Let's talk Algebra

Let's talk Algebra, is a compedium of mathematical concepts and questions. This book is aiming to be an additional support resource for KS3 teachers who want to expand their subject knowledge beyond the KS3 curriculum, teachers who want to offer their students diverse resources to improve their algebraic exercise solving skills and, not least, for students themselves, who can use this book for individual study, to develop their mathematical and analytical thinking.It is focused on a few key topics in algebra that the author, as a Maths specialist with 12 years of teaching experience, feels are a bit ‘sensitive’, in the sense that many of her pupils found them more difficult to assimilate. Therefore, the book is meant to offer clear definitions and explanations, solved examples and written indications on the steps to follow when solving certain types of problems. All the answers are given at the end and full solving is given for the more complex exercises, so that students can check every step of the process of reaching a certain result.The author is confident that the book will be a real help to all those who will purchase and use it, and she hopes that her own passion for Mathematics will be shared by everyone reading it.Table of contents:Chapter 1: Mathematical identities and conceptsChapter 2: Algebraic expressionsChapter 3: Simplifying algebraic expressionsChapter 4: Rearranging formulasChapter 5: Linear equationsChapter 6: InequalitiesChapter 7: Equation of a straight lineChapter 8: Simultaneous equationsChapter 9: Quadratic equationChapter 10: FunctionsChapter 11: SequencesAnswers, indications, and solving