sandellie4 Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 I have a student attending community college who is taking college algebra next semester. She's very intimidated by math, though she did do very well with Teaching Textbooks, making it through Algebra 2 and actually remembering the material when tested for community college. The college algebra book is dense and doesn't present concepts step by step, so I'm looking for a supplement she could use, something where she could look up a concept that was intimidating and get a step-by-step explanation. I was thinking maybe Teaching Textbooks Precalculus, but it sounds like many people who liked TT all the way through high school really didn't find the precalculus program to be consistently step by step. Can anyone let me know how the precalculus program worked for them? Or has anyone used another program that worked better for non-math majors who need step-by-step explanations? Maybe MUS? TIA! Sandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan C. Posted January 20, 2012 Share Posted January 20, 2012 Dd18 is working through Lial's Intermediate Algebra this year. We went to her future college's bookstore and looked at their college algebra book, it and the Lial's book are very close. Dd has always done dvds w/her math until this year, and she is having no problem working through Lial's w/o dvds. It has helped fill in gaps and reinforce concepts that she forgot. I feel that this will prepare her for the college algebra course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunshine State Sue Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Hi Sandy, What is the text (name/author) she is using? I just signed up to volunteer to tutor math at our CC. I haven't started yet. One of the tutors told me about InterActMath. You can choose your text and it provides explanations, examples, and exercises. Maybe it would help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandellie4 Posted January 23, 2012 Author Share Posted January 23, 2012 Thank you for the replies, especially the website. :) Sandy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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