High School Math Tips & Tricks

Developing one’s own special toolkit of math skills gives students more insight and enthusiasm for a subject that is often frightening and intimidating. After all, if you’re scared of math, you are less likely to excel. And it doesn’t take much – there are 13 skills demonstrated here and they are so commonly used in the high school math curriculum that you’ll find yourself using them frequently. From this may come more you’ll discover on your own. Learning is really just a discovery process!

TABLE OF CONTENTS:
[1] Divide and Conquer
[2] Pythagorean Triplets
[3] More on Pythagorean calculations, Divide and Conquer Part II
[4] Take Advantage of our Base Ten Number System
[5] The Easiest Way to Compute Percent Increases and Decreases
[6] Factoring Trinomials ax² + bx + c
[7] Cheat Sheet of Geometry Area Formulae
[8] Cheat Sheet of Geometry Surface Area and Volume Formulae
[9] Simpler Radical Arithmetic
[10] Cleaning up Complex Fractions
[11] Simplifying √(n&x) roots
[12] Proportion Action
[13] The Top Secret Way to Use the Slope formula, a.k.a. The Malone Method