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Common math Errors 1 2018 Paul Dawkins Common math Errors Originally the intended audience for this was my Calculus I students as pretty much every error listed here shows up in that class with alarming frequency. After writing it however I realized that, with the exception of a few examples, the first four sections should be accessible to anyone taking a math class and many of the Errors listed in the first four sections also show up in math classes at pretty much every level. So, if you haven t had calculus yet (or never will) you should ignore the last section and the occasional calculus examples in the first four sections. I got the idea for doing this when I ran across Eric Schechter s list of Common Errors located at ~schectex/commerrs/.

Common Math Errors 2 © 2018 Paul Dawkins http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu The second reason has nothing to do with knowledge (or the loss of knowledge), but instead has

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