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 Very Good Text Book October 19, 1998
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very good text book that I am using for my 10th Grade Pre-Calculus Honors Math Class. It is easy to teach and to learn from.
Great Book August 28, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I used this book for high school trig, and it its excellent. It is clear and concise, easy to understand. It includes real life applications, and has interesting chapter projects. I would reccomend this book immensely to any one taking trig.
A helpful Textbook August 27, 2000
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is very important to have a good math book for the understanding of the concepts. This book has helped me greatly to comprehend the topics by presenting useful examples in each chapter, and it also did a good job pointing out main objectives/rules. If you need to do well in Pre-Calc start with this text!
 A textbook that works, but stresses some unnecessary points June 15, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
All in all, it's a complete precalculus textbook, covering topics from graphing, to trigonometry, to conic sections, to the surface of calculus. It contains many "real life" applications of advanced concepts, in a semi-successful attempt to quell agonizing exclamations of "When will I ever need to know this?!"But I turn to page 428 (for example), within Chapter 8 ("Vectors and Parametric Equations"), and I see a green box: "DECISION MAKING -- Choosing a Used Car," and it goes off on a tangent, asking the student, "what you would look for in a used car," or, "will you need to borrow money from your family or a bank?" Remember now, this is a HIGH SCHOOL MATH TEXTBOOK. Although the book contains a full precalculus curriculum, each chapter is sprinkled with such irrelevancies. The text refers often to graphing calculators and other electronic tools for solving problems -- an added bonus, if your school has these tools.
 bad book binding September 29, 2005
R. Littlefield (Portsmouth, RI)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The textbooks were said to be in very good condition, and one of them came completely detached from the binding. These books are for use by highschool students, and that book cannot be used.
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