Paul P. Arnold's profile

This program is very very bad, February 19, 2005

I have used Quicken for a number of years. I have noticed that is has actually gotten worse with each year. This latest upgrade has locked me out of my previous accounts that worked under 2004. What am I supposed to do? Spend 20 hours trying to iron out the bugs? Heck no. I am switching to Microsoft and never looking back.

Quicken has lost one customer for life. Please do yourself a favor and do not buy this product. There are much better alternatives.

Great resource for teaching the underlying logic of math, January 25, 2004

This book is an excellent resource for any math teacher. Rather than focusing on the simple rules and procedures of mathematics, this book brings to light the underlying principles of why many mathematical procedures exist in the first place. I personally use this book when I want to kick my teaching up a notch and really delve into higher order thinking. I used insights from this book to get my kids to discover why math works the way it does. It is great.

One small caveat: this book is not particularly well organized in ready-to-use lesson plan format. Most of the ideas in this book need to be worked with to develop full-blown lessons. But the ideas are good enough that this… Read more

Must have material in preparing for the LSAT, June 10, 2003

There is no substitute for taking real, timed, practice LSATs. It is simply the best way to prepare for the real thing. My study plan was two part: First, I paid the big bucks for an LSAT class. Second, I studied real tests every day out of this and its companion book. While the class was great, I found that simply studing all of the material on the real test was by far the most useful thing I did (not to mention that it cost a lot less). These books are simply a must have to prepare well and I recomend them to everyone. In my case, they helped me score in the mid 170s.