Prealgebra
by Richard Rusczyk, David Patrick, Ravi Boppana · first published 2011
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…dichotomy in mathematics education" http://www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/fall1999/wu.pdf A recent effort to embody strong conceptual understanding of basic skills into a mathematics textbook is Prealgebra by Richard Rusczyk, David Patrick, and Ravi Boppana, https://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/viewitem.php?item=... which points to what young students should be able to do WITHOUT a calculator if…
on “The mathematics generation gap” ↗the lack of intuitive explanations for math is a major pet peeve of mine I'm a very visual thinker, and that is one reason I enjoy the new Art of Problem Solving textbook Prealgebra by Richard Rusczyk, David Patrick, and Ravi Boppana-- https://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Store/viewitem.php?item=... it is full of interesting visual "explanations" and substitute for proofs in a book…
on “What does 0^0 equal? Why do mathematicians and high school teachers disagree?” ↗Any artofproblemsolving.com book will be outstanding for this purpose. I suggest starting with Prealgebra by Richard Rusczyk.
on “Great books about mathematics” ↗…semester and tests several years ahead and has a very intuitive sense of why things work the way they do, I'd like to keep her interest. However, we're now on to pre-algebra and using this book [0], "Prealgebra: The Art of Problem Solving". The first chapter is all about axioms, proofs of some sort, breaking down "obvious" conclusions back to their constituent proof-from-first-principles and it's not agreeing…
on “Ask HN: How Do You Learn?” ↗