Math Advice

[Buckeyes_Doc]

So I've not taken a math class since my junior year of high school. I've yet to take math in college and have been avoiding it (only go to college part-time, not currently though, due to military) but I want to pursue a degree in accounting or something in the financial sector. I want to freshen up on my math skills before I attend college again and seriously start pursuing a degree. Does anyone know of any books or website I can check out to study on my own? Looking for algebra maybe calculus, don't really know..

I've always been pretty average in math, but I think I just didn't care in high school so I'm ready to get back in to it and refresh and improve my math knowledge.

Thanks for any help..

[tc23]

I've been using these two sites to get me ready for Calculus this spring.

http://cow.math.temple.edu/~cow/cgi-bin/manager

http://education-portal.com/articles...es_Online.html

Hope that helps

[Cebby]

This was a pretty common theme in my graduate program. Outside of the 20 international students, there was only about 10-15% of my class who had completed calculus at a high level. While I was in the percentage of the class who had taken legit math, this was the ISBN that was recommended to us:

0-07-305192-6

It's cheap on Amazon, and while it's for calculus, as I understand it it's applied calculus which should be useful for anyone going into accounting or finance.

[Buckeyes_Doc]

Thanks for the help, I'll check out both of your suggestions.

[eDotd]

I used these along with the assigned text when I took Calc I a couple semesters ago.

http://www.khanacademy.org/
http://www.youtube.com/user/patrickjmt?blend=1&ob=4
http://patrickjmt.mindbites.com/

[HealyMonster]

I went back to college 2 years ago, it had been like 10 years since I took a math class. I studied and took the placement test and was able to skip Algebra(Thank God) and I took a course called Number systems. It was easy. Very easy. That was at a CC, I go to Rider now and its called Finite Math I believe at this school. It fulfilled my Math requirement for my Bachelors so I lucked out. I would recommend taking it if you can.

My personal preference also is to take match classes in the Summer. I have no legitament stats or anything to back it up, but 4 weeks of Math is better than 3.5 months imho.

good luck!

[Sublime12089]

Quote: Originally Posted by RiderGH

I went back to college 2 years ago, it had been like 10 years since I took a math class. I studied and took the placement test and was able to skip Algebra(Thank God) and I took a course called Number systems. It was easy. Very easy. That was at a CC, I go to Rider now and its called Finite Math I believe at this school. It fulfilled my Math requirement for my Bachelors so I lucked out. I would recommend taking it if you can. My personal preference also is to take match classes in the Summer. I have no legitament stats or anything to back it up, but 4 weeks of Math is better than 3.5 months imho. good luck!

Yea, Finite is usually a basic math credit for non-math related majors, unfortunately OP will have to take much harder math for accounting. In the Spring 2011 schedule thread, there was a guy who I think said he was a senior financing major... maybe send him a PM?