


The chapter wraps up with a chapter review and test, and a final review and examination rounds out the text. Some chapters include oral practice, but all examples are shown in a step-by-step fashion for thorough understanding. Each chapter begins with an introduction to the topic, a visual example, an objective for that section, and exercises. Chapters, in order, are: expressions and equations, operations with negative numbers, distributing: axioms and other properties, harder equations, some operations with polynomials and radicals, quadratic equations, expressions and equations containing two variables, linear functions/scattered data/probability, properties and exponents, more operations with polynomials, rational algebraic expressions, radical algebraic expressions, inequalities, functions, and advanced topics.

This book is in its third edition and now includes a chapter on probability, scattered date, and linear functions, which wasn't included in the previous edition. The second part of the book covers expressions with two variables, harder factoring problems, algebraic fractions, radical equations, and inequalities. As a result, students are able to work more realistic word problems using decimals. The first part of the book leads up to the Quadratic Formula by mid-year this is a break from a more traditional sequence. This text is a one year, high-school algebra course that the author used in his own classroom.
