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The index lists the main definitions, but usually links to a section in which to find the term. Because the textbook is available online, the errata are regularly incorporated in the version that many students access. The text often includes examples that relate the topic to a real-world application that is likely to remain relevant for at least the foreseeable future e.

The one improvement that could make it even more appealing for students would be to have alternative media, perhaps associated video content or more infographics. There are existing loosely aligned video options e. Khan Academy that can be used to supplement the text in its current form however. The book is certainly written in an approachable format and provides thorough explanations, often explicitly giving the steps involved in a particular solution.

The terminology is consistent throughout the book, and each chapter is organized in a logical manner. Much of the material could be selected independently and used to supplement an existing curriculum.

It is a bit repetitive to cover quadratic equations in chapter 2 and within the context of polynomial and rational functions in chapter 5, so perhaps a better curricular approach would begin with chapter 3 material on functions. Depending on your institution however, it may be helpful to have so much prerequisite material available in the same textbook. As would be expected with any textbook, there are a few minor typos. Overall however they are rare and often corrected in the online version.

Although the text does not seem to make specific efforts to be particularly inclusive or diverse, it is neither culturally insensitive nor offensive. After having looked through a number of different Open Educational Resources for College Algebra, I think Open Stax has one of the best textbooks currently available.

The text thoroughly covers all of the topics I would expect from a College Algebra text and more. It has extensive review material as well. The text has a large index of terms, properties and theorems.

A click of your mouse on any index item takes A click of your mouse on any index item takes you to the appropriate section. I would like to see an irrational number defined as any number that cannot be expressed as a fraction of two integers and, when written in decimal form, is a non-terminating and non-repeating decimal. It is also nice to show how a repeating decimal can be written as a fraction, thus demonstrating that a repeating decimal is a rational number.

In looking over this text, I did find two errors, one in the solution to Section 3. I did report these errors and one typo in 5. There are thousands of exercises in this text and I am sure they are completed with an extremely high degree of accuracy! Most information for the word problems is general in nature and covers a wide range of topics. However, some word problems were dated. For example, in section 4. In section 4. Updated information and dates would be nice and would be fairly easy to implement.

Information is given clearly with terminology explained fully. Each objective has notes with rules and detailed explanation. Every example has a detailed solution available with the click of the mouse.

The book is extremely consistent in its framework. Each chapter begins with a list of its sections. Each section begins with the learning objectives for the section followed by a Real World Example to spark interest. There are many exercises and every section has extensions and Real World Applications as well. The end of each chapter contains vocabulary, formulas, section concepts, review exercises and a practice test.

I did find one case where I felt there was inconsistency in terminology. Since each chapter is divided into sections, a section works very favorably as a lesson plan for each class. Each section has its own learning objectives, examples, videos and exercises. Some of the sections could be rearranged or skipped altogether.

Overall, the organization of topics and materials is excellent. The learning objectives are in bold print. There are Extensions and Real World Applications as well. I would like to see a little more detailed explanation of pi, when it is first used in Chapter 1.

Also, multiplying binomials and FOIL are introduced in 1. I found it extremely easy to navigate around from various sections, to problem answers and to media with the click of the mouse. The index is very user friendly as well. I never ran into any distortions or dead ends! I found nothing culturally offensive in this text. The word problems are primarily general in nature and cover a wide variety of topics. I believe this text is a great offering for a College Algebra course and you can't do better than free!

It is apparent that a great deal of time and effort have been put into this text and its framework. College Algebra, by Jay Abramson, would work extremely well for an online course, and we may see a few this semester!

The College Algebra textbook contains a wide range of topics that we currently cover in our College Algebra course, such as polynomial, rational, exponential, and logarithmic functions. The course material is presented in a logical order with a The course material is presented in a logical order with a seamless transition from one topic to another. The textbook offers many meaningful exercises to practice the concepts covered in each section.

