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It's 2 a.m. and you're stuck. You have forgotten how to "complete the square", which you need to complete a calculus question or an algebra question or a statistics question. Your text gives lots of examples but none of them review the technique for completing the square. Here comes The Mathematics Survival Kit - Maple Edition to the rescue! First, find the page you need in the Survival Kit. Start with the quick 5 to 10 minute concise and friendly review, then solve some problems to make sure you've got it right. Now you are ready to continue with your homework. The Mathematics Survival Kit contains 115 popular topics. Using high school course outlines, standard first year university calculus and algebra curricula, and the author's thirty years of teaching experience, it covers a list of topics from early high school to university that typically plague students. Like completing the square, factoring cubics, or those annoying log properties. Each topic is covered in a single lesson, consisting of: A quick review of the topic A first very straightforward example A second example illustrating a common variation TWO FOR YOU: two questions to try, with automatic marking, hints and answers MORE TO EXPLORE: up to hundreds of randomly generated questions, to reinforce the techniques, all with automatic marking, hints and answers Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge "All anybody has to do is spend ten minutes with the Math Survival Kit e-book. Ten minutes. It will prove to you its usefulness. It covers such a wide variety of problems, tackling each in a creative and interesting way, that students in high school and university alike will surely find it to be a huge help." - M. Demers, Graduate student Features Over 100 topics. See the full table of contents. Randomly-generated problems for each topic, so you can practice until you feel confident Free-form entry of responses and instant feedback at the click of a button Hints available for every question Illustrative graphs, including dynamically generated plots based on the random problems and your responses Simple, clear explanations and examples Each topic covers a very specific concept, allowing you to learn just the piece you are stuck on, without having to read earlier sections Based on the popular The Mathematics Survival Kit , also written by Jack Weiner and published by Thomson Nelson, a division of The Thomson Corporation. Bonus: Includes advice from an award-winning math teacher on how to get an A in math and how to ask for help in math View System Requirements "Logs cause headaches. I have to admit it. Students find logs hard. Why? I think in part it's because of the word "log". It seems to have no connection with what it represents in math. Then again, students seem to find exponents easy. So when you see "log", think, even read, say out loud, "FIND THE EXPONENT!" - From The Mathematics Survival Kit, copyright 2004, with permission of Thomson Nelson, a division of The Thomson Corporation. About the Author Jack Weiner is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Guelph, in Guelph, Ontario (Canada). He has over 30 years of experience teaching mathematics, including 5 years of teaching at the high school level. He has won both the University of Guelph's Professorial Teaching Award and the prestigious Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations Teaching Award. In an annual Canada-wide university survey conducted by Maclean's magazine, he has been listed as a "Popular Professor" eight years out of nine. Jack has been using Maple for teaching, writing and recreation for over 10 years. Video Interview with the author, Prof. Jack Weiner Introduction to The Mathematics Survival Kit Who is this book for? Hear the whole podcast interview   Nelson is part of the Thomson Learning family of companies dedicated to providing innovative approaches to lifelong learning. Visit Nelson online at: www.nelson.com For your learning solutions: www.thomsonlearning.com

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