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Purplemath
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Purplemath is a free algebra lessons website. The author, Elizabeth Stapel, always had trouble with math; her lessons show the methods that finally worked for her. Purplemath is where you go when the book and the instructor aren't making any sense.
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Why learn math? So that you don't lose out on something you love! 💜

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True story! (Well, actually, they took Hippasus out on a lake, where he had "a boating accident".)

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What is maths?

Maths is a subject where you can clearly see that it's a triangle, but still you have to prove it.

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My cat agrees. Loudly. All day. *sigh*

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"Every student can learn mathematics, but not on the same day or in the same way."

-- George Evans

#learningmath #mathematics
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...because the absolute value is, technically, the square root of the square....

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Look at the vertical scale. The numbers may ne perfectly represent the numbers, but this presentation is extremely misleading.

#misleading #axis #scale