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[SilverMoon]

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Edited September 23, 2023 by SilverMoon

[MommyThrice]

:bigear: Me too.

 

I just LOVE your profile picture!

[titianmom]

I went thru a few curricula before settling on Lial. Here are the ISBNs:

 

0321279212 - textbook 8th edition

0321285840 - digital video set (CDs)

0321285808 - Solutions manual

 

You can get it all for prob less than $28.00 (including shipping) either on half.com or ebay.

 

Why Lials? It's an introductory course for community colleges; basically high school algebra taught in a way for those who need remedial math before college algebra.

 

The texts are very well done IMHO. There's a wide margin with practice problems along the side for the student to work out as each concept is taught, and plenty of practice problems to pick and choose from, plus a review every chapter and a test on each chapter's work. The exercises/examples are pretty clearly written so that a motivated student could teach themselves, for ex.

 

The digital videos are okay and they pause to let a student practice examples given. I'd recommend watching the entire instruction seg first before saying you don't understand, sometimes they don't clarify things until the end before giving examples. But that's the only prob I saw with them, myself. As always, they're taught be students who are good in math and sometimes those types forget that not everyone is math friendly, and they need to slow down a bit and clarify for newbies. But we're managing to get it with the CDs.

 

There's also a set for Algebra II - Lial Intermediate Algebra. I just picked up a set for $11.00 on ebay. I have to get the digital videos, but that shouldn't be more than about $10.

 

 

I've tried LOF and Saxon, also. My student is getting it with Lials. And I can see how someone who is math-friendly could just work their way through Alg I in Lials with no trouble at all.

 

BTW, mine was very math-friendly until she hit Alg I. Just fyi on that...all the sudden math became work. She was used to flying through math in 20 mins with all 100's scores, then Algebra happened.

 

Kim

Edited May 25, 2010 by titianmom

[mcconnellboys]

Chalkdust, VideoText, and Teaching Textbooks all have a video component, I believe, for parents who want/need someone else to do the teaching (my older son used VideoText). All the other texts you mention are sound and would get the job done. I haven't used them, personally, so can't really define differences between them. We are using Dolciani (Brown, Dolciani, et al) with our younger son and really like it. They include a lot of word problems that are very reminescent of Singapore.....

[romeacademy]

We used Jacobs for both Algebra and Geometry. My dd is pretty logical, but with a definite preference for art over science.

 

She liked the layout of the book. A friend is using my copy, but I remember it starting out with a lot of review. Each lesson begins with a real world problem or illustration. There were plenty of worked examples.

 

Each problem set includes 4 parts. Set 1 is review of previous material. Set 2 and 3 are nearly identical, so if dd did well on Set 2 we would skip set 3. Set 4 was one really challening problem or puzzle.

 

I was able to get a copy of the book from a local library so dd used it for about 6 weeks before we decided to buy. I had a teacher's guide which included answers to all the problems, but no solutions, and a test booklet.

 

Tegwin