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.
Within each chapter, examples and explanations are logical and flow easily from easy to more difficult. All navigation links to chapters and sections work well. The links to helpful youtube videos all work as well. The text uses appropriate organization of graphics and text highlighting important concepts in a non-distracting manner. Colors for text, fonts, headings are all appropriate and help to focus the reader's attention to what is truly important.
After reviewing this text for several weeks extensively, I have yet to find a grammatical error. The authors have worked very hard to eliminate errors from this text. The text is not culturally insensitive or offensive in any way, however, there is really not too much effort to include examples or biographies that celebrate other cultures, ethnicities, or lifestyles. For example, using NFL examples are fine for the person that understands football, but this will not benefit students that have now knowledge of the NFL.
If there is any room for improvement in this text this would be the area. Here are some specific things that the book does really well.
The examples in the homework do a great job of including problems that cater to the major areas of mathematics instruction namely: Graphical, analytical, numerical, and verbal. Calculator steps look like they cater to Texas Instruments. I'm not sure how this can be expanded to include other calculator manufacturers. Content-wise, the author does a great job of planting seeds early on for future learning.
For example the authors introduce some simple transformations during the study of linear graphs before formally learning all of the other transformations in a later chapter. Later on, the authors do an exceptional job of teaching transformations including a very important and thorough discussion of how the order of transformations should be considered. This is something usually left out of most texts. The authors seem to have found the perfect placement of this topic.
Discussion of conic sections are very thorough and even include derivations of the standard formulas! Here are a few things that I think the authors could consider for their next edition. The discussion of graphing non-linear inequalities hearkens back to a method used for graphing linear inequalities. However, the only graphing of linear inequalities I could find in the text is in one variable.
There is no real coverage of graphing linear inequalities in two variables in the xy-plane which is really what is needed in order to move to the non-linear case analogously.
Otherwise, the discussion of graphing non-linear inequalities is adequately thorough. Also, as a personal opinion, I don't think that partial fractions belong in a college algebra text.
But if you are going to include such a section, then there should be some sort of discussion as to why you only need constant placeholders when dealing with linear factors in the denominator and why you need linear place holders when you have irreducible quadratics in the denominator. Otherwise the placement right after systems of equations is a perfect application.
Finally, in the matrices section the authors present the shortcut method for finding the determinant of a 3x3 matrix which is fine. The authors then point out that the method and not applicable to higher dimension matrices. The follow this with a statement that determinants of higher dimension matrices should be done with technology due to heavy computation. I plan on adopting this text for my classroom within the next year or so.
Thanks to the authors for the hard work and a wonderful product! The content of the text is quite comprehensive and certainly includes the relevant content that would be expected of a college algebra text.
Some might argue that trigonometric functions should be included in a college algebra text, yet I have Some might argue that trigonometric functions should be included in a college algebra text, yet I have found that most do not. The table of contents in both the online and PDF versions is very useful, considering it provides links that allow you to jump straight to a specific section. The section numbering system, however, is not consistent between the online and PDF versions, causing slight confusion e.
This is because the online version assigns section 1 of each chapter to the introduction, whereas the PDF version assigns section 1 to the first section of actual content, thus causing the two versions to be one section "off" from each other. The index at the end of the book is also very useful, utilizing the links to quickly jump to specific pages where key terms are referenced.
The text appears to be very well done concerning accuracy. Furthermore, the author provides instructors with a quick and easy way to report any errors. Typically, the main "content" of a college algebra text is not going to change over time, therefore the content in this text is up-to-date, relavent, and will not become obsolete any time soon.
The authors do include multiple instances of modern examples within the technology and real-world applications sections of the exercises.
The text is pretty straight-forward with providing relevant content without excess dialogue or commentary. The structure of the text is quite consistent. It is easy to navigate. From an instructor's point of view it should be easy to work through examples with students and provide ample opportunity to assign exercises. As previously mentioned, there is a confusing inconsistency with section numbers between the online and PDF versions.
