One advantage of LaTeX over the other TeX-flavors is that it provides an automatic numbering of sections, theorems, equations etc., together with an easy way to refer to these numbers.
The value of a counter can be changed with a command of the type:
\setcounter{equation}{0}
LaTeX's floats cannot be split across pages. Sometimes, however, you want to have a table or figure that doesn't fit on one page. The easiest way is to split these into multiple table or figure environments