Man, I hate pre-algebra!!
it is so freaking hard!! pardon my french!
LOL but it’s just I’ve never faced this challenge before
has anyone else ever had a prob with it?
I know i’m algebraly-challenged LOL!
Really , I’m in regular algebra ( i got to skip pre-algebra) and it’s not really hard . What
are you having a problem with ? Maybe I can help .
Oh , and it’s okay , i’m athleticaly-challenged . I
stink at sports .
With my Grade A in A-Level Maths, maybe I can
help too. What don’t you understand?
Note: If you don’t understand the underlying principles now, it’s
gonna get worse when you hit proper algebra, for it assumes you understand pre-algebra. If you need help, ask for
it now.
Yea,
cause everything past that uses things from the last levels. I got algebra over wit in 8th grade. Now I’m takin
Calc, and even thought there’s new stuff, I’m still using simple algebra rules and situations at times. Good
Luck 
CarFreak - Trust me, I can’t even get paste the geometry section. Heck, I just
skipped Algebra 1 altogether – pre-algebra was a breeze, but after that? I absolutely
love math; the hard part is figuring it out. 
Perhaps someone on these
boards will be able to assist you? It seems as if gottalovepixar and
RMS Oceanic have already offered to help you out.
Me? I’m a brainless
pedestrian when it comes to mathematics, even though I love the subject – heh.
Me, I do
not like math. Yet, I am just good at it. I have a solid A in my Trigonometry class.
The reason why I like math a little is because I am good at it.
Math through AP Calc
was madly fun and awesome.
Around Linear Algebra I swore I’d never take another math class again. At
least, not from this school’s math department, which is an exercize in massochism. Though truthfully,
multivariable calc would probably be helping me lots in my graphics course. Meh. I got through my math
requirements.
But up through the Calc I level… good times. Good, happy times.
I’m in Algebra II right now and the hardest part about
it is the little things, like not making little mistakes. Argh. They drive me crazy. I find it a little
ridiculous that I understand how to do the problem and the principles behind it yet I make a small adding error
and I get marked off for it. It is rather sad…
I would also like to offer assistance. 
Don’t get
frustrated. Math was always my best non-art subject, but I still occasionally had trouble with some things.
I’d think to myself that I’d never understand them, but if I kept at it, eventually it would click.
~~=oP
I could try to help. I’m good at Math, although I’m not sure if i’m that great a
teacher.
It seems like
a lot of people have already offered their assistance, but I’ll offer my assistance too, anyway. Math is
definitely a great passion of mine. I got 100% in Calculus and 99% in Principles of Math in Grade 12, and I’m
pretty sure I’m doing almost just as well (math-wise) during this first year of my university studies (for those
of you unfamiliar with the curriculum in BC, Canada, where I went to high school, Principles of Math simply
combines all of geometry, combinatorics, statistics and probability, etc.). There’s something about the
properties of numbers and the aesthetics of mathematical proof that absolutely intrigues me…
CountSolo - Well, I don’t blame you, sir. Of the
many numerous postulates and mathematical theorems that I am learned at the moment, I find all of them highly
intriguing/interesting. I lavish in the times when I am required to make my brain “work out” a
difficult problem or circumstance, as easy or as pain-stakingly hard as it may seem.
I only wish I had
your brains when it comes to math, CountSolo…
I wish I had the passion for math period. That way, it
would be so much easier for me.
okay, do
this probalem,
7[5+4(9+6)]
I got it wrong on my test a while back
I like maths, I’m pretty good at it, and I will definitely take it for a-level, but due to my age, I
probably can’t really help out, especially since we haven’t tackled algebra in our additional maths classes
yet. And, even when we do, I still probably won’t be able to help as our teacher has a strange inability to
teach.
But it does seem as though the situation’s gonna be handled pretty well, nonethless, with
all of our mathematicians on the board here. 
Well, you have
to go with order of operations. I got the answer 445. First, you do all problems inside the depest parentheses.
Then go with multiplication/division, finally, addition/subtraction.
CarFreak - Well, my answer added/multiplied up to 945.
I went: 7(5+4(9+6)) = 7 x 5+4 x 9+6
= 9 x 15
= 7 x 135
= [b]945[/b]
However, you’re
probably right, The Star Swordsman. 
You have to
do ones within brackets first. However, since there’s another pair of brackets within the outer pair of
brackets, you’re going to have to do that inner pair first. So…
9+6 = 15
Then, you have to
multiply that by 4…
4(15) = 60
So now, to recap, you have…
7[5 + 60]
Now, you can
solve for 5 + 60…
5 + 60 = 65
Thus…
7[65] = 455
And if you’re wondering why we
do things this way (i.e., brackets first, then division, etc.), these rules are simply definitions. In other
words, some mathematician from the past could have made the rules so that the addition operator (+) has
precedence over division, etc. But these definitions are essential since they give a certain order to the way we
calculate things.
thanks
for the help!
I’m not exactly the brightest bulb on the chrsitmas tree.
Me+pre-algbra= 
or maybe even 
Oh , that’s
pre-algebra ? I learned that in 6th grade . I was thinking more of :
y=6x+7
and if x equaled 2 the
equation would be:
y=6x2+7
and the answer would be 19 .
yeah , like that .
i don’t why
, but equations are fun to me , including order of operations ( what u gave CountSolo ) . I’m such a nerd .