Otherwise, the navigation is quite user-friendly. The links within the text that allow the user to jump to specific locations in the text as opposed to excessive scrolling and manual searching are quite useful. The authors appear to have gone to great lengths to make this a user-friendly, comprehensive text.
Furthermore, the inclusion of a wide variety of ancillary content for both instructors and students is much appreciated. I look forward to adopting this text for my college algebra sections. College Algebra provides a comprehensive and multi-layered exploration of algebraic principles.
The text is suitable for a typical introductory Algebra course, and was developed to be used flexibly. The modular approach and the richness of content ensures that the book meets the needs of a variety of programs. College Algebra guides and supports students with differing levels of preparation and experience with mathematics. Ideas are presented as clearly as possible, and progress to more complex understandings with considerable reinforcement along the way. A wealth of examples — usually several dozen per chapter — offer detailed, conceptual explanations, in order to build in students a strong, cumulative foundation in the material before asking them to apply what they've learned.
OpenStax College has compiled many resources for faculty and students, from faculty-only content to interactive homework and study guides. Content Accuracy rating: 5 I did not find any errors or bias in the text. Clarity rating: 5 I found this book very easy to read clearly defined new terms as they were introduced. Consistency rating: 5 Overall the book is very consistent. Modularity rating: 4 This book is easily reorganized and divisible especially on the level of the chapters.
Interface rating: 4 I did not have any issue navigating through the book online or in the pdf. Grammatical Errors rating: 5 I did not find any grammatical errors. Cultural Relevance rating: 5 I did not find the text to be culturally insensitive or offensive in any way.
Comments Overall I think this is a great text for a College Algebra course and I will be adopting it in my class! Clarity rating: 5 The text was clear and easy to follow with several color examples. Consistency rating: 5 The framework and consistency of the text is very much in alignment with what I currently use. Modularity rating: 5 The section size of each part appears to be appropriate in my view.
Interface rating: 5 The interface was easy to follow using the online and PDF version of the text. Grammatical Errors rating: 5 No grammatical errors were noted. Cultural Relevance rating: 5 There were no culturally in appropriate issues that I detected.
Comments Answers to all questions at the end of the text is my only suggestion. Content Accuracy rating: 5 Since this text is on that is considered for adoption at my institution it has went through a very in-depth review. Clarity rating: 5 This text is not much different than most other college algebra texts. Consistency rating: 5 After a careful review I found this text to be very consistent with symbols and terminology.
Modularity rating: 4 The sections and chapters were of appropriate length, and only a few chapters directly linked to others. Interface rating: 3 All figures displayed correctly, most links displayed correctly, and all figures were referenced and clearly labeled.
Grammatical Errors rating: 5 I did not find any grammatical errors and examples seem to be worked out correctly. Cultural Relevance rating: 5 I did not find any culturally insensitive or offensive materials in this text. Comments After an in-depth review of this text I feel it covers all the topics and does a great job of explaining with many detailed examples and supporting videos.
Content Accuracy rating: 4 The content is accurate. Clarity rating: 5 Good use of mathematical terminolgy. Consistency rating: 5 This text is consistent in teminology and framework. I did not notcie any issues. Modularity rating: 4 I think some of the content should be reorganized. Interface rating: 4 The interface is appropriate.
Grammatical Errors rating: 5 I did not notice any grammatical errors. Cultural Relevance rating: 5 There are many real world applications that are very good. Comments It would be nice to have pop up video links in the Online version of the book. Content Accuracy rating: 5 Because the textbook is available online, the errata are regularly incorporated in the version that many students access.
Clarity rating: 5 The book is certainly written in an approachable format and provides thorough explanations, often explicitly giving the steps involved in a particular solution. Consistency rating: 5 The terminology is consistent throughout the book, and each chapter is organized in a logical manner. Modularity rating: 5 Much of the material could be selected independently and used to supplement an existing curriculum.
Grammatical Errors rating: 5 As would be expected with any textbook, there are a few minor typos. Cultural Relevance rating: 5 Although the text does not seem to make specific efforts to be particularly inclusive or diverse, it is neither culturally insensitive nor offensive.
Comments 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. Content Accuracy rating: 4 In looking over this text, I did find two errors, one in the solution to Section 3.
