College Algebra Demystified

A BETTER WAY TO COLLEGE ALGEBRA X-PERTISE

One of the most valuable tools acquired in a university education, college algebra is essential for courses from the sciences to computing, engineering to mathematics. It can help you do better on placement exams, even before college, and it's useful in solving the computations of daily life. Now anyone with an interest in college algebra can master it. In College Algebra Demystified, entertaining author and experienced teacher Rhonda Huettenmueller breaks college algebra down into manageable bites with practical examples, real data, and a new approach that banishes algebra's mystery.

With College Algebra Demystified, you master the subject one simple step at a time—at your own speed. Unlike most books on college algebra, general concepts are presented first—and the details follow. In order to make the process as clear and simple as possible, long computations are presented in a logical, layered progression with just one execution per step.

This fast and easy self-teaching course will help you:

Perform better on placement exams
Avoid confusion with detailed examples and solutions that help you every step of the way
Conquer the coordinate plane, lines and intercepts, parabolas, and nonlinear equations
Get comfortable with functions, graphs of functions, logarithms, exponents, and more
Master aspects of algebra that will help you with calculus, geometry, trigonometry, physics, chemistry, computing, and engineering
Reinforce learning and pinpoint weaknesses with questions at the end of every chapter, and a final at the end of the book

Customer Reviews:

Best purchase I have ever made!

By David K. Loving - February 4, 2006

I was lucky enough to have the writer of this book as my instructor for college alegbra. The math department here requires the course to be taught with a very poorly-written book that often jumps around and expects you to know things that it doesn't cover until later chapters, skips many steps in solving example problems expecting you to figure them out yourself, and is extremely difficult to read. I have severe adult ADD and I can rarely remember to pay attention in class and, I was struggling because not only did I find myself missing major parts of her lecture and having to fill in the gaps with the terrible required textbook and a reading disability but, it had also been 6 years since I last took any form of math. I was badly in need of a supplement and set out to my local major bookstore chain to grab some Starbucks and peruse the math books. I finally came upon Dr. Huettenmueller's book after having carefully looked through every other book in the store. All of the other books... read more

If you're going to buy Pre-Calculus.....

By YSS127 - January 2, 2008

I felt this book was written with clarity.
Much of it was a review for a subject that I had studied years ago and had forgotten. Its written much better than the book I had back then.

However if you intend to purchase "Pre-Calculus" by the same author, buy that book and by-pass this book. Most of the material is duplicated in "Pre-Calculus" plus the additional material you will need for calculus.

Pre-Calculus is also a well written book.

Perfect Book to Refresh the Memory

By Clifford "A yogic practitioner" - April 19, 2007

I plan to become a high school math tutor. I took algebra over 30 years ago and forgot a lot. I used this book as a refresher course and ended up liking it very much. The topics were presented in a very clear and understandable way. One excellent feature was how the author gave step-by-step solutions to all of the homework problems. When doing math problems, it can be very frustrating to find that an answer is wrong and then try to find the error. With this book, one could quickly find the error by checking the author's solutions. In my case, I found out that many of my errors were due to careless mistakes and I have to work slowly and be careful. Also, the amount and difficulty of the work problems were just right. It was enough that after finishing the book, one could feel competent with the subject matter. The author is said to be a popular teacher. I agree. Anyone who writes a such very user-friendly book has to be. A definite five-star book.

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