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I bought this book to help me with my Pre-Calculus work and found it v ery helpful, however it does come up a bit short in comparison to what is included in most of today's precalculus textbooks. I would say that 75-85% of my textbook was included in this book. What was included in the book was extremely helpful as a last minute test review which reflected on my test scores.

I bought this to familiarize myself with Calculus in preparation for my Masters Degree. It did help but as a math novice I didn't get as much out of it as I could have if I had more training.

If you have had pre-calculus and are looking to review, this would be a good choice.

The author of this book truly understands what layman's terms means because it breaks down all the unnecessary nonsense the writer of my precal textbook put in it to try to seem more intelligent than they actually are.

This book is good because I'm not exceptional at math and I've always had trouble the more I foray into math.Calculus has always been a monstrosity in my opinion and this book helps ease my learning of it because it gives a steady pace with which to learn and helps reinforce some things one may have forgotten in years of negligence.

As long as you have the motivation to study, I think this book will be very helpful to you. It's perfect for the student who can't understand their teacher's explanations and need to use another source to learn. It can also be good for independent study, as that was my reason for using it.

The book begins with math concepts one should know before beginning pre-calculus, and each chapter builds up information to make the student ready for the subsequent chapter. If you're studying the subject on your own, then you'll have to go in order of the chapters. But if you're taking a real class on pre-calculus already, and you just want to review a certain topic, it's easy to find what you're looking for either through the table of contents or the detailed index. After you've completed this book, and understood all its contents, you'd be ready for tackling calculus.

The book is great because the lessons are pretty straightforward. After the topic has been explained well enough, there are one or two practice problems the student can do to see if they understand. It's a shame that this book doesn't contain more practice problems, but I suppose it's okay as long as you have another textbook with problems you can try out. Overall, I would recommend it!

i ordered this for my daughter to help with her homework because her teacher was not helping her with her explanations