Clarity rating: 5 Information is given clearly with terminology explained fully. Consistency rating: 5 The book is extremely consistent in its framework. Interface rating: 5 I found it extremely easy to navigate around from various sections, to problem answers and to media with the click of the mouse. Cultural Relevance rating: 5 I found nothing culturally offensive in this text. Comments I believe this text is a great offering for a College Algebra course and you can't do better than free!
Content Accuracy rating: 5 The textbook contains no errors as I read through the examples, or in the section exercises and their solutions. Clarity rating: 5 The concepts of the textbook are clearly explained. Consistency rating: 5 The text is organized in a logical and consistent format while reading within topics. Interface rating: 5 The chapters can be accessed easily using the table of contents. Grammatical Errors rating: 5 I have not encountered any grammatical errors while reading through the textbook.
Cultural Relevance rating: 5 The textbook is free of any offensive language or anything that will disturb the reader based on cultural relevance. Comments As the prices of many commercial textbooks are rising high, this book will be just a good fit for students who are financially challenged. Content Accuracy rating: 5 Text is accurate. Clarity rating: 4 The text is clear and easy to read.
Consistency rating: 5 The text is consistent. Modularity rating: 5 The text is broken into logical sections comparable to the text that I currently use to teach with. Interface rating: 5 The online textbook is interactive and user friendly.
Grammatical Errors rating: 5 The text is free of grammatical errors. Cultural Relevance rating: 5 The book is not culturally insensitive.
Comments The text is comparable to the book a currently use to teach. Content Accuracy rating: 5 I did not find any math errors.
Clarity rating: 5 The author uses a consistent narrative text that develops learner curiosity. Consistency rating: 5 The Text is internally consistent in terms of terminology and framework with no notable exceptions. Modularity rating: 5 The text is divided into chapters and therefore it would be easy to use only parts of the text.
Cultural Relevance rating: 5 The text is not culturally insensitive or offensive in any way. Content Accuracy rating: 5 The textbook seemed to go through proof reading by many people.
Clarity rating: 4 The text seems more friendly to students to read than a typical textbooks on the market. Consistency rating: 5 From the textbook preface, I found that there are nine additional contributing authors in addition to the main author. Modularity rating: 3 This is a bit too much to asking for the mathematics text.
Interface rating: 4 The textbook has adequate format and spacing. Grammatical Errors rating: 5 I found no serious grammar issues in my scan through review.
Cultural Relevance rating: 4 Mathematics text seldom has cultural issue. Comments Overall, the textbook is adequate to be used or be replaced many commercial textbooks. Content Accuracy rating: 5 I didn't find any grammar or math errors. Clarity rating: 4 The textbook's language is easy to understand. Consistency rating: 5 I didn't find any consistency issues. Modularity rating: 5 The textbook is easily and readily divisible into smaller reading sections that can be assigned at different points within the course.
Interface rating: 2 The following are some good features: Important procedures and strategies are summarized in grey boxes. Grammatical Errors rating: 5 I found no grammar mistakes. Cultural Relevance rating: 3 This textbook has little mentioning of any cultural issues.
Comments The textbook covers regression for linear, exponential and logarithm functions, but not for polynomial functions. Content Accuracy rating: 4 There have been some inaccurate labels and directions in the PDF version that I have not seen in the online version.
Clarity rating: 5 The textbook introduces new concepts and notation in each section with clear explanation. Consistency rating: 5 The text is consistent in layout and approach to topics. Modularity rating: 5 Sections within each chapter break up the material such that it can be covered in a single class session. Interface rating: 4 The interface for both the PDF and the online version work well and navigating around the text with the table of contents is convenient. Grammatical Errors rating: 5 I have not found any grammatical errors in the text book.
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NEW - Instructors who prefer to review at the section level can assign the Enhanced Assignments instead. Learning Guide also available in print format includes: Guided Practice worksheets for each section of the text. That is the case at our college. These are usually the more challenging exercises and they often come from Calculus with the promise that in Calculus, students will be able to solve them without a graphing utility.
