Essential Algebra Review!

[nacho]

I thought this may be of some help to you guys:
http://www.stewartcalculus.com/data/CALCULUS%207E%20Early%20Transcendentals/upfiles/6et_reviewofalgebra.pdf
http://www.stewartcalculus.com/data/CALCULUS%207E%20Early%20Transcendentals/upfiles/6et_reviewofanalgeom.pdf

VCAA made it pretty clear with last year's exam 1 that you should know basic algebra.
good to touch up on these fundamentals IMHO

[Somye]

cheers nacho, nice resource

[pi]

Gotta love Stewart

[TommyLie]

Thanks, that's awesome!

[Ravit]

thanks nachooo

[TrueTears]

I'd post up the link for the entire book here, but then a few certain admins would threaten to ban me

[Phy124]

I didn't even realise circles were on the methods course, I don't recall learning them in class. Then again, if they were learnt in year 11 then there would be various reasons why...

[pi]

I didn't even realise circles were on the methods course, I don't recall learning them in class. Then again, if they were learnt in year 11 then there would be various reasons why...

I'm pretty sure they're not on the Methods course

[Hutchoo]

I didn't even realise circles were on the methods course, I don't recall learning them in class. Then again, if they were learnt in year 11 then there would be various reasons why...

I'm pretty sure they're not on the Methods course

I've seen them a few times in the essentials textbook for methods. They were all MC questions though, meaning you could use your calculator.

[Kanon]

Thank you kind sir!

[TommyLie]

I'm pretty sure they're not on the Methods course

We did them in Methods 1+2 last year. Learn't the general equations of them and how to translate them. We used MQ 1+2 text book.

[b^3]

I didn't think they were either but
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vce/studies/mathematics/mathsstd.pdf pg 66, 68, 69

This area of study will include:

- determination of rules of simple functions and relations from given information, including
polynomial functions to degree 4 and of transformations (dilation, reflection and translation) of
the square root and circle relations

Key Knowledge

- equations of circles at the origin and translations of these

Key Skills

• draw graphs of polynomial functions to degree 4 (approximate location of stationary points only
for cubic and quartic functions), power functions and circles of a given centre and radius;

BUT..... that is in units 1 & 2, there is no hits for "circle" using ctrl+f in the 3/4 methods part of the study design, so it looks like its just Methods 1/2 (....and spesh)

[paulsterio]

You can always argue about the study design, but does it really hurt to know that:



is a circle with the centre at with radius ?

Probably doesn't hurt to know that, so my advice is just to know it, you never know when it might be required on an exam, you might be given a circle as part of a modelling task or something like that.