How to Improve your Maths Skills, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (23 June 2011) © 2011

  • Steve Lakin Glamorgan University
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Title overview

This easy-to-use guide identifies and addresses the areas where most students need help with basic mathematical problems that occur in everyday life and academic study and provides straightforward, practical tips and solutions that will enable you to assess and then improve your performance.

Table of contents

Arithmetic

  1. 1 Basic Arithmetic and the “BODMAS” rule.
  2. 2 Negative numbers.
  3. 3 Fractions.
  4. 4 Percentages, ratios and proportions.
  5. 5 Decimals, decimal places and significant figures.
  6. 6 Scientific notation.
  7. 7 Indices.

Algebra

  1. 8 An introduction to algebra
  2. 9 Brackets in algebra.
  3. 10 Solving linear equations
  4. 11 Transposition and algebraic fractions
  5. 12 Simultaneous equations

Data

  1. 13 Presentation of data.
  2. 14 Measures of location and dispersion.
  3. 15 Straight Lines
  4. 16 Introduction to probability.

Other topics

  1. 17 Areas and volumes.
  2. 18 Logarithms
  3. 19 Quadratic equations
  4. 20 Trigonometry.
  5. 21 Inequalities and basic logic.

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