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Write of what parts of the text were the most difficult to read, and to identify how many times a passage was read before some understanding was achieved.

This book was certainly one of the more difficult books I have ever read in any scenario ever. To expand upon, it was mostly due to the fact that I, at the time, was completely unfamiliar with the subject of politics. Thus leading into my first point, I did enjoy this book because I was able to learn new aspects of our world. Even more so, I was able to apply them to the real world in this upcoming presidential election. Of course with the good comes the bad, I was simply overwhelmed with information that the book did come off as confusing at many parts. Not to mention the excessive amounts of examples in history that each theme has occurred, did anger me a little bit.

He asks the question “Why do I need college algebra?”(Adams 19). I can relate to this as many of us in today's society are in college and we look at our degree requirements and think “Why do I have to take this class” to ourselves. In Adams case he only has “the benefit of a ninth grade education.”(Adams 18). It is clear that he needs algebra, but he tries to exempt himself from this requirement. He contacts friends that are attorneys and they say that there are no courses in his profession that even require algebra or more specifically, college algebra (20).

The “Accelerated Algebra Issue” has been leaving educators and parents over some difficult questions. When should formal algebra be taught? Who should be taking Accelerated Algebra 1/Geometry or any accelerated mathematics course in middle school or in high school? How should algebra be presented and in what form? How should student placement be determined?

Personally I thought this chapter was a headache. I constantly had to read a page and then reread it. A lot of this information I have head from previous psychology classes, but just reading it was harder to understand rather than having an instructor teach it. I pretty much highlighted the whole book because I thought it was all-important.

(c) The book at times was difficult to read purely on the fact that some of the

* Do a first reading that uses underlining, annotation, and summary to make sure you understand what the writer is saying. Go back to any sections that need clarification.

Algebra I is a class taken by 9th and 10th grade students as a requirement towards graduation. Because the depth of knowledge required for the course, some of the9th grade students may be required to take Foundations of Algebra in order to acquire some of the necessary skills needed to master the objectives in Algebra I. therefore by the end of their sophomore year, all students will have taken Algebra I.

The two ways that enhanced my experience of taking this class are learning to get all the facts of

The main point of this piece was about whether or not an Arizona State University student, Gordon Adams, needed to take the required college algebra courses in order to graduate before attending ASU College of Law. Adams desperately wanted to enter the law school in the Fall of 1993, however, he was required by the school to take two college algebra math courses before graduating. If he was to take those classes he would have missed the opportunity to attend law school in the Fall of 1993 and would instead have to wait until the following year.

I was a junior at Brentwood High School, who arrived to the United states from Peru a couple of months ago, and after complaining for three months, Christine Burrows, my guidance counselor, decided to change my Algebra class by a “higher” level math.

Already I can tell that this book is more difficult than most other novels I have read. It seems as though Roth is in favor of using long sentences and complex vocabulary. I sometimes had to reread sentences a few times because there was difficult vocabulary I needed to look up and the sentences were long. I needed to read each sentence piece by piece to make sure I could understand what the author wanted to convey to the reader. Although the text seemed overwhelming when I read the first few pages; once I began reading sentences in increments I could more easily understand the text.

Algebra is a critical aspect of mathematics which provides the means to calculate unknown values. According to Bednarz, Kieran and Lee (as cited in Chick & Harris, 2007), there are three basic concepts of simple algebra: the generalisation of patterns, the understanding of numerical laws and functional situations. The understanding of these concepts by children will have an enormous bearing on their future mathematical capacity. However, conveying these algebraic concepts to children can be difficult due to the abstract symbolic nature of the math that will initially be foreign to the children. Furthermore, each child’s ability to recall learned numerical laws is vital to their proficiency in problem solving and mathematical confidence. It is obvious that teaching algebra is not a simple task. Therefore, the importance of quality early exposure to fundamental algebraic concepts is of significant importance to allow all

I read a squashed version in order to prepare myself for the actual work, and then I took on the entire work, all 156 paragraphs of it. I was not exactly certain as to where ten pages were so I decided to just read until the

the book is the part that's always the hardest for me to read. The tone of the middle part is incredibly