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LIVE 60: Algebra Basics

W/Tu 12–1am from 1/18 (Your Time*)

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This LIVE course contains a total of 20 hours of live video instruction (~$20/hour), plus 1 year of access to Prof. Loh's recorded videos from this course.

We’ve carefully designed our courses to maximize engagement. Each of our LIVE classrooms has at least one staff member for every 13 students. The typical class size is around 30 students.

* The official meeting time for this course is 7:00pm in New York.

The class time will change over the duration of this session, because your country's Daylight Savings Time adjustments differ from the target time zone of this course.

Diagnostic Tests:

Will I understand?Will I learn new things?

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Syllabus

The 20 course meetings are split in 16 lessons (called Day 1 through Day 16 below), and 4 homework exam discussions. Each exam discussion meeting happens after 4 lessons.

Day 1

Estimation and simplifying of fractions; decimals; number sense techniques

Day 2

Complex fractions; mixed numbers; simplifying expressions; solving equations containing fractions; substitution; square roots; word problems; addition and subtraction of fractions; reciprocals

Day 3

Equivalent fractions; number line; least common denominator; estimations and operations on mixed numbers

Day 4

Applications of proportions; percents and rates; solving equations with variables

Day 5

Rates and proportion; applications of rates; word problems

Day 6

Similar figures; 3-D solids; geometric sequences

Day 7

Applications of percents; decimals; and rates; cost analysis; percent increase and decrease

Day 8

Applications of percents; decimals; and rates; cost analysis; percent increase and decrease

Day 9

Applications to accounting; word problems; unit cost; cost analysis; percents

Day 10

Estimation; applications to cost; average; rates

Day 11

Applications of ratios and rates; circumference; prime factors; fractions; decimals

Day 12

Complex ratios and proportions; fractions

Day 13

Rate-time problems; reciprocals; adding and simplifying fractions; factors

Day 14

Applications of rates; rate-time-distance problems

Day 15

Rates; harmonic average; applications of rates; word problems

Day 16

Rates; acceleration; word problems; arithmetic sum; interpreting graphs

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Refund Policy

No refund requests will be accepted after the student’s second LIVE session starts; Refund amount: 75% refund in the original payment method or 100% refund in course credits.