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Schaum's Outline of Elementary Algebra

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I have been teaching since 1980 and I have been following Schaum's Collection also since I was a College student. Now, I am teaching Math at Mission High School in San Francisco and I have noticed that many of the exercises (maybe all of them) give students the increasingly maturity to become selfconfidents in math. Our scores went up!

This book is suitable for both bad and good students at mathematics. Firstly, each category is explained easily but briefly. Secondly, there are many questions, so you can get used to each category and can solve many questions quickly. For another thing, this book is so compact that you can bring anywhere you go and read it. Finally but the most importantly, this book is excellent for people using English as a mother tongue. It is because my mother tongue is Japanese.

while I agree with what everyone above has said, Ill add that the series of Schaum's have helped me tremendously. IF you have a basic understanding of the concepts and need reviewing, then this might be for you.. however as a newbie, I cannot recommend a book that is consistently filled with errors. Everything said above by other reviewers is correct; compact, easy to carry, lightweight, concise, to the point, tons of problems... they simply leave out that there are page after page, in some spurts, many errors. I am at about pre-calculus level, have used Schaums Outline of Arithmetic, this book here, and purchased their Outline of Precalculus edition awhile ago. Im strictly using these books for reviewing and their inaccuracy concerns me.. for example, when I arrive at the Calc level or higher where Im probably not going to be sure of what Im doing and I need something cheap, fast, full with problems and accurate.. I don't think I will be using Schaums as I don't want to be mislead with incorrect worked out problems. For review, if you have some experience, YES use these books - definately; you can work fast and the information is packed and it's cheap! If you have no clue about the subject at hand, don't buy them. I am for Schaums technique and presentation, but their accuracy must improve... I guess that the saying holds true, 'you get what you pay for'.

I purchased this book to make a quick review of Math and help my son. I am so happy that I will buy the entire collection from elementary Algebra to Calculus including Differencial equations, Geometry and Trigonometry. Great help for those who need a solid foundation in Math. You can't go wrong with Schaum's Outline.

Well, am a college student and i had never be good at math. I was having some problems in understanding some exercises so my teacher mentioned about this book and i can say that it helped me a lot to understand and do well on the course. Right now i'm still taking math courses (advanced algreba) and i refer to this great book when i forget something. I strongly recommend this book to everyone who is looking to improve their skills, have more practice or understand better. This book is great tool.

It was 30 years ago that I used Schaum's series for myself. I find the explanation to be clear and easy to understand. I recently bought the Elementary Algebra (3rd Edition) for my daughter and tonight was the first time I sat down to get her to practice solving a few problems. Out of five problems I randomly picked for her to solve, one had an incorrect answer (5.5L). I thought my math skill had gotten rusty after 30 years, so I tried another similar problem (5.5j). The answer was again obviously incorrect, so I went on the internet to see if others had the same experience. I wasn't the only one and I am disappointed that I had to tell my daughter to follow the explanation, do the problems but ignore the answers.

I had struggled a lot with remembering Math from over 12 years earlier. The Kaplans and the Dummies GRE Prep books were great, but I needed a LOT more drilling than they offered. I used this book for 2 weeks, and in conjunction with my other studies, improved my GRE Math score by 360 points. Yes, 360 points. This book was very useful and the best bang for the buck I could find.

im not learning algebra for the first time, but got the book as a refresher in algebra. I have been out of school for over 15 years and wanted to re learn math. Initially the book starts of well, but then it just seems to cram in material not focus on the steps taken to solve the question. So i think it fall shortin this area. because i umderstood math i havw been able to figure out howmthenanswer came about, but if your new to algebra you may find this book just as fustrating as e class. I think they shoukd have just used less questions and shown more on how they got the answer.