algebra 2 round 2

[bethben]

My 7th grade son is completing Saxon Algebra 2 and because of his age and his increasing workload, I am thinking about having him take another Algebra 2 course at a higher level of difficulty.  He is completing Saxon Algebra 2 successfully and usually misses problems because of stupid calculation errors rather than true lack of understanding.  I am looking for a homeschool friendly textbook.  What that means to me is that I do not want to have to hunt down a detailed solution manual and answer key nor have to ask a publisher for special permission to buy their very expensive teacher manual.  Part of the reason I do like Saxon is that it has a simple answer key for him to check his own progress, but it also includes a detailed solution manual that writes out the steps taken to get to that answer in case we both don't know how the answer was arrived at.  Any suggestions?

 

Beth

[kiana]

One option is Lial -- the student solutions manual only has answers for the odd problems, but there are so many problems that doing just the odd ones is plenty.

[MarkT]

I agree with your idea

How about AoPS Intermediate Algebra?

Would be more challenging than Saxon and you can purchase the solutions manual.

[Kareni]

 Any suggestions?

 

 

Yet another possibility (and very homeschool friendly) would be Life of Fred.  The author recommends Algebra I and II before Geometry so that might work well if your son has not already taken Geometry in its entirety.

 

Here's a link.

 

Regards,

Kareni