Posted by alexandra_k on April 28, 2014, at 20:38:28
In reply to Re: going ahead, posted by baseball55 on April 28, 2014, at 19:53:01
> Also 1/8 = 0.125. So 100/8 = 12.5, 1000/8=125 and so on. Once you get the 1/2 to 1/10 decimal equivalents down, the rest are just multiples. Except of course for prime numbers over 10. But most people use calculators for, say, 1/13 or 1/17.
wow. thanks so very much. that is really helpful.
learning my rules for adding / subtracting / multiplying / dividing positive and negative numbers today...
variations on M m n... triangles here we come... then crossing out the redundancies to get the units... she's a bit of a sickler for us getting the units right (g vs mol vs g/mol-1)... because she says that's how we demonstrate understanding...
a bit of work to be sure... but seems... manageable.
i'm really not sure... no... i'm really sure that i'm not... going to be ready for functioning in math at the start of semester 2. maybe i'll hold off... focus on conceptual physics (which has math in it even if not calculus) and either animal or plant bio (feeling enthusiastic about plants at the moment)... then i'll have a couple months between the end of the second semester and the start of summer school to really crank through that website... maybe that is a better way to go...
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