Textbook Revolution: Elementary Algebra, 3e, from Totally Free Math

Elementary Algebra, 3e, from Totally Free Math

Wesner, Nustad, Mahler, and Ailawadi

Filed under: [ algebra, high-school, math ]

http://totallyfreemath.com/math.html

Update 25 November 2007-

The totally free math site is offline temporarily while the authors make a new site. It should be back up in mid-December. In the meantime, you can still get the book from Freeload Press (free download, registration required, ads in book): http://www.freeloadpress.com/bookDetail.aspx?bId=1013

TotallyFreeMath.com will eventually have 10 books online, but for now this algebra book, used by millions in its print version, is all that’s available. We’ll add the rest as they are offered. The authors explain:

We are a group of authors who have had a long and successful career in education and publishing. We feel it is time to give something back to the educational community for its commitment to using our textbooks for over 20 years. Several million students have purchased at least one of our textbooks, but you will now be able to start using those same textbooks along with the teacher’s resource material for free.

With the current price of a new algebra textbook approaching $110 and publishers bringing out a new edition every three to four years just to prevent students from selling their used books, we have decided to create a site where the textbooks are free. We wish to share our knowledge of mathematics with anyone who wants to learn new material, increase their current understanding, review previous topics, or just explore mathematics. We hope this will be a useful resource for families doing home schooling, people tutoring mathematics, schools that cannot afford to purchase up-to-date textbooks, and anyone else who can benefit from our materials.

We have posted one of our beginning algebra textbooks linked to student’s solutions manual and instructor’s resource manual. The instructor’s resource manual includes tests, quizzes, syllabus, challenge problems and teaching tips. You will be able to view it on the web, or download the textbook and the solutions as complete sections. As time and resources allow, we will be adding 9 more free textbooks to this site, and the material will always be accessible to even the slowest of Internet connections.

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