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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Hot�X | |
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| Faqs: How to Use This Book | |
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| Meet the Variables | |
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| Alge-blah Up Close and Personal with Algebra | |
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| Happy Birthday to Me GCFs and LCMs with Variables | |
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| Listen to Your Gut Factoring with Variables | |
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| Confessional: Are You Boy Crazy? On the Cover | |
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| Meow Mix Rational Expressions: Fractions with Variables in Them | |
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| Eating Pizza in the Dark Adding and Subtracting Fractions with Variables | |
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| Quiz: Are You Bold or Shy? On the Cover | |
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| solving for X | |
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| Your Holiday Shopping List Strategies for Solving for X | |
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| How Picky Are You? Solving Equations with Absolute Value | |
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| Control Freaks, Unite! Solving Inequalities with Absolute Value | |
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| Mood Zapper: Take Control of your Feelings! | |
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| Functions, Graphing, And Systems of Equations | |
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| Can You Keep a Secret? Functions and Relations | |
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| They're Going Steady Equations of Lines, and Graphing Lines and Linear Inequalities | |
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| Mystery Woman Writing Equations for Lines, Including Parallel/ Perpendicular Lines | |
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| Little Miss People Pleaser Solving and Graphing Systems of Linear Equations | |
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| Confessional: Dumbing Ourselves Down�the Sequel! | |
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| Word Problems | |
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| The Guy of Your Dreams Motion Problems: Using r.t = d | |
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| Dip in the Pool, Anyone? Rate of Work Problems | |
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| Savvy Business Chick Word Problems: Percents and Simple Interest | |
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| The Perfect Party Snack Word Problems Involving Mixtures | |
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| Exponents And Square Roots | |
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| Ms. Exponent Gets Her Whip The Product, Power, and Quotient Rules for Exponents | |
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| Keep Your Day Job Negative (and Zero) Exponents | |
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| The Benefits of a Diary Intro to Square Roots and Radical Expressions | |
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| Confessional: How Can I Focus and Avoid Distractions? | |
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| Polynomials | |
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| Chocolates for Breakfast Intro to Polynomials and Adding/Subtracting Them | |
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| A Day at the Hair Salon Multiplying Polynomials and the FOIL, Method | |
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| The Jewelry Dilemma Factoring Trinomials with Reverse FOIL and Grouping | |
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| Boyfriend or "Special" Friend Factoring Special Polynomials | |
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| QuiZ: Are You a Perfectionist? | |
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| Quadratic Equations | |
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| Puppies, Please? Solving Quadratic Equations by Factoring | |
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| The Lemonade Stand Solving Quadratic Equations by Completing the Square | |
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| What You Can Learn at the Mall Using the Quadratic Formula | |
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| A Final Word | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Answer Key | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |