Description: Essential Prealgebra Skills Practice Workbook Description: Product Description This math workbook, authored by Chris McMullen, Ph.D., is focused on essential prealgebra skills. It includes examples, plenty of practice problems, answers, and full solutions to most problems. Topics include: order of operations; PEMDAS fractions, decimals, and percents exponents and square roots a beginning introduction to working with variables ratios and rates negative numbers other prealgebra skills The author, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., has over twenty years of experience teaching math skills to physics students. He prepared this workbook of the Improve Your Math Fluency series to share his strategies for applying arithmetic and prealgebra skills. From the Author What exactly is prealgebra? One goal of prealgebra is to improve fluency in a variety of arithmetic skills. That fluency helps make a successful transition into algebra (whereas lack of fluency in arithmetic can make algebra that much more difficult). A second goal of prealgebra is to get a little practice working with expressions and equations that include variables. If a student can master some fundamental algebra skills before taking algebra, this makes an algebra course easier. Chapter 1 offers practice working with exponents. This helps to build fluency with multiplication without the boring drill of standard multiplication problems. It also helps students become familiar with squares, cubes, and square roots. One section introduces the idea of multiplying negative numbers, and another applies this to powers. Sections on square roots and higher roots also address the idea of possible negative answers. Students also learn how to multiply square roots or factor out a perfect square. Chapter 2 covers the order of operations, which is important when doing arithmetic that combines multiple operations, like addition and multiplication, or which involves parentheses or exponents. Arithmetic with negative numbers is included in this chapter. While learning about the order of operations, students will indirectly build fluency with arithmetic facts. Chapter 3 begins by reviewing fractions, including reduced fractions, mixed numbers, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and reciprocals. Chapter 3 then introduces important algebraic concepts, like negative exponents, fractional exponents, and how to rationalize a denominator. Chapter 4 covers decimals, including place value, powers of ten, scientific notation, converting between fractions and decimals, repeating decimals, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, powers, and dollars and cents. Chapter 5 covers percents, including conversions between decimals and percents, conversions between fractions and percents, discounts, sales tax, simple interest, and percent increase or decrease. Chapter 6 introduces fundamental algebra skills that involve expressions, including combining like terms, operations with variables, powers of variables, the distributive property, the FOIL method, factoring, the square of the sum, and the difference of squares. Chapter 7 introduces fundamental algebra skills that involve equations, including one-step equations, isolating the unknown, negative coefficients, fractional coefficients, exponents of variables, roots of variables, variables in the denominator, cross multiplying, and special solutions. Chapter 8 focuses on ratios and proportions, which involve reasoning skills. Chapter 9 focuses on the rate equation, which is a simple yet important application of algebra. Chapter 10 covers inequalities. Which book comes after this prealgebra book? The natural progression would be to use Master Essential Algebra Skills Practice Workbook by Chris McMullen, Ph.D. Master Essential Algebra Skills starts with basic concepts, covers fundamental algebra skills, and builds up from there. With nearly 400 pages, Master Essential Algebra Skills is the author's most comprehensive algebra book. Returns: In the unlikely event that you would like to return your purchase, we allow returns that are processed within 30 days of date of purchase. Please contact us for a return authorization and the return shipping address. Shipping costs are non-refundable. Payment: The following forms of payment are accepted: PayPal All major credit cards. Shipping: Our orders are generally handled and processed within 1-2 business days. Expedited shipping options are also available and can be selected during checkout. At this time, we only ship to physical addresses that are located within the 48 contiguous states of the United States of America. We are unable to ship to P.O. boxes, APO or FPO addresses, or international addresses directly. We are not responsible for undeliverable / incorrect addresses
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Publisher: Zishka Publishing
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: General
Educational Level: High School, Elementary School
Language: English
Publication Name: Essential Prealgebra Skills Practice Workbook
Type: Study Guide
Subject Area: Education, Mathematics
Author: Chris Mcmullen
Format: Trade Paperback
