Both arithmetic and algebraic ways of writing and figuring are better written and seen than voiced or spoken aloud. Talking about the three key skills provides words to describe this situation and why it is tolerated. The next three chapters Three Skills For Algebra , Talking about Numbers and Quantities , and Describing and Changing Calculations offer pathways to the algebraic way of writing and thinking. The discussion of the three skills shows there is more to mathematics than just doing arithmetic carefully. The discussion in the next three chapters may help you directly or give you words you did not have before to introduce math after arithmetic's to others.
Shorthand offers reasons and motivations for the algebraic way of writing.
Then the long chapter Shorthand Usage Guide describes how shorthand notation can be used and gives flexible directions or rules for the use and invention of shorthand. All trademarks and copyrights on this page are owned by their respective owners. Copyright to comments contributions are owned by the Poster. The Rest 1995-2000 by site author Alan Selby.