Free maths E-Books

If you need a maths qualification to improve your CV or boost your confidence, our internationally recognised maths EBC WORKBOOKS  are a great way to improve maths skills in a practical way.

Student's Guide

The main project materials are the Workbooks which are subdivided into manageable sections. As far as possible, each Section is designed to be a self-contained piece of work that can be attempted by the student in a few hours. In general, a whole Workbook typically represents 2 to 3 weeks’ work. Each Workbook Section begins with statements of per-requisites and the desired learning outcomes. The Workbooks includes: (a) worked examples; (b) tasks for students to undertake with space for students to attempt the questions, and, often, intermediate results provided to guide them through problems in stages; and (c) exercises where normally only the answer is given.

Nomenclature used for problems

• Examples are problems with fully worked solutions. • Engineering Examples (found in most Mathematics Workbooks but not the Statistics Workbooks) and problems with an engineering context having fully worked solutions. • Tasks are problems with spaces for the student’s working. followed by fully worked solutions. Many Tasks are often broken up into stages with the answer to a stage given before the next stage is reached. • Exercises are problems for the student to do without spaces • Exercises are problems for the student to do without spaces provided for the student’s working. Some Useful Websites

(a) The reader is referred to the excellent website http://atlas.math.vanderbilt.edu/~schectex/commerrs/ in which useful discussion of many intriguing errors and pitfalls are found and tips on avoiding them. In particular, errors in calculus including integration by parts and solving differential equations are discussed at some length. (b) See also the Maths Mistakes website (a site dedicated to the listing of mathematical mistakes made by advertisers, the media, reporters, politicians, activists and others) where you can marvel at the mistakes which others (not students) make: http://members.cox.net/mathmistakes/ (c) Another valuable site is Eric Weisstein’s Mathworld supported by Wolfram Research: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/ which has a wealth of material, where you can look up definitions and formulae etc. (d) Finally, the Wikipedia free encyclopaedia has a section on Mathematics where you can look up almost anything, useful or otherwise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mathematics There are, of course, not conclusive and there are hundreds of other websites to explore ….