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Painless Algebra (Barron's Painless) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lynette Long Ph.d.
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
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Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 14005
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 224
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0764134345
Dewey Decimal Number: 512.9
EAN: 9780764134340
Publication Date: August 1, 2006
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Product Description
For students who are intimidated by all forms of math, here is a set of easy steps that lead to an understanding of elementary algebra. The author defines all terms, points out potential pitfalls in algebraic calculation, and makes problem solving a fun activity. New in this edition are painless approaches to understanding and graphing linear equations, solving systems of linear inequalities, and graphing quadratic equations.
Barron s popular Painless Series of study guides for middle school and high school students offer a lighthearted, often humorous approach to their subjects, transforming details that might once have seemed boring or difficult into a series of interesting and mentally challenging ideas. Most titles in the series feature many fun-to-solve Brain Tickler problems with answers at the end of each chapter.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 17 more reviews...
 Algebra Made Really Clear! February 20, 2000
A. Cooper (Texas)
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
What a wonderful book! While it does not have as many exercises as some of the bigger books, it does a great job of making algebra clear and easy. There were some sections of algebra that other books left me feeling confused about; Painless Algebra cleared up my questions right away, and I was surprised at how quickly I understood it! I just wish there was a Painless Geometry, Painless Trig, Painless Calculus... That's a hint to the author! :)
I'm going back to college because of this book! June 26, 2001
Carol Alaniz (near Detroit, Michigan)
56 out of 56 found this review helpful
In '93, I withdrew from college because I could not pass pre-algebra. I never took algebra in high school, so I was lost in my college pre-algebra class by the second week. My professor told me to withdraw in order to save my GPA which was quite high.Fast forward to 2001. I bought this book and it really opened my eyes! I can see where I made my mistakes in class and I can understand the concepts that my prof. and a tutor could not get me to understand. Everything seems so simple now--some of my past mistakes were very simple ones! This book is real easy to understand. The book breaks down each concept and the problems are broken down step by step so it's real easy to see what you have to do. It took me only a half-hour to memorize the Order of Operations and apply that to the problems. If you use this in tandem with a book you have for a class, it will make things really easy. The books takes you from the beginning (what a variable is) all the way to graphing two dimensions on a graphing table. My husband who was a math whiz in school looked at this book and said it's an Algebra 1 book. I'm hoping to understand the concepts thoroughly so I can take a Pre-Algebra placement test and pass for credit. The only negative things I have to say are that there aren't enough problems to work on. And, my husband said it was a shame that there was only ONE problem (at the end of the book) that shows graphing in three dimensions. He said since the author put that in, she should have continued on with more problems for that concept, or she should have left it out. I'm just so happy about the fact that I can finally understand Algebra! It's like a lightbulb went off in my head. Now, I'm going back to college to finish my degree!
Excellent- and I'm a math teacher! February 23, 2007
James Atkins (Twentynine Palms, CA USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I use this book as a resource in the classroom for helping my students master algebra. Sometimes textbooks don't explain well and I run out of alternative ways to explain a concept. Painless Algebra helps me help them with clear, lucid explanations of algebra concepts. I'd recommend this to anyone who finds their textbooks less than helpful- that's pretty much every math student I ever met, myself included. Great book.
Highly effective and super easy to understand June 25, 2007
Todd Adams (Nashville, TN United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Learning algebra could not be any easier. Lynette Long promises to show the concepts of algebra painlessly and she delivers on that promise. Algebra is a subject that seems intimidating to so many people, but truly I've never seen a book that explains a subject as clearly and simply as this.
This book takes any mystery and fear out of algebra and makes the concepts clear, practical, and easily translated to real life and real language. I can't imagine any book could do a better job of guiding autodidacts to an understanding of algebra.
What a great book!! September 15, 2005
S. Magner (Andrews AFB, MD United States)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I am an adult taking college algebra, but I haven't been in a math class in a LOT of years. This book has made a subject that used to frighten me a lot more managable. I actually know what I'm doing now!
I would recommend this book for anyone who is starting out in algebra wether they are 12 or 52!!
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