Mathematics

We currently divide Mathematics into the following areas, with plans to add more...

• General Math

• Algebra

• Geometry

• Trigonometry

• Calculus

• Linear Algebra

• Abstract Algebra

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General Math

For us, General Math includes everything that you study between Grade 1 and Grade 8.  This is complicated by the fact that you probably will be introduced to topics we put in higher categories because they are discussed in those categories in further detail.  For example, you learn to add counting numbers in Grade 1, yet in Algebra there is a chapter (or chapters) about Addition.  Trying thinking of it like this--the first time around they put you behind the wheel and the second time around they popped open the hood and said "Let's talk about how all this stuff works."

From General Math you should be comfortable with the addition and multiplication of Integers and Fractions.  You should also be comfortable working with Decimal Numbers.  If they taught you about Rational Numbers, great!

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Algebra

Algebra is where take the math you learned when working with numbers and you switch over to using it with symbols, usually lower case latin letters like a,b,c or x,y,z.  Quite a bit of time is spend studying equations, both of the techniques of things you can do to both sides of an equation and it will remain an equation, and examples of famous equations that you should consider to be tools in your toolbox.

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Geometry

Geometry begins as the study of objects such as lines, rays, line segments and angles.  You learn to do things with a straight edge and a compass, like bissecting a line segment or bissecting an angle.

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more coming...

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