I've decided because of feeling completely useless with trying to help my daughter with homework that a refresher course is in order. Please recommend math books for old farts like me who remember little to nothing from his school years.

Look into the ABEKA home school books

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Originally posted by goose5:
I've decided because of feeling completely useless with trying to help my daughter with homework that a refresher course is in order. Please recommend math books for old farts like me who remember little to nothing from his school years.

Try youtube -- many topics there that can help, and free.

--K

Khan Academy (on youtube) is great. 20 min videos on pretty much any topic.

Math-u-See is a pretty awesome curriculum. Once you get to Geometry and Trig it is a little light on proofs but on the whole the curriculum is great. It runs from Kindergarten up trough Calculus. Depending on what level your daughter is on, you may have to go back a bit to pick up some basic principles that are often taught but never really explained well. Math-U-See explains things in ways kids can really grasp.

What are you trying to learn? Geometry, Algebra, Calculus.

I'd like to start with Algebra and move as far along as I can.

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Originally posted by goose5:
I'd like to start with Algebra and move as far along as I can.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAerID24QJ0

There's a part 2 and a natural progression that you can follow.

I’ve found Kahn Academy to be a good resource. You can search out the type of problem your daughter and it shows you how it’s solved.

Hint: Math is taking simple steps, n order, until you come to a solution. Once you understand a follow the steps you’re golden.



https://www.khanacademy.org/math

I agree with the Khan academy votes. You may also want to check out some older Algebra textbooks on Ebay. A textbook can give terrific practice problems that save you from trying to think of your own.

And when you're truly stuck ... Wolfram Alpha.

The older Saxon texts are good. I swear, I'll buy most all of them off Amazon just to have around.) When you get to the point of needing university level texts, I recommend Larson & Hostetler's Precalculus and Calculus series. Or Spivak if you want a more rigorous treatment of Calculus.

Abeka is what we use as the curriculum in our school and you can order the books for whatever grade you're looking for they're not very expensive. Abeka math is very easy to understand you can almost teach it to yourself just by following along each day.

If you're just looking for a refresher look into Schaum's outlines by far the best study aids I have ever seen and used you could almost teach yourself anything and they make them for all different subjects and all different levels.

We use Kahn Academy in our district. The lessons are easy to follow.

I strongly second the recommendation of the Saxon books. I have firsthand experience using them as supplemental material during high school.

http://patrickjmt.com/
I followed this gentlemen's video from elementary algebra to differential equations. I can recommend his channel enough.

I suggest you simply use your daughter's textbook. Typically they move straightforward, giving everything you need. Definitions, concepts, how to work problems, example problems, etc.

If there is some concept you simply can't comprehend from the text, then you can google it and look for alternative explanations. But if you want to help your daughter, it's important that you, and she, can do the work the way that her text is showing you.

In school, math is not about the answer-it's about how you get the answer.

When my kid asked me to help with high school calculus, I drew a blank. I was a math and science major in college. But never used calculus in my career. Algebra, and physics ideas, yes. Calculus no. I felt bad having forgot most everything about diffy-q. Kid survived, and now is in last year of Dr school. Has an MBA too.