Painless Algebra (Barron's Painless) | 
 enlarge | Author: Lynette Long Ph.d.
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  24 reviews
Sales Rank: 13213
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0764134345
Dewey Decimal Number: 512.9
EAN: 9780764134340
ASIN: 0764134345
Publication Date: August 1, 2006
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Product Description
For students who are intimidated by all forms of math, here is a set of easy steps that lead to an understanding of elementary algebra. The author defines all terms, points out potential pitfalls in algebraic calculation, and makes problem solving a fun activity. New in this edition are painless approaches to understanding and graphing linear equations, solving systems of linear inequalities, and graphing quadratic equations.
Barrons popular Painless Series of study guides for middle school and high school students offer a lighthearted, often humorous approach to their subjects, transforming details that might once have seemed boring or difficult into a series of interesting and mentally challenging ideas. Most titles in the series feature many fun-to-solve Brain Tickler problems with answers at the end of each chapter.
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 Algebra November 16, 2008
Excellent service. Book in great condition!! Algebra is NO FUN but we were excited with the illustrations in the book. It will help us to help our 14 year old with her Algebra.
 Great Investment October 24, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this book after visiting my best friend and saw it on her daughter's bookshelf. I read through the book and thought, this would be a great resource for my 7th grader who struggles with math. I purchased the book and gave it to him to use with his math. My son found the book to be very informative and he has it out whenever he is working on math. The book has helped build his confidence in math. I have recommended the book to a friend and would highly recommend the book as a tool for students struggling with Algebra.
Painless Algebra is pretty painless October 5, 2008
Great book! Explains Alegbra in simple, easy to understand terms. Perfect for Middle School (Algebra 1) students.
 Mistakes And Not-So-Painless Problems June 19, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I would like this book a lot more, except: There are mistakes. For example, when asked to graph the coordinate (-4, -2), you go to -4 on the x axis first, then down to -2 on the y axis. She had it backwards. If you don't know what you're doing, and you're taught incorrectly, how are you to learn?
Also, she will present simple information and then give some difficult, and I dare say impossible, problems to solve. If I were learning multiplication, and the teacher threw in fractions, integers, and other things I hadn't learned, I would, of course, get lost. Then my confidence would suffer.
I'm gleaning what I can from this book, but there must be far better ones out there. I don't recommend this.
Outstanding book December 11, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've had to brush up on Algebra (I haven't used it in decades) and this book does an outstanding job. As a previous reviewer noted, the graph (on page 31) pertaining to rational/irrational numbers is; indeed, incorrect but, as far as I can tell, that's about the only error (BTW, the book does describe the difference between the two sets of numbers correctly - only the diagram is wrong).
Generally speaking, the exercises were excellent and so were the explanations. My only criticism are 1), I wish there were more exercises) and 2), all of the answers need to be explained - there are a few "tricky" questions that are very difficult to figure out if one hasn't used Algebra in a long time. It would be very helpful for the author to come up with a workbook that was correlated with each chapter in "Painless Algebra," in order to further reinforce concepts covered.
The final chapter, on quadratic equations (the bane of my algebraic existence) was the only one that provided much grief. As with most things in mathematics, there is more than one way to find a solution. I ended up using solutions found in other books, that were a bit clearer. Of course, that may just be me and I certainly wouldn't use that criticism to prevent others from using this book - overall, "Painless Algebra" was very well written and I would highly recommend it to others.
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