by Kathy Ernst and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2014 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights how students learn math and the pedagogy behind it. Using vignettes based on real classroom discussions, the authors illustrate effective teaching practices to support math learning. Success from the Start: Your First Years Teaching Elementary Mathematics acts as a supportive and reassuring companion that you can return to throughout your journey as an elementary mathematics teacher. As a beginning elementary mathematics teacher you might already be asking yourself these questions: How can I differentiate my teaching to meet the diverse needs of my students? What assessments best advance student learning? How can students understand math if I do not show them different strategies and tell them about the underlying mathematical structures and properties? What advice do I give parents about how to support their children’s math learning?