The textbook contains no errors as I read through the examples, or in the section exercises and their solutions. The textbook includes many word problems and applications; that will continue to support the students in understanding the concepts of algebra for a long time. The concepts of the textbook are clearly explained. The author includes a lot of examples in each topic and provides many ways while presenting the contents using visual methods such as highlighting the rules, graphs, and illustrations to make it clear for the students to achieve a better understanding of mathematical reasoning.

The text is organized in a logical and consistent format while reading within topics. I noticed that the author used the same mathematical terminology throughout the book.

The students will be pleased with the flow of reading without any disruption. The topics are presented in a logical order and building in each other concept-wise. The chapters can be accessed easily using the table of contents. I found no interface issues; I navigate through the sections without having any distraction or confusion. The textbook is free of any offensive language or anything that will disturb the reader based on cultural relevance.

As the prices of many commercial textbooks are rising high, this book will be just a good fit for students who are financially challenged. I'm pleased with the material in this textbook and the way it was presented to the reader. The text covers material comparable to the text I currently use. The text is broken into logical sections comparable to the text that I currently use to teach with. This textbook covers all standard topics in College Algebra textbook, including prerequisite materials.

There are two versions of the book: a PDF version and an online version. The online version has more capabilities such as hypermedia links to Overall, the examples and applications are up-to-date and all of the media hyperlinks that I have opened are working properly. The author uses a consistent narrative text that develops learner curiosity. Each chapter is organized around a set of learning objectives that are listed explicitly at the beginning of each section. Reasonings to why a specific method is used while finding the answer is given and that should eliminate the need of any outside sources.

The Text is internally consistent in terms of terminology and framework with no notable exceptions. The text is divided into chapters and therefore it would be easy to use only parts of the text. The sections are of a reasonable length to teach in a regular class time setting.

The paragraphs are not too long and should be easy for students to read and follow. The author makes all kind of efforts to keep the textbook clear and to the point in a logical way. For example, each section is supported by one or more worked examples and followed by a set of exercises that are organized by question type.

I really like the inclusion of many hyperlinks for YouTube explanation videos in the Media part toward the end of each section. I just thought that this could be enhanced by adding more hyperlinks for YouTube videos next to each example. The text is not culturally insensitive or offensive in any way. The book uses general names and places and gets data from trusted sources such as the United States Census Burea. I believe that more questions, animations, and videos could be added to make more connections between the learners and the learning objectives.

The textbook contains all standard topics in modern College Algebra textbooks. Compare to our current textbook, which is from a commercial publisher, it covers the "Conic Sections" topics under the " Analytic Geometry".

And the textbook does not And the textbook does not have a section covering "Mathematical Induction". However, we do not cover both topics in current semester 15 weeks course. Hence it does not affect our current course. The textbook seemed to go through proof reading by many people. I didn't check all the details line by line. However, with a scan through review of the textbook, it seems that the textbook has adequate accuracy in both explanation and computation.

I would not worry about the text will be obsolete or out of dated within a short period of time as College Algebra is pretty much settled subject. In addition, the textbook can be mainly distributed by electronic form, such as PDF format or direct web access, the authors or instructors can easily add extra up-to-date material or topic if they need to do so. The text seems more friendly to students to read than a typical textbooks on the market.

It try to deliver the idea in a short sentence rather than a more lengthy but rigorous way. In some sense, the clarity to students and the clarity of instructors might different. However, for the level of mathematics course that students are taking, it should be acceptable level.

From the textbook preface, I found that there are nine additional contributing authors in addition to the main author. As an author of a textbook which was written with several co-authors, I know it is a hard process to keeping the consistency in terminology, notations, and the tone of explanations. However, this text seems maintain the consistency reasonably well. I cannot noticed any particular chapter was written by different author.

This is a bit too much to asking for the mathematics text. As mathematics textbook authors consider a certain structural development in sequential way, it is hard to write a text that is easily and readily divisible into smaller reading sections that can be assigned at different points within the course. However, I personally do not over concern for this aspect in choosing a text.

