Wikijunior:Introduction to Mathematics
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[edit] Introduction
This Wikijunior book is designed to teach you, in less than a year, all of the mathematics you need to go to college.
Today, I was eating brunch in a restaurant, and I overheard the mother at the next table talking to her young son, a child of about three. She was coaching him in his numbers and alphabet. It was heartwarming.
Not everyone has the good fortune to be taught their numbers and letters before entering kindergarten, but everyone can learn to do math well.
This book begins at the beginning. It assumes you know how to read, nothing else. (If you have trouble reading this, you need to learn reading first, but you can work on math, too, if you have someone to read to you.)
The book is organized in a series of short lessons. Each lesson starts by saying what it is designed to teach. If you already know what that lesson is designed to teach, skip to the next lesson. Do not skip any lesson you are not absolutely certain you know. Every lesson builds on what has gone before.
