Overview
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Syllabus
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- Introduction to Math Fundamentals: Explore the foundations of algebra and logic without any rote memorization.
- Reverse Engineering Arithmetic: Find the patterns and you'll be able to solve these puzzles.
- Understanding Math Visually: Algebra was never meant to be memorized. Learn a new way to see.
- Cascading Deductions: Solving these Sudoku-like puzzles will take both algebra and strategy.
- Numerical Reasoning: Find the pattern, then make predictions.
- Take Care Where You Start: Unpack a strategy that you'll use in every problem you encounter.
- Hypothesize Test Adapt: Keep in mind that a hypothesis is NOT just a guess.
- Rewrite Redraw Rethink: These problems aren't about elephants, they're about fractions.
- Wishful Thinking: Meet the Calcdoku. Sudoku pales in comparison.
- Reusable Insights: Building problem-solving skills takes practice – stay on the lookout for useful patterns.
- Logical Reasoning: Logic shows you how to win!
- Systematic Logical Thinking: You can't trust everything you hear, but you'll always have logic.
- Werewolves of London: Werewolves are predictably treacherous creatures. But they make for great puzzles.
- Elimination Cascades: Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains must be the truth.
- Mad Hatter Puzzles: You'll need to keep track of what other people might think you are thinking.
- Repairing Broken Puzzles: These puzzles can't be solved – until you fix them.
- Visually Understanding Algebra: A new way of learning the algebra and identities that you thought you knew.
- Divisibility: You won't believe this visual trick that makes number theory look obvious.
- The Distributive Property: If you replace algebra with geometry, you'll never need to factor again.
- Difference of Squares: This isn't how you learned this identity at school.
- Square Roots: Now there is more than one right answer.
- The Quadratic Formula: You've used it, you've memorized it, now derive it with squares.
- Algebraic Reasoning: Build and practice problem solving strategies with these algebra puzzles.
- Choose Your Numbers Carefully: Algebra is all about maintaining symmetry and balance.
- Algebraic Information: Learn how to track down all the information you need from a problem.
- Rates and Ratios: You'll need to reframe these problems to put the numbers in order.
- Advanced Cryptograms: These puzzles are tough, but you have all the skills you need.
- Number Courtyards: Some of these problems look impossible. They aren't.
- Advanced Design and Optimization: Evaluate and design calcdoku, operator search, and grid fill problems.
- What Comes Next?: Connect the concepts you've learned in this course to new avenues of math and science.
- Logic, Algebra, and Number Theory: You've met the big players, but there's a lot more to come.
- Geometry and Probability: Explore the next steps in your mastery of mathematics.
- Computer Science and Physical Science: Explore the world and apply what you've learned.
