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 Dewey Decimal Number: 512 EAN: 9780395359877 Edition: Revised ISBN: 0395359872 Label: Houghton Mifflin College Div Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin College Div Publication Date: 1985-01 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin College Div Reading Level: Young Adult Studio: Houghton Mifflin College Div Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Simply ridiculousIt is hard to imagine a worse math book, except maybe the earlier editions of this title. This book demonstrates just about every bad teaching and typographic practice I know. Every page is splattered with colored text in a menagerie of fonts. Most pages feature irrelevant or misleading photos, perhaps several. There are dozens of distracting sidebars, many full of errors in fact. Just looking at a typical page, I feel my attention batted about in a pinball trajectory. Holding a thought ... Read More Rating:  - Poor Transition into Algebra and High School MathThis book is commonly used by grade schools as a transition for students to get acquainted with algebra topics and prepare for high school math courses. Sadly, this book is poorly laid out, skipping back and forth between topics like a ping pong ball, and often pampers the reader to an extent of which is clearly childish. Even grade school students who were polled often find the pictures both useless and distracting. The chapters of this book also waste space, while providing very little mathematical ... Read More Rating:  - Very HelpfulI had to prepare for some college placement exaims and needed a refresher course. This book was a trememdous help to me! 
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