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The following are short videos (5 to 15 minutes) that describe some common errors that students make in this course. You want to avoid making these errors! All of these are significant issues that show a missunderstanding of the underlying mathematical processes, and all of them will lead to loss of points if you do them on an assignment.

• Square Root of a Sum of Squares (134MB) (8.5 minutes)
• Cancelation in Fractions (194MB) (14 minutes)
• Square Root of x² (161MB) (10.5 minutes)
• "And" vs "Or" (175MB) (12.5 minutes)
• Use of Parentheses (175MB) (5.5 minutes)
• Functions and their Arguments (109MB) (7.5 minutes)

Student Advice web pages Created: 01 Sep 2020 Last modified: 11 Sep 2021 08:51:00 Comments to: dpvc@union.edu

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