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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 16:01:33 2020 No.11612758 View Reply Original Report

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Starting the SCI guide to learning math with this book in pic. The questions are fairly challenging.
Should I be supplementing this book with something like a standard algebra book used in US high schools/colleges? Any thoughts on the Shaum's series for practice books? Or should I just get the Lang Basic Math book.
In the Shaum series, is it feasible/advisable to do every problem?

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 18:52:03 No.11613252 Report

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>>11612758
What's your experience with basic algebra? If you are re-learning, just stick with this book do practice problems from a college textbook such this: http://msenux2.redwoods.edu/ElemAlgText/.
Lang's book is decent but too long.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 20:55:32 No.11613704 Report

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>>11613252
OP: Took high algebra/trig/calc I in high school but that was many years ago. Starting from scratch.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 21:29:26 No.11613845 Report

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>>11612758
>The questions are fairly challenging.
Unlike what passes as a "school algebra" book nowadays, that one is meant to make you think about what you are doing.
>In the [Schaum?] series, is it feasible/advisable to do every problem?
Probably not. Those books are filled to the brim with repetitive exercises. Just do the ones that seem most interesting from each chapter until you feel comfortable with the topic. For a review you shouldn't spend too much time on each topic — you're not learning it for the first time.

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Anonymous Tue 28 Apr 2020 23:26:05 No.11614272 Report

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Keep trucking boss, you're on the right path

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Anonymous Wed 29 Apr 2020 01:44:37 No.11614692 Report

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There's no fast way, you just slog through the exercises. Try a meme from scratch course too: https://learnaifromscratch.github.io/math.html

I prefer usually to just pick up a large Calculus book and work through it, then you backtrack all the algebra and whatever you forgot as you do the exercises.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Apr 2020 04:15:03 No.11615136 Report

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>The questions are fairly challenging
That's the point.
>Should I be supplementing this book with something like a standard algebra book used in US high schools/colleges
No. Maybe read "precalculus mathematics in a nutshell" by simmons if you're looking for a quick refresher.

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Anonymous Wed 29 Apr 2020 04:16:28 No.11615141 Report

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>Starting the SCI guide to learning math with this book in pic.
I don't seem to see it on here

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Anonymous Wed 29 Apr 2020 05:17:31 No.11615315 Report

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https://www.stitz-zeager.com/szprecalculus07042013.pdf

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