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Chapter 10
10.1 1
For a lesson discussing terms, variables, and coefficients, try link:
10.1 2
For a slightly different version, point your browser to:
10.1 3
For a definition of the distributive law with two examples, try link:
10.1 4
What does the distributive law mean and how does it relate to the order of operations? For an answer to those two questions, visit link:
10.1 5
For a good lesson in factoring, try link:
10.1 6
For a basic understanding of the “like terms” concept, go to link:
10.1 7
For a quick review of the concept, try link:
10.1 8
For an interactive lesson, see link:
10.1 9
For a good lesson on how to remove parentheses, visit link:
10.1 10
For a discussion of removing parentheses, including a review of adding and subtracting like terms, go to link:
10.1 11
For a lesson that includes removing parentheses preceded by a minus sign, point your browser to link:
10.1 12
For good examples, illustrating how to evaluate expressions, turn to link:
10.2 1
For a lesson dealing with exponents, try link:
10.2 2
For a lesson that contains the concept of negative exponents, visit link:
10.2 3
For a good lesson covering negative exponents, visit link:
10.2 4
For another lesson with practice problems and answers, try link:
10.2 5
For a colorful lesson dealing with negative exponents and containing many illustrations, visit link:
http://faculty.stcc.edu/zee/newpage91.htm
10.2 6
For a well laid out lesson illustrating the first law of exponents, point your browser to link:
10.2 7
For a lesson about multiplying powers, go to:
10.2 8
For a very good review of exponents and coverage of the second law of exponents, try link:
10.2 9
For another lesson covering the second law of exponents, visit link:
10.2 10
To see the first and second laws of exponents with examples and a summary, point your browser to link:
10.2 11
For a tutorial on raising a base to two exponents, try link:
10.2 12
For an explanation of all three laws of exponents and how to apply them, visit link:
10.2 13
For practice with the first and third laws of exponents, go to link:
10.3 1
For a procedure for writing numbers in scientific notation, with a review of exponents, try link:
10.3 2
For a definition of when a number is in scientific notation, illustrated with several examples, visit link:
http://www.nyu.edu/pages/mathmol/textbook/scinot.html
10.3 3
For a well illustrated physics lesson on how to change from and to scientific notation, point your browser to link:
10.3 4
If you want an online calculator to do the conversions for you (we prefer that you use it just for checking your answers), go to link:
10.3 5
For a colorful lesson dealing with multiplication and division of numbers written in scientific notation, try link:
10.3 6
If you want to practice with the material (with answers provided), then see link:
10.3 7
For a complete lesson covering scientific notation, go to link:
10.4 1
To learn how to translate from English to algebra, visit link:
10.4 2
To see examples of how to translate words into equations, continue link:
10.4 3
For a colorful lesson on solving equations, visit link:
10.4 4
To practice solving equations, point your browser to link:
10.4 5
To solve equations using the principles we have stated, try link:
10.4 6
For a complete lesson on how to solve equations, see link:
10.4 7
For a procedure similar to this one, try link:
10.5 1
If you want to read about problem solving, there is a website devoted almost exclusively to this topic. Just access link:
http://www.hawaii.edu/suremath/why1.html
10.5 2
To see another site that shows you how to solve word problems, try link:
http://academic.cuesta.edu/acasupp/as/706.htm
10.5 3
For a quick lesson on how to translate from words to math symbols, visit link:
10.5 4
To study some more interest problems, point your browser to link:
10.5 5
For an excellent website on how to translate and solve word problems, visit link:
10.5 6
For another site that deals with translating words into algebra, try link: