Hardcover: 968 pages
Publisher: MCDOUGAL LITTEL (March 22, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0395771145
ISBN-13: 978-0395771143
Product Dimensions: 1.5 x 8 x 9.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
Best Sellers Rank: #480,861 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #12 in Books > Children's Books > Education & Reference > Math > Advanced #316 in Books > Science & Math > Mathematics > Popular & Elementary > Pre-Calculus #4536 in Books > Textbooks > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics
Grade Level: 09 - 12
This is an outstanding textbook. I used this book for self-study (in conjunction with the solutions manual), and feel so much more confident in my mathematical abilities for having gone through the process. The other positive reviews give good insight into the book, so I will just add a few observations.If you have previously completed the other McDougal Littell books Algebra Structure and Method Books I and II (Dolciani et. al.) and Geometry (Jurgensen Brown Jurgensen), you will have no trouble with this book and gain a lot. I think the reviewers who struggled with this book entered with an inadequate background. I good teacher is helpful in guiding you through the material, but if you have been properly prepared in algebra and geometry, the teacher won't need to add much substance to what it here.This book puts the math up front. Math courses nowadays often focus too much too soon on applications, leading you through a lot of practical problems trying to tease out solutions approaches before finally getting to the math needed to really tackle them effectively. By the time they get to this, they have spent so many pages churning through their motivating examples that they don't have room to cover the math sufficiently for the student to understand it. You will get plenty of chance to see applications of math in your science, engineering, or business courses, so math courses should make sure you are solid on the math when you go in. Then in those courses you can then focus on their content without being side-tracked on struggling with how they did a calculation in one of the mathematical models they use. Brown's book will see to it that you are confident in the math.That is not to say that Brown doesn't have any applications (word) problems.
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