Mastering Essential Math Skills: No-Nonsense Algebra (Part of the Series)

dfUSA: Great source for extra help

United States on Sep 29, 2023

PATRICK B JOCSON: Excellent!

United States on Aug 15, 2023

Kelsey: This book is extremely concise and straightforward. I taught school in both public and private sectors for over 20 years. I am now homeschooling my middle school and high school children. I am very familiar with algebra curricula from the pre-algebra to the algebra 2 levels. I have 4 kids that have used this book and I can tell you that 3 of them really benefited from this book, one of them did not. We did not have any problems accessing the online videos. It was a great tool. My oldest son is a bit of a stubborn punk, and basic know-it-all. He didn’t NEED to watch the videos because he already knew it and with using this just to review his math skills (in order to take the placement test at the local junior college so that he could dual enroll while still in high school). He flunked the the algebra portion of his placement test and learned that he is not what he thought he was.
My 3 others middle school students used this as a 7th and 8th grade curriculum. They are now 8th and 9th graders and have completed a standard algebra one curriculum, that they sailed through. They are doing algebra 2 this year along with geometry. And as a plug for the geometry curriculum by the same...

United States on Jul 09, 2018

Amazon Customer: The book was ok however it didn't help my understanding of algebra very much unfortunately.

United Kingdom on Jan 28, 2017

Ara: The perfect companion to mastering algerbra

United Kingdom on Dec 12, 2016

Peggie: I just went through this book to put together my 8th grade son's curriculum plan for the year. I went through the lessons/format etc and the reviews. This book is AMAZING. It really is basic algebra, the one-world language of math. LOVE IT. The crazy backwords crap they tried shoving down his throat (aka COMMON CORE NONSENSE) in our California public school system left him still confused and, though he passed the class with a B, he still feels like none of it is 'clear' in his head, and he gets re-confused when problems he hasn't done in a while are re-introduced (a problem he NEVER had before the common core movement). This is a GATE kid who knew his ABCs at 18 months old, and reads 3 grade levels ahead, and common core math confuses him (and me, I'm a college grade who LOVES algebra and even I don't get common core lol). So we are starting over, homeshooling this year, with good old fashioned regular old MATH, and this is PERFECT! Now he will remember it for life the way I do, and he'll do great in high school geometry & trig.

UPDATE!!!!
We are on to the second quarter, and he is doing so well. On units that are easy for him, we do one unit per day. On more...

United States on Aug 16, 2016

LogicalVista: We came from FLVS and there was so much new math
and practical application it was confusing. I understand trying to get students
to see how math is applied to everyday life, but there was so much of that and not
enough review of concepts then you would get the whole summary at the end it
did not work for my daughters shorter focus.
We needed to get to the core formulas of math and
practice. In choosing this curriculum, No nonsense Algebra, My daughter read the reviews and we watched the
a few sample videos. She chose this curriculum over MUS and Saxon. For MUS , seeing
the instructor was a visual distraction for her, where in this curriculum
hearing the instructor's voice is fine for her. Also, the practice
problems are not as long as Saxon. With FLVS each concept
was in its own module, without daily review of concepts learned before. If the concepts weren't building
or sequential, she would forget what was learned in the beginning modules.Review was up to the student.
Or for final exam time, a big final review.
This curriculum is a good
"middle ground" for her. She likes the NO fluff, getting down
to using the formulas , working...

United States on Aug 15, 2015