Primary sources – are firsthand records of events, theories, opinions or actions come in the form of unpublished documents recordings or artifacts they must be contemporary with the events, people or information that is at issue. Anything written hundreds of years after an event occurred is not a primary source.
Facts are information based on real provable events or situations
Opinions are beliefs based on personal judgments rather than on indisputable facts
Bias are opinions or beliefs that affect a persons ability to make fair,unclouded, judgments or decisions
Stereotypes are oversimplified opinions that do not account for individual differences about an entire group of people or things.
Characteristics of different passage types
Narrative – text tells a story or relates a chain of events
Expository –passage introduces or explains a subject gives groundwork information that is necessary for understanding later ideas or analyzes information objectively
Technical writing passes along precise information usually about a specific topic usually in a formal or semiformal style
Persuasive writing tries to get the reader to agree with the author
Writing purpose
Inform the reader about some fact or event; newspaper articles often fall into this category
Persuade the reader to a particular viewpoint; this sort of writing is often called persuasive writing (advertisement)
Entertain the reader; for example,most fiction novels serve the purpose of entertainment.
Express feelings a large amount of poetry is concerned with evoking a feeling or emotion in the reader.
Text structure
Sequence – ideas as bulleted or numbered list
Problem-solution structure might be illustrated by presenting the problem in one paragraph and the solution in another
Compare and contrast – present two different cases with the intent of making the reader consider the differences or similarities between the two cases
Cause and effect- presents an action first and then describes the effects that result or may result from the action
Description- tend to describe or characterize a person place or thing s
Text features usually do one or more of the following things add meaning change meaning or add clarity
Mathematics
Order of operations –PEMDAS - PARAENTHESIS ,EXPONENTS, MULTIPLICATION DIVISION, ADDITION,SUBTRACTION.
START FROM LEFT TO RIGHT
FIIRST PERFORM OPERATIONS IN PARENTHESIS. WORK ON THE INTERMOST SET OF PARENTHESIS THEN WORK OUTWARDS
ADDITIONA AND SUBTRACTION OF FRACTIONS OR MIXED NUMBERS WITH UNLIKE DENOMINATORS
1. CONVERT ANY MIXED NUMBER INTO IMPROPER FRACTION
2. DETERMINE THE LEAST COMMON DENOMINATOR OF THE FRACTIONS
3. ADD OR SUBTRACT THE NUMERATORS WHILE KEEPING THE DENOMINATORS THE SAME
4. SIMPLIFY IF POSSIBLE
DIVISION AND MULTILICATION OF FRACTIONS
TO MULTIPLY FRACTIONS
1. CONVERT ANY MIXED NUMBERS INTO IMPROPER FRACTIONS
2. SIMPLIFY OR REDUCE FRACTIONS IN THE NUMERATOR WITH THE FACTORS IN THE DENOMINATOR
3. MULTIPLY THE NUMERATORS WITH NUMERATOR AND DENOMINATOR WITH DENOMINATOR
4. CHECK TO MAKE SURE THE FRACTION IS SIMPLIFIED
TO DIVIDE FRACTION
1. CONERT ANY MIXED NUMBERS INTO IMPROPER FRACTIONS
2. CHANGE THE DIVISION SIGN TO MULTIPLICATION
3. FLIP THE SECOND FRACTION
4. SIMPLIFY OR REDUCE FRACTION
5. MULTIPLY NUMERATORS TOGETHER AND DENOMINATORS TOGETHER
6. CHECK TO MAKE SURE IT IS IN SIMPLE FORM
DECIMAL PLACEMENT IN A PRODUCT OR QUOTIENT
MULTIPLY THE NUMBERS WITHOUT PAYING ATTENTION TO THE DECIMAL POINT ONCE MULITPLICATION IS COMPLETE COUT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DECIMAL PLACES IN THE FACTORS THE PUT THE DECIMAL IN THE RIGHT SPOT
DIVIDING DECIMALS- MOVE THE DECIMAL POINT IN WHICH THE DIVISOR IS A WHOLE NUMBER BY MOVING THE DECIMAL OINT IN THE DIVIDEND
SOLUTIONS OF PERCENTS OF MEANS MULTIPLY
IS MEANS EQUALS
% MEANS PER 100
CHANGE DECIMAL TO % - MOVE THE DECIMAL TO THE RIGHT ALWAYS 2 PLACES!!!
TO CHANGE PERCENTS TO