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Advanced Algebra (The University of Chicago School Mathematics Project)

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You gotta be kidding me. The vaunted U. of Chicago considers this "advanced algebra"? Are they trying to make students feel better about themselves or something? This is nothing more than 7th-grade algebra.

I believe this should be clarified to students, lest the get the wind knocked out of them when they go to high school and cannot negotiate an "elementary algebra" class.

I read this book and it really explains all that math geek content well but it is a littlt crowded with exersizes and it stops a little short of being advanced. It'll get you into geometry and trig.

May I say this book holds a special place in my heart as it was the text of the absolute last math class I ever had to take in my life? Even if it was just a cop-out repeat of the easy algebra I had in 6th grade, it was still math and therefore the stuff of sterile numbers, my oldest foe in the scholastic world. Anyway, though, this isn't bad as far as algebra books go. Explains things well and keeps its Satanically evil subject mostly down to levels anybody suffering through the required college math credits can deal with. Could have been worse.