As we described the text seems to written for easier access to students. Also I believe students will like "How To…" blocks as they can easily imitate the algorithm to solve the problem.

The textbook has adequate format and spacing. I like the feature and students will appreciate the feature. Students can use their smart phone to watch the video right away without typing the URL or clicking.

Mathematics text seldom has cultural issue. However, i would like to point out some application problems are not so adequate. For example, in chapter 5, a suspension bridge is modeled by quadratic function parabolic curve which is not true as the suspension bridge has not only affected by the gravitation but also by "suspension" force at the pole. We need to be a bit more sensitive in application problems.

Overall, the textbook is adequate to be used or be replaced many commercial textbooks. The writing style and the interface are friendly to students and examples and exercise problems are good enough for a typical College Algebra course.

Moreover, it is free to students! This textbook covers all topics in college algebra, with many chapters to review pre-requisite knowledge, including solving linear equations, factoring, solving quadratic equations and graphing quadratic functions. Instructors who have a need to Instructors who have a need to review pre-requisite knowledge can find useful resources in this textbook.

This is a great feature. The PDF version's lesson index are all hyperlinks to the corresponding lessons. Each lesson starts with a real-life application. The textbook uses many real-live scenarios in examples. There should be more. The textbook should instead use Desmos or Geogebra, free resources for students. The textbook's language is easy to understand. For some difficult topics, the textbook can be confusing for students who are not used to reading math textbooks. This is a common issue for all math textbooks, though.

It's difficult for students to read through textbooks in general. The textbook is easily and readily divisible into smaller reading sections that can be assigned at different points within the course. Each lesson's objective is clear. Lessons are organized into a logical order, with later lessons built on earlier lessons.

Functions are introduced early on. The following are some good features: Important procedures and strategies are summarized in grey boxes. The PDF version has hyperlinks to figures and tables. Both the online version and the PDF version have hyperlinks to Youtube videos. At the end of each chapter, key concepts are listed with hyperlinks to corresponding examples. This is very confusing to students. The online version supports search of key words. However, when I search for phrases by using quotation marks, it found some extra results which have only a part of the phrases.

The textbook has a way to receive feedback reporting errors , but the link to report error is not available when you are reading the textbook. Once I click on it, I need to sign up to report an error, and the error form gives me an error when I use Safari. This process should be made easier. Any reader should be able to report an error.

This textbook has little mentioning of any cultural issues. I didn't found examples using names. The textbook covers regression for linear, exponential and logarithm functions, but not for polynomial functions. At least it should cover modeling with quadratic functions, a common application in real life.

Before the following issues are resolved, it's hard for me to use it in my classes: 1. The online version should either show solutions to all exercises, or remove even-numbered exercises.

The online version should add numbers to hyperlinks to figures and tables. Instead of saying "Please look at Figure", it should say "Please look at Figure 1". College Algebra includes all the topics critical to a college algebra course, including review topics. It is complete in its coverage of the building blocks of algebra, many types of functions, their graphs and conic sections. The exercise sets The exercise sets include sufficient variety and quantity of exercises to practice the ideas and skills covered in each section.

There have been some inaccurate labels and directions in the PDF version that I have not seen in the online version. Overall the text includes applications ranging across many subjects, issues, fields, and interests to be meaningful to a wide cross section of students.

And the examples and exercises are generic and basic enough that they will not be out of date. The textbook introduces new concepts and notation in each section with clear explanation.

Pictures, tables, graphs and other visuals effectively illustrate ideas in a clear manner. The text is consistent in layout and approach to topics. Terminology is used in a consistent way throughout the chapters. Sections within each chapter break up the material such that it can be covered in a single class session. One exception to this is 2.

The latter is also included in 4. The content in the sections is divided into self-contained topics which allows for easy reference or for reordering or skipping to serve overall course objectives. Overall the text is organized such that concepts build on each other in a logical fashion. However, I have also found that covering 2. The interface for both the PDF and the online version work well and navigating around the text with the table of contents is convenient.

