Exam Preparation

Algebra is an elementary algebra text from one of the leading mathematicians of the world -- a major contribution to the teaching of the very first high school level course in a centuries old topic -- refreshed by the author's inimitable pedagogical style and deep understanding of mathematics and how it is taught and learned. This book is about algebra. The main part of the book is made up of problems. The best way to deal with them is: Solve the problem by yourself, compare your solution with the solution in the book (if it exists), and then go to the next problem.

This easy-to-understand reference explains algebra in terms you can understand. It also gives you the necessary tools to solve complex problems.

Over the years, Barron's popular and widely-used Easy Way books have proven themselves to be accessible self-teaching manuals. Math the Easy Way includes instruction and review in whole numbers, fractions, percentages, as well as introductions to algebra and statistics. You will also find a diagnostic test and an end-of-book practice test with answers.

While rigorous enough to be used as a college or high school text, the book is reader friendly and clear enough to be used for self-study in a non-classroom environment. "Pre-test'' material enables readers to target problem areas quickly and skip areas that are already well understood. Chapters feature "post-tests'' for self-evaluation. Thousands of practice problems, questions and answers make this algebra review a unique and practical text.

Precalculus thoroughly explores topics in algebra, trigonometry, and analytic geometry, and all the examples, applications, and exercises have been selected for their relevance to calculus. The trigonometric functions are introduced first in terms of the unit circle approach and then using right triangles. The text includes over 6,000 exercises that accommodate a variety of teaching and learning styles, plus a number of contemporary, real-life applications.

This plain-English guide to intermediate algebra explains what algebra is all about, in language that's easy to understand. Then it shows you how to solve every kind of problem that you'll find on your tests, step-by-step. You get 885 completely worked problems, with each step in their solutions. More than a thousand additional problems let you test your skills, then check the answers.

After years and years of teaching algebra (a subject he personally detested) to high school and college students, Kelley (the Coordinator or Preparation for the American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence) has written an algebra book that will teach you, entertain you, explain things so you'll finally understand! How does this book compare to similar titles? While it contains all basic algebra topics (from fractions to matrix equations), there's also lots of practice problems with complete solutions, so you'll not only read about algebra but learn how to d