The math workshop : algebra
(1980)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
512.9/HUGHES-HALLETT,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, [1980]
©1980
©1980
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xiii, 483 pages, 40 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0393090302
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
Number system revisited -- The integers revisited -- The order of operations and the distributive law -- Fractions revisited -- Decimals revisited -- Roots and radicals -- Scientific notation -- Albegra: variables and expressions -- Polynomials -- Algebraic fractions -- Expressions versus equations versus identities -- Linear equations -- The word problem problem -- Quadratic equations -- Yet more equations -- Simultaneous equations -- Inequalities -- Absolute value -- The cartesian plane -- Distances and midpoints in the plane -- Lines