Algebra 1 ©2006 ` Paul Foerster ~ Pearson Prentice Hall
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Expressions and Equations
Chapter 2: Operations with Negative Numbers
Chapter 3: Distributing: Axioms and Other Properties
Chapter 4: Harder Equations
Chapter 5: Some Operations with Polynomials and Radicals
Chapter 6: Quadratic Equations
Chapter 7: Expressions and Equations Containing Two Variables
Chapter 8: Linear Functions, Scattered Data, and Probability
Chapter 9: Properties of Exponents
Chapter 10: More Operations with Polynomials
Chapter 11: Rational Algebraic Expressions
Chapter 12: Radical Algebraic Expressions
Chapter 13 Inequalities
Chapter 14: Functions and Advanced Topics
ON PAUL’S CLASSROOM WALL (CPA Zen adds up)
` Math is words put into numbers.
` You can’t afford to use up all your creative energy on tasks that should be routine.
` Use junk time wisely.
` If you can pronounce it you have power over it.
` Don’t make hard problems out of easy problems.
` If you have come late at least come panting.
TRANSFORMATIONS
` Stop and think: there is a reason we were each endowed with thoughtfulness, what do you think that reason could be?
` Something will happen, beyond all doubt, if you write out the next obvious line.
` Problem solving involves the display of doubt, not erasing mistakes.
` Each problem comes in the door as a sentence.
SEQUENCES SERIES PERMUTATIONS, et al (..seriously but not too seriously)
• “ Profound happiness, unlike fleeting pleasures, is spiritual in nature. It depends on the happiness of others and it is based on love and affection. “ Dalai Lama
• “Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.” ~ Albert Einstein
