Elementary Algebra for Schools: Containing a Chapter on Graphs with Answers Paperback – December 5, 2005

This classic Algebra book is perfect for the middle school student who wants to seriously master algebra. For older students I would recommend Webster Wells, though the language in that book is a bit rough compared to modern english.There are alot of exercises and the answers in the back. The benefit to these old texts is that they actually teach algebra and a ton of useful techniques that are simply missing in today's texts. From Binomial Expansion to Evolution and Factoring this will prep your student to really hit Calculus running.This is as the title suggests "Elementary", and the authors do have a follow-up and more advanced book, though I would probably hit Webster after this.

I grew up with this book when I was in high school. This book is as relevant and useful today, as it was then 45 years ago. I thought my sons were not getting a thorough grounding on the concepts and enough challenging problems from the "new age" mathematics books. So I bought this book. They have improved their algebra skills dramatically. Although,some of the word problems are difficult to understand because of the archaic English, still the problems are good and timeless in nature.

I spent numerous hours studying this book when I was in middle school. It is one of the best math books I have ever read.

The book was torn when it arrived. I was expecting a better product!