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Old 12-07-2011, 04:45 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Hello, guys!

I want to learn maths, but I'll have to start from scratch since I didn't do anything in math classes since like grade 7th. I want to get some books who would allow me to build a solid foundation of basic skills and then move to something more sophisticated. Maybe any of you know good books to get me started?

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Old 12-07-2011, 04:49 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Just to let you know to which level I'd like to improve my math skills at the moment is to SAT Math section and SAT Math subject test perfect score, so that would be slightly beyond the requirements of SATs

P.S. I'm looking for something more basic than SAT preparation books, since I have a lot of holes in my math knowledge and aim to learn everything from scratch. Just imagine that my math skills are somewhere 4th grade
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Old 12-07-2011, 05:10 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Try this guy:
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That site looks awesome, thank you!
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Try this guy:
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This site is absolutely brilliant!!!! Thanks so much for posting that, man.
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I was in a simliar place about a year ago. Got the sudden urge to learn math...

My approach was to download the syllabuses for different grades and work through them. I'd just search the lessons on the internet and learn that way.

A plan that fell through was to get a few textbooks and work at it that way. The internet is just too handy though, and it never happened.

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Old 12-09-2011, 05:11 PM   #7 (permalink)
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I was in a simliar place about a year ago. Got the sudden urge to learn math...

My approach was to download the syllabuses for different grades and work through them. I'd just search the lessons on the internet and learn that way.

A plan that fell through was to get a few textbooks and work at it that way. The internet is just too handy though, and it never happened.

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Just out of curiosity, where do you download school books for different grades???
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Old 12-09-2011, 05:13 PM   #8 (permalink)
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I was just downloading the syllabus, which is basically the plan. You can just run searches in Google. I think I searched for ones specific to my province.
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It might not learn you everything from scratch, but I found this book very useful:
Secrets of Mental Math, by Michael Shermer & Arthur Benjamin.

They use tricks to make math more easy. They'll learn you how to do difficult calculations without having to write them down.
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Old 12-13-2011, 07:28 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Awesome, guys, thank you!
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I came here to post Khan Academy. I love that site so much, try the History videos as well, the French Revolution ones are fantastic.
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