If we adopt the text, we might need to address this. The text is clear, well written, technical terminology is used and explained. In any case there is a bit too many of these and when I started the reading of the book, this surprised me. The humorous foot notes, are taking away the possibility of me adding humorous comments in class.
Students now might think, I just read them from the book. If the book just has facts, the instructor can make them more personal, or funny, or more digestible. When the book has the facts and the jokes, it will make it harder for me the instructor to add something more.
I still like the book. These are all well written and correct, they just trail of to lengthy explanations. To be exact, the length is no more then lines, but in a math text, that is usually a lot.
I was already reading the text and looking which sections we can skip and which to include and it seemed to be fairly easy to do, since there are many separate sections that one can choose from.
Since the book is typed in LaTeX the self-referencing issues will be automatically dealt with during the typesetting. Maybe the composition of functions being left only for Chapter5 just in time for inverse functions feels a bit late. Although it was not missing in the flow of the previous chapters. Sometimes the authors venture into more detail that is needed in a basic College Algebra class. But that does not harm the clarity of the text. The only problem I had that when I downloaded the.
Just the first 9 chapters. This is a dilemma all instructors have to address. Using real names and real places or imaginary ones? We all make our choice. Some feel that students will relate to reality better, I believe that imaginary places and names are well within the spirit of the book. All such data is from US of course, since the authors are from there. This would take some effort to change. But textbooks that we normally use also mainly use imperial units.
The version of the text we were provided had the trigonometry chapters cut out This was done simply by clipping the pdf rather than recompiling the latex, so the table of contents and index still reflect the full text, which is silly and In order to cover the material we cover in precalculus the trigonometry sections would need to be put back in. The index is comprehensive, and the pdf is searchable. The background assumed is generally appropriate. There are a few small exceptions, for example students are expected to know polynomial division.
Some common student points of confusion are clarified, though others are not. For example in 1. There are some important issues with regard to intended audience, which will be dealt with more substantially in a later question, but in summary this text seems to be targeted to mathies in spirit not in difficulty despite the fact that in our system such people will have covered this material before university and so will not be in our precalculus classes.
I did not see any errors; however, I did not give a line by line reading so may have missed some errors. I would not view this as a major issue. All computational examples expect a graphing calculator. As far as I have seen these single purpose devices are not used out in the real world, their only benefit seeming to be that some jurisdictions require them in high school so students from these jurisdictions already have them. An open text might be favourable to discussing an open CAS computer algebra system which students could use no matter where they go next, but the standard commercial CASs are also good and widely available choices, and as graphing calculator apps for smart phones mature they will become increasingly viable, not to mention web tools like Wolfram Alpha.
On the positive side, there are many weblinks, to Wikipedia as well as to other sources, particularly to support asides and problems with data. It is quite conversational, and commendable in how well it puts the jargon in context and avoids unnecessary jargon.
It has many asides and comments, mostly in footnotes, which enrich the text but can also be distracting or confusing. Similarly, the conversational style, while generally increasing readability, will be a challenge for some ESL students, particularly along with the jokes and asides which require American cultural knowledge.
I feel that the prose and style of this book is simultaneously its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. I liked reading this book; I would have liked learning out of it when I was first encountering this material. I am particularly mystified by this as the authors are both at community colleges. Is their education system sufficiently different from ours that they get the sort of geeky audience who would appreciate this book?
Ultimately I can only recommend that an instructor looking at this text look at the style and consider whether it fits with their own style and whether it is likely to be appreciated by their students. It makes explicit reference to itself in useful but not excessive ways. It is well structured. The dependencies within the text make sense given the material, and are generally clear.
The order is fairly standard and the authors explain their reasoning behind those deviations from standard order which they use. There are some cases where sections do not flow well, for example section 1. These initial sections are essentially developing background for use in the upcoming chapters on functions, and so by their nature are somewhat disjointed.
The pdf contains useful internal links and external links. The one exception to the professionalism of the text is that certain sections were cut in the pdf we were given, but the latex was not recompiled, so the table of contents and index did not reflect the cuts.
