About the Author
Professor Jack Weiner taught at the University of Guelph from 1974 to 1976. He spent the next five years at Parkside High School in Dundas, Ontario. In 1982, he was re-recruited by Guelph and taught there till his retirement in 2011. The winner of many teaching awards, Jack is particularly gratified to have been the University of Guelph Central Student Association Teacher of the Year In 2007. For nine years in its annual University Issue, Macleans had a "popular prof" section. Jack was on the list eight years out of nine!
It's 2 a.m. and you are 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 or ... Your text gives lots of examples but none of them review the completing the square technique.
Here comes The Mathematics Survival Kit (3rd Ed.) to the rescue! Find the page you need in the Survival Kit. A quick 5 to 10 minute concise and friendly review gives you exactly what you need to continue with your homework
Features
Follow these steps to an "A" in your mathematics classes:
- 172 key topics from grade 8 to first year calculus and algebra.
- Concise and friendly reviews of each topic providing students exactly what they need to bring them up to speed.
- Each topic is covered in one page, consisting of an introductory sentence or two, a first, very straightforward example, a second example illustrating a common variation, plus 2 extra questions with answers to reinforce the techniques.
Copyright 2014, Professor Jack Weiner