If you're into on-line courses, check this one out:
Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Computer Science Applications
Mathbook for dummies, any recomendation?
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I'd try to make it a rule of thumb not to buy books that insult its readers on the cover.
You should grow a thicker skin then, if you let things like book titles insult you. The whole line of "dummies" books just use it as a friendly pejorative to invite even the most-uninformed to feel comfortable picking up the book. It doesn't mean the reader is a dummy, it says "Hey, its Okay. We're all dummies at one thing or another." A particular dummies book may be good, or not, but its sill to dismiss the literally thousands of books with the word "dummies" or similar pejoratives in the title out of hand.
I would actually advice you against buying any kind of math book, when all its information is available for free on the internet:
For Kids:
For All:
A list of other free math-learning websites:
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/08/a-list-of-great-free-math-websites-for.html
Online Megacalculator:
Enjoy! 
I'd try to make it a rule of thumb not to buy books that insult its readers on the cover.
With regards to insults, I personally subscribe to the idea that if you don't get it, then people can't do it. 
This reminded me of EWD's comments:
But things have changed. These days it is quite common that students don't even know the name of the person who is lecturing to them, let alone that they feel proud to be his student! And it is equally common that faculty talk about students, in particular undergraduates, as if they were animals from another planet. Students are no longer seen as part of the solution, but as part of the problem, and textbooks and lecturing techniques have become so condescending that, if I were a student, I would take offence. I don't think that I could stand a lecturer that assumes that my attention span is no more than 7 minutes or who feels obliged to feed me a cartoon every 5 foils, and subjects me to multiple-choice tests because I am supposed to be functionally illiterate. I invite you to read carefully the catalogues of publishers of mathematical textbooks: obviously, colour math is better than B&W math, most books are recommended for being intuitive instead of formal, for being chatty instead of crisp, for being vague and sloppy instead of rigorous. It is clearly an article of the New Faith that teaching the real thing would be counter-productive: just as our students are supposed to live on junk food, they are supposed to thrive on junk science.
The loss of mutual respect has affected more than just the educational process, it has corroded publication as well. In 1975 I received a letter that objected to the style in which I had written an article for the Communications of the ACM (= Association for Computing Machinery). The complaint was that, by separating my concerns more strictly than usual, I had addressed my intended audience in a style they were not used to. The writer continued with the well-known quotation from P.T.Barnum that "No one ever got broke by underestimating the intelligence of the American people." and urged me to bear that in mind whenever I wrote for the programming community. So, 25 years ago, the rot had already set in; at the end of the century it would lead to an endless series of fat, yellow books titled "Such and such for dummies". Allow me to quote in contrast from "The elements of Style" by Strunk and White, because it reflects a much more inspiring spirit; "No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence, or whose attitude is patronizing.".
While that is a good resource in general, it's not what the op would want to go to immediately.If you're into on-line courses, check this one out:
Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Computer Science Applications
As suggested, khan academy is fantastic. The op can start at a level he feels comfortable with and the explanations will get the intuition across faster.
betterexplained.com is also a good place to cross reference while at khan.
All the best.
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The book I learned on, Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, was just released in a new edition. I did a write-up about it here. It is not a complete beginners text, but if you have a late high school level math education or have spent a few hundred hours at Kahn Academy, it's a great resource. This book covers just about every single topic in 3D graphics, it goes into a fair amount of detail on the subject and actually breaks down the equations instead of just throwing them at you. I have a sample lesson in the link above to see what you think of it. You may struggle a bit, but everything you need to know is basically in there.
If you are looking at basic level math, the stuff you need for a 2D game, I have a collection of math recipes with full running code examples, covering the math you need to make 90% of 2D games ( velocity, rotate to face, collision detection, etc ).
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all this recomendation, both the books and online free courses is pretty awesome. As much I like free stuffs books makes it easier for me to learn math for some reason :l, But I will totally check out the free courses like KhanAcademy to see where my "level" is in math, than buy a few more of the books. Am currently "lost" where I am seeing how I barely heard some of the math words. Xd
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