The PDF version has numbers on the section exercises whereas the online version has links to selected solutions but does not have exercises numbers, which can be confusing. I have not come across anything in the text that raises concerns or questions related to cultural relevance. I have used several textbooks for college algebra and find this textbook to be just as good or better than ones with high price tags, so being free to students makes it a good choice.

I will likely continue to use this textbook. The college algebra text covers all the typical topics for a course of this type. Within each idea there is an appropriate level of both mathematical rigor and application. Though there were a few discrepancies between the online book and the hard copy and a couple of questionable solutions in the solutions manual, the accuracy of the text was excellent.

The text has up to date applications and connections. I see no reason why the types of questions and approaches the authors take will not make for a long lasting and relevant text. The language and organization of the text is excellent. It is very readable and student friendly. Additionally, the notation used is clear and unambiguous, leading to strong student comprehension.

I did do a little reorganizing of the text. It seemed like some topics, like linear and quadratic equations, appeared and then disappeared, but reappeared later in a slightly new context. I thought it would have been better to keep them together so students could make more connections due to familiarity. The text is very logically progressive and organized in such a way that both deductive and inductive methods of learning are present.

It is consistently varied in that students are asked to think, explore and then do as a part of their learning engagement. Precise, but not so much jargon that the reader is consistently lost or needing to retrace their previous reading.

Thank you for putting such a fantastic resource together for students and professors. I will definitely use this again! The text covers the full-set of expected material from a college algebra course with an emphasis on functions. The table of contents contains easy and clear links to chapters and sections even the PDF has links!

Every section uses worked and explained examples to showcase ideas and has a full set of practice exercises. I encountered few examples that use time-sensitive data that would need to be updated frequently teen texting habits from in 4. Math textbooks are not easy reads for students, and I think most of mine would wish this had more examples with explained steps.

Math jargon can be overwhelming and frequently the text and does extra work to clarify or define terms. The online text has too many things in gray highlighting boxes, and lacks the visual contrast of the pdf.

Overall I find the text more accessible than a standard math text. The terminology seemed consistent throughout. Sections also follow similar patterns which make navigation and reading more straightforward. Several of the sections contain too many topics and would be better served being separated into more manageable parcels.

Section 3. The text is clearly organized and follows a logical progression. I had no interface problems. However there are a variety of quality of life improvements that would make the text much more readable and approachable for students not the same grey boxes everywhere please. Many things link in the online reader, but are missing specific labels. The search bar is a very nice feature and appears robust. The end of section key-ideas summary contains links to specific worked examples which is wonderful.

There examples are by no means insensitive, but they are also not doing any particular work to be inclusive in the subject or topic representation. References to sports and physics in introducing topics has the potential to be exclusionary for students without the needed backgrounds. Overall College Algebra is a fine textbook, totally in line with common standards. Potentially attention grabbing introductory questions are left unanswered. Every section has a few extension questions, but there are few questions that would count as "Rich Mathematical Tasks" or demanding critical thinking.

I do also wish a fully-digital text would provide a larger variety of fully-worked and explained solutions, and drop the convention of only providing answers to odd practice exercises. Too often ideas are introduced and explained via the fully-abstracted form, which only makes sense to readers already fluent in algebra. For a course titled College Algebra, all the topics covered and the level of rigor for those topics are mostly as one would expect.

In addition, the text contains chapters in Analytic Geometry as well as Sequences and Probability. The explanations are thorough yet not overly verbose. Compared to the textbook currently in use by my institution, I would need to supplement a brief section on circles which serves as a reinforcement of the completing-the-square skill. Also, I would need additional linear application problems. All relevant topics considered, there are only minor differences in content depth and breadth.

The content is timeless. The scenarios in which the content is applied are reasonably relevant. As far as I can predict, through the lens of now, the content will age well.

