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Résumé :
P.O.W.E.R. learning: Prepare, Organize, Work, Evaluate, and Rethink....

Biographie:
Sherri Messersmith has been teaching at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, since 1994. She has over 25 years of experience teaching many different courses from developmental mathematics through calculus. She earned a bachelor of science degree in the teaching of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and went on to teach at the high level for two years. Sherri returned to UIUC and earned a master of science in applied mathematics and stayed on at the university to teach and coordinate large sections of undergraduate math courses. Sherri has authored several textbook, and she has also appeared in videos accompanying several McGraw-Hill texts. Sherri lives outside of Chicago with her husband, Phil, and their daughters, Alex and Cailen. In her precious free time, she likes to read, play the guitar, and travel -- the manuscripts for this and her previous books have accompanied her from Spain to Greece and many points in between....

Sommaire:

Prealgebra with P.O.W.E.R. Learning, 2nd Edition

Study Strategies: An Introduction to the P.O.W.E.R. Framework

Section 1.1Place Value and Rounding

Section 1.2Introduction to Integers

Section 1.3Adding Integers

Section 1.4Subtracting Integers

Section 1.5Estimating a Sum or Difference

Section 1.6Multiplying Integers and Estimation

Section 1.7Dividing Integers and Estimation

Putting It All Together

Section 1.8Exponents, Roots, and Order of Operations

Group Activity

emPOWERme: Who's in Charge?

Chapter 1 Summary

Chapter 1 Review

Chapter 1 Test

Study Strategies: Strategies for Reading Math (and other) Textbooks

Section 2.1Introduction to Algebra

Section 2.2Simplifying Expressions

Section 2.3Solving Linear Equations Part I

Section 2.4Solving Linear Equations Part II

Section 2.5Solving Linear Equations Part III

Section 2.6Solve Applied Problems Involving One Unknown

Section 2.7Solve Applied Problems Involving Two Unknowns

Group Activity

emPOWERme: Discover Your Reading Attention Span

Chapter Summary

Chapter 2 Review

Chapter 2 Test

Cumulative Review for Chapters 1-2

Study Strategies: Time Management

Section 3.1Introduction to Signed Fractions

Section 3.2Writing Fractions in Lowest Terms

Section 3.3Multiplying and Dividing Signed Fractions

Section 3.4Adding and Subtracting Like Fractions and Finding a Least Common Denominator

Section 3.5Adding and Subtracting Unlike Fractions

Section 3.6Operations with Mixed Numbers

Putting It All Together

Section 3.7Order Relations and Order of Operations

Section 3.8Solving Equations Containing Fractions

Group Activity

emPOWERme: Find Your Procrastination Quotient

Chapter Summary

Chapter 3 Review

Chapter 3 Test

Cumulative Review for Chapters 1-3

Study Strategies: Taking Notes in Class

Section 4.1 Introduction to Geometry

Section 4.2Rectangles, Squares, Parallelograms, and Trapezoids

Section 4.3Triangles

Section 4.4Volume and Surface Area

Putting It All Together

Section 4.5Solving Geometry Applications Using Algebra

Group Activity

emPOWERme: Active Listening

Chapter Summary

Chapter 4 Review

Chapter 4 Test

Cumulative Review for Chapters 1-4

Study Strategies: Taking Math Tests

Section 5.1Reading and Writing Decimals

Section 5.2Rounding Decimals

Section 5.3Adding and Subtracting Signed Decimals

Section 5.4Multiplying Signed Decimals

Section 5.5Dividing Signed Decimals and Order of Operations

Putting It All Together

Section 5.6Writing Fractions as Decimals

Section 5.7Mean, Median, and Mode

Section 5.8Solving Equations Containing Decimals

Section 5.9Square Roots and the Pythagorean Theorem

Section 5.10Circles, Spheres, Cylinders, and Cones

Group Activity

emPOWERme: Is Anxiety the Hardest Problem on the Test?

Chapter Summary

Chapter 5 Review

Chapter 5 Test

Cumulative Review for Chapters 1-5

Study Strategies: Doing Math Homework

Section 6.1Ratios

Section 6.2Rates

Section 6.3Proporti...