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Preface
A Complete Mathematics Course for Secondary Schools is a series of five books. The first three books cover the latest syllabus set out by the Jamaican Ministry of Education for Form 1 to Form 3. The fourth and fifth books complete the preparation for the CXC Examination.
In this book there are many specifically developed features that will enhance the learning of mathematics, such as:
makes the topic relevant to the students. Students are asked questions so that they can use their the teaching-learning experience.
and its solution.
develop their thinking process, to make mathematics more meaningful and interesting, and to motivate them to solve problems.
methods of solving the problem. The comments in fine print in the examples give the thinking processes and background information.
These problems serve to reinforce, integrate and help revise the concepts learnt in a chapter.
The first three books in the series have been specifically adapted for Jamaica from the best selling Caribbean mathematics series “A Complete Mathematics Course for Secondary Schools”. These lower forms texts will seamlessly flow into the CXC Examination texts: “Mathematics, A Complete Course for CSec, Volumes 1 and 2”. All the books in this series will more than greatly prepare students for examinations; this series will create a love for the learning of mathematics.
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