In other words, no references to a fad were found. For example, word problems required no knowledge of Tamagotchi. The clarity of this textbook was excellent. As a litmus test, I like have a text-to-speech program narrate some passages. The text-to-speech program performed admirably. This is not a scientific process, but merely a way to inform my opinion. The presentation of concepts was logical and consistent with other textbooks that share the College Algebra title.

This textbook does a great job of breaking the content down into easily consumable chunks. It has a relatively high ratio of sections per number of pages. If I were to adopt this text, I would increase the number of bookmarks on the PDF so students could quickly get to the exercises at the end of each section. Overall the organization of the text is logical and seems pedagogically justified. The layout is such that the transition from topic-to-topic from within a section and between sections is non-jarring and natural.

Visually they did a nice job of breaking up the content with the use of headings, varying fonts, font styles, and colors.

The inclusion of video links at the end of each section is a nice value added feature. Again, personally, I would add more bookmarks to the PDF version. On a few occasions, I would have preferred the graphs right justified and the corresponding explanations left justified such that the size of the graph could have been increased.

Similarly, there are a few points where I would have preferred the font to be a larger size. This is especially true in the exponential and logarithm sections.

Since I can zoom, this is only a minor inconvenience. Structure-wise I would like to have more white space between paragraphs. I understand this a trade-off between readability vs. For example, the four inequalities at the bottom of page in the PDF version would have been more readable if stacked vertically than listed horizontally.

These are minor issues. Overall the textbook has an attractive aesthetic and is nearly on par with modern retail offerings. I appreciate all the time and effort the creators put into this project. Any instructor teaching a college algebra class will find this text to be the perfect level of comprehensiveness. Some texts try to include too much and some texts leave to much out. With this text you can tell that the authors strive and succeed With this text you can tell that the authors strive and succeed at finding the perfect amount of information to present and discuss when teaching concepts.

The text covers the standard college algebra topics in an order conducive to learning. They start essentially with basics and equations followed by functions and then on to in standard order the five main functions: Linear, Polynomial, Rational, Exponential and Logarithmic.

Following these standard functions are thorough discussions for every optional subject that shows up in different schools under different instructors. Each of these sections cover the material thoroughly and in a completely self-contained manner so as to allow the instructor flexibility of including or not including any of these sections without having to supplement.

A review of many of the examples in the sections and many of the homework problems and the solutions found at the end of the text have turned up no errors not already listed on the errata page. The authors have gone to great lengths to eliminate errors from the text.

The content of college algebra has for the most part remained unchanged for years. This text is adequately relevant to the subject as it is taught today. There are very useful links to youtube videos that explain concepts. These links will have to be monitored for accuracy as the years go by in the event that the author of the videos moves and deletes videos.

I don't anticipate very many updates to the field of algebra, but if there are any, then the authors will be able to easily incorporate those updates in subsequent editions. The book is written in a very clear concise manner that aims to teach in a self-contained manner. Student's will be able to pick up this book and learn from it with little outside supplementation. The jargon and technical terminology is perfect for a text at this level and teaches what needs to be taught.

The authors walk students through learning in the way an instructor might do so in the classroom. This text is very consistent in the language used from section to section. The authors use terminology and symbols consistently from section to section and chapter to chapter. Besides consistency in the language used, the authors have managed to organize the chapters and sections with common fonts, text boxes, and overall layout so that students know what to expect and aren't distracted by the presentation while trying to learn new concepts.

The chapters are appropriately designed and ordered. Each chapter is broken up nicely into sections. The text is sometimes self-referential, however, that is the nature of mathematics and scaffolding of learning is very much apart of that.

The text could be easily reorganized if needed, but I think that the authors have really managed to organize the material in a way that is conducive to learning and I don't see why reorganization except in perhaps very minor instances would be needed. As mentioned before, the advanced chapters following logarithms are self-contained and can be taught in any order skipping chapters without loss of consistency. The order of the topics presented progress from easier to more difficult in a logical manner starting with a strong foundation and building upon that foundation.

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