The core material and most problems are purely mathematical. Only some problems and asides touch cultural issues at all. The problems based on real world data are all based on American data. Broadening the sources of data would improve the book. The occasional problems involving units are imperial, not metric. The book makes American cultural references, but generally ones which would also be familiar to Canadian students, such as popular movies.
First, the authors leave some unanswered questions such as some well placed "why? These are great for stronger students but will frustrate those who aren't getting it. Second, I find the matrix chapter weak, but it is not relevant to the precalculus course we offer in any case.
Generally, I find the book very charming, but am concerned that the intended audience may not have the same response to it. College Algebra is an introductory text for a college algebra survey course.
The material is presented at a level intended to prepare students for Calculus while also giving them relevant mathematical skills that can be used in other classes.
The authors describe their approach as "Functions First," believing introducing functions first will help students understand new concepts more completely. Each section includes homework exercises, and the answers to most computational questions are included in the text discussion questions are open-ended.
Graphing calculators are used sparingly and only as a tool to enhance the Mathematics, not to replace it. The authors also offer a Precalculus version of this text, which has two extra chapters covering Trigonometry. Carl Stitz, Ph. Jeff Zeager, Ph. Stitz and Dr. Zeager co-wrote this college algebra textbook with the vision of creating a high-quality, open-source textbook that is within reach and accessible to the average college student.
In recognition of their work, both authors received the prestigious Faculty Innovator Award from the University System of Ohio in Topics are logically presented and one section flows into the next in a logical progression Interface rating: 5 The graphs are very well done Grammatical Errors rating: 5 I'm a math prof. Comments I think it is very well written, flows well, graphs and their explanations are easy to understand. Content Accuracy rating: 4 The content is accurate and error-free and unbiased.
Clarity rating: 3 The text does not present clear and easy to follow explanations and information for the concepts and ideas presented. Consistency rating: 3 The text is consistent in its presentation and approach and use of terminology, which throughout is somewhat outside of the normal way in which these ideas are usually presented. Modularity rating: 3 The text subdivides the topics into appropriate and helpful smaller reading sections.
Interface rating: 4 The book was primarily free of any interface issues. Grammatical Errors rating: 3 Though I did not find grammatical errors to be an issue, the text was lacking in using formal mathematical terminology and descriptions in the presentation of various ideas and concepts. Cultural Relevance rating: 3 I did not see the usefulness or helpfulness of some of the humor and unnecessary comments made in the presentation of the material. Comments I would not elect to use this text for my College Algebra course.
Content Accuracy rating: 5 There did not appear to be any errors in the chapters I reviewed. Clarity rating: 3 Some of the solutions provided for example problems are rather verbose and potentially confusing for students depending on their experience level. Consistency rating: 4 Terminology and tone remain consistent throughout, with no notable exceptions.
Modularity rating: 4 There are many questions at the end of each section, allowing instructors to narrow down a preferred list or to separate specific problems to be used for review materials. Grammatical Errors rating: 5 I did not notice any glaring grammar mistakes in the text. Cultural Relevance rating: 3 There is somewhat of a focus on US data, units, and references, which could be expanded to other countries, systems, or cultures without needing to alter the writing style too much.
Comments The text is solid in its given form, but it may need extensive modification to fit a particular course more effectively. Content Accuracy rating: 4 From the mainstream students' perspective, the content is very accurate. Clarity rating: 4 The text's clarity is nicely done.
Consistency rating: 4 The text constantly adheres to similar terminology and delivery of content. Interface rating: 5 There are no issues with distorted images nor are there any navigation problems with the downloadable. Grammatical Errors rating: 4 I observed very few grammatical errors. Cultural Relevance rating: 3 Some of the examples containing Sasquatch or the Star Wars character Chewbacca take away from the real-world relevance of the text; however, there are no culturally insensitive or offensive remarks in the text in any way.
Comments Certainly there are some College Algebra texts which are written with a more formal focus; however, the concise nature by which this text was penned is respectable. Content Accuracy rating: 5 Content seemed accurate. Clarity rating: 4 The text is clearly written and terminology is explained and defined.
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