Algebra 1: Integration, Applications and Connections

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Summary: I Beg to Differ.
Review: Algebra has never been easier. This ia great book. It shows step by Step and Chapter Summaries, Quizes Test, and review. Great book.

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Summary: Algebra has never been easier
Review: Algebra has never been easier. This ia great book. It shows step by Step and Chapter Summaries, Quizes Test, and review. Great book.

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Summary: Do not purchase book
Review: This book may be okay for reveiwing material after u have learned it and been away from it for a few years,but do not buy the book if you are just learning it for the first time,i had this book in high school and the students couldn't learn anything from it including myself and i love math. Are teacher had to teach us everything on the chalk board ,then he would just have us do the problems out of the book. The book is full of errors,espeically on the answer key. Our teacher would go through every problem and do it him self on the overhead because there were mistakes in EVERY answer key. I can't beleive schools actually bought this book,what a waste of money,do schools even look at the material before they purchase it?? also some of the ploblems you get in the book,the book does not show how to do them. the first time i took algebra i failed it because they teacher told us we would find everything we needed to know in the book,and he didn't teach us much,the second time i aced it becasue of a good teacher. when i followed the book i failed,when i followed good teaching i passed. don't buy the book!!especially for schools!!

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Summary: I Beg to Differ.
Review: When I write this review, I am really referring to both volumes of the Algebra 1 series. I am a college engineering student and just completed my fourth calculus course. For the past year I have tried to help my younger brother in his Algebra class because this book didn't help at all. Examples are insufficient and the book and tests are riddled with errors. The teacher had to work out all the problems because there were so many mistakes that he could not trust his answer key. A sample of this book's terrible teaching method can be seen when it expects students to use the discriminant to find the nature of the roots for a quadratic equation. It simply has students complete a table in problem number 44 or something and then expects students to be able to tell from the results what the nature of roots for a quadratic equation are on a quiz. Few students succeeded in accomplishing this. In the chapter discussing radicals, the definition of a perfect square is never mentioned! Also students are told to tell the difference between rational and irrational roots by looking at their calculator display. Perhaps if you only use this book as a source for problems, it might be OK. But it is nearly impossible to try and learn something from this book which seems to be fixated on providing pretty graphics instead of relevant examples. My advice: Buy some other Algebra book. It is not possible to put too much effort into the search for a good algebra book because algebra is really the language of science and engineering that needs to become second nature. I haven't seen them myself, but I have heard good things about Algebra 1 by Paul A. Foerster as well as Algebra: Structure and Method by Richard G. Brown, Mary P. Dolciani, Robert H. Sorgenfrey, et. al. You might want to take a look at these books.