Today's soundtrack is Waylon Jennings: Good Hearted Woman. I'm on to chapter 8, which covers factors and multiples. Factors: Two factors are multiplied to equal a product. 5 is a factor of 20. If your larger number can divide by the smaller number with no remainder, the smaller number is a factor of the larger … Continue reading 02.25.2018: One Chapter of Math

Today's soundtrack is Saor: Aura. I absolutely adore this atmospheric Celtic black metal album in its entirety. I'm now on chapter 7 of Basic Math and Pre-Algebra for Dummies, which is titled "Divisibility." This chapter discusses finding out whether a number can be divided by another without a remainder, prime numbers, and composite numbers. Divisibility … Continue reading 02.24.2018: One Chapter of Math

Today's soundtrack is Dream Theater: A Dramatic Turn of Events. I'm on to chapter six of Basic Math & Pre-Algebra for Dummies. This chapter covers word problems. The chapter teaches how to turn complex statements into word equations by using words as placeholders for unknown values. This chapter was pretty straightforward.

Today's soundtrack is Adrenaline Mob: Omertà. I'm continuing in Basic Math & Pre-Algebra for Dummies. I'm now on chapter 5, "Evaluating Arithmetic Expressions." An equation is a series of numbers and symbols that gives you a problem and a solution (1+1=2); it tells you that two things are equal. An expression is the two or … Continue reading 02.16.2018: One Chapter of Math

Today's soundtrack: Elder Scrolls IV Original Soundtrack. Chapter 4 was the largest yet, dealing with quite a few new concepts: - Inverse operations (an operation that undoes an equation) - dividing undoes multiplication, subtracting undoes addition, etc. - Commutative operations (switching number order in an equation without changing result). Addition and multiplication are both commutative. … Continue reading 02.06.2018: One Chapter of Math

Today's sountrack is Rihanna: ANTI. I'm on chapter three of "Basic Math and Pre-Algebra for Dummies." This chapter deals with the "big four" of mathematics: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. It's a review chapter before getting deeper into concepts. The review of long division was helpful.