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How to solve it by Polya or transition to advanced mathematics by douglas smith might help you learn how to do proves and how to start these problems. I went through Spivak after reading these and it was a lot of help. Also try making an outline and examples for each theorem.

An example of how to show (1,2,0) is in the span of {(1,0,0),(0,1,0)} a(1,0,0) + b(0,1,0) = (1,2,0) where a = 1, b = 2 this might help you also http://www.khanacademy.org/video/linear-combinations-and-span?playlist=Linear%20Algebra