Life of Fred Advanced Algebra & Home Companion
by Ph.D. Stanley F. Schmidt Author
(From Amazon): Life of Fred books provide a self teaching, self contained, comprehensive math program with answers included. The character Fred explains the need for math in everyday life.Life of Fred: Advanced Algebra covers: Ratio, Proportion amp Variation, Radicals, Logarithms, Graphing, Systems of Equations, Conics, Functions, Linear Programming, Partial Fractions, Math Induction, Sequences, Series, Matrices, Permutations amp Combinations.This book is to be used with Fred s Home Companion: Advanced Algebra study guide and answer key. Author: Stanley F. Schmidt Format: 318 pages, hardcover Grade: 10 Publisher: Polka Dot Publishing ISBN: 9780970999528
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 0970999526
- Print Status
- In Print
- Lesson s
- 101
- Suggested Grades
- 10th - 12th
- Publisher
- Polka Dot Publishing
- Copyright
- 2002
Lesson s
- 1 Ratios, Median Averages, Proportions
- 2 Solving Proportions by Cross-Multiplying
- 3 Constants of Proportionality
- 4 Inverse Variation
- 5 End of the Chapter -- Review and Testing Part One
- 6 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Two
- 7 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Three
- 8 Rules of Exponents
- 9 Rationalizing the Denonminator
- 10 Solving Radical Equations, Extraneous Roots
- 11 Surface Area of a Cone
- 12 The Complete History of Mathematics (almost)
- 13 The Mass of Moving Objects or A Ten-Ton Nickel
- 14 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part One
- 15 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Two
- 16 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Three
- 17 Venn Diagrams, Disjoint Sets, Union and Intersection of Sets
- 18 Subsets, Using Venn Diagrams in Counting Problems
- 19 Significant Digits
- 20 Setting Up Exponential Equations
- 21 Solving Exponential Equations
- 22 Product and Quotient Rules for Logs
- 23 Finding Anti-logs
- 24 First Definition of Logarithm
- 25 Second Definition of Logarithm, The Change of Base Rule
- 26 Third Definition of Logarithm, Logical Implication
- 27 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part One
- 28 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Two
- 29 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Three
- 30 Graphing by Point-Plotting
- 31 Glossary of Graphing Terms
- 32 Slope
- 33 Finding the Slope Given Two Points
- 34 Slope-intercept and Double-intercept Forms of the Line
- 35 Point-slope and Two-point Forms of the Line
- 36 Perpendicular Lines Have Slopes Whose Product Equals -1
- 37 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part One
- 38 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Two
- 39 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Three
- 40 Multiplying Binomials
- 41 Common Factors
- 42 Factoring Easy Trinomials, Difference of Squares
- 43 Factoring by Grouping, Factoring Harder Trinomials
- 44 Simplifying, Adding, and Subtracting Fractions
- 45 Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
- 46 Solving Fractional Equations, Solving Quadratic Equations
- 47 Solving Radical Equations
- 48 Systems of Equations, Inconsistent Equations, Dependent Equations
- 49 Graphing Planes in Three Dimentions
- 50 Cramer's Rule
- 51 2x2 Determinants
- 52 3x3 Determinants
- 53 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part One
- 54 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Two
- 55 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Three
- 56 Ellipses
- 57 Circles
- 58 A Definition of Ellipses
- 59 Reflective Property of Ellipses
- 60 Parabolas
- 61 Hyperbolas
- 62 Graphing Inequalities, Definition of a Conic Section
- 63 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part One
- 64 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Two
- 65 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Three
- 66 Domain, Codomain, Definition of Function
- 67 Is This a Function?
- 68 Naming Functions, f:A B Notation
- 69 One-to-one Functions, Inverse Functions
- 70 Guess the Function
- 71 The Story of the Big Motel- adding One to Infinity
- 72 Onto Functions, One-to-one Correspondences
- 73 Functions as Ordered Pairs, Relations, the Identity Function
- 74 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part One
- 75 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Two
- 76 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Three
- 77 Degree of a Term, Degree of a Polynomial
- 78 Long Division of Polynomials
- 79 Partial Fractions
- 80 Proofs by Math Induction
- 81 Plotting the Constraints for Linear Programming, Big Numbers
- 82 The Second Half of the Linear Programming
- 83 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part One
- 84 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Two
- 85 End of the Chapter - Review And Testing Part Three
- 86 Arithmetic Progressions
- 87 Adding and Multiplying Matrices
- 88 Geometric Sequences
- 89 Sum of a Geometric Progression, Sigma Notation
- 90 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part One
- 91 End of the Chapter - Review and TestingPart Two
- 92 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Three
- 93 The Fundamental Principle of Counting
- 94 Permutation of n Things Taken r at a Time
- 95 Combination of n Things Taken r at a Time
- 96 The Binomial Formula
- 97 Pascal's Triangle
- 98 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part One
- 99 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Two
- 100 End of the Chapter - Review and Testing Part Three
- 101 The Hardest Problem in Advanced Algebra
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