u/Sachustar

For some context I just started chapter 2 in my textbook so I can’t really speak for the later chapters.

Anyway, I have noticed that the textbook kinda of sucks. Like I don’t mean that it’s bad or anything but half the time they just strip away the deeper mathematical concepts and stuff and just give us with a step by step shortcut that works well for a specific situation but is inefficient everywhere else.

Now obviously they shouldn’t go too deep into the math, but the level of simplifying that they do is too far. And it’s not like the shortcuts are all the good either. For example, in chapter one they teach modulus functions and and give a set of steps to find the answers but that introduces fake answers and need to be double checked and that is fine but they don’t explain why there are fake values.

Now I understand that these textbooks are made for a massive audience so they have to do this, and that’s fine. Except that they don’t even tell us what concepts the shortcuts were derived from, like just a little note in the corner would be enough.

I feel like I’m wasting so much time every page wondering, is this the shortcut or an actual concept.

Does anyone have a list for each chapter of everything they derived and from what or maybe a book that aligns Cambridge syllabus and gives mathematical depth.

Any help would be great.
Thanks!

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I’m a beginner/intermediate (depending on the language), and IST time zone.

I have a few courses and resources organized and am looking for people to join me in this or a similar path (more the merrier).

Let me know if this interests you!

I’ve read many LitRPG and similar books and I have been thinking about writing my own(mostly just for fun).

Since this is the first time I do something like this I came here for advice, from the writing to publishing(probably on RR).

Since this will be my first book I was thinking about doing something classic and go with a system apocalypse book(the first book I read was a system apocalypse).

Any advice is welcome.

Ps. I know nothing about writing, so when I say anything is helpful I mean it.