Prentice Hall Mathematics: Algebra 1, Teacher's Edition

I purchased both the teachers edition and the students edition. If you are teaching Algebra this is the series you need. This is Algebra that will prepare the advanced student for college level mathematics. This is the most recommend series for high schoolers to grasp all the knowledge they need for this course. I originally purchased the workbooks that went along with the books, but you do not need them. Get the teachers book and the students, and then you have online access (even if you buy used) to the Pearson (PHSchool) site with worksheets and games for additional learning.

First off, I am a tutor to many Algebra 1 students, including some who take algebra with me for h.s. credit in lieu of taking it at school. I am very familiar w/myriad algebra texts.This book is a jazzier version of the 1994 publishing by Stanley Smith under the Addison Wesley label (owned by the same publishing house as Prentice Hall). I wrote in my review of the 1994 book that my only suggestion would be to take out Chapters 14 & 15 on probability and trig, as they don't really belong in an Alg 1 book. Coincidentally, this book has done exactly that. Hooray!The font, colors, typography, and imagery are more eye-catching than the bland 1994 book, and there are fewer problems of the purely "drill, drill" variety. They've replaced some of those problems with more challenging application problems toward the end of each assignment, but there are still sufficient problems for assigning many practice & drill problems. In fact, most of the problems are exactly the same as in the 1994 text.Overall, it's a nice improvement over the older text. They made it more visually and otherwise interesting *without* sacrificing content, as so many algebra texts do. This alone sets it apart from the majority of US-published algebra texts out there. (I tend to agree with a former teacher of mine when he said that, in his experience, the quality of a text is inversely proportional to the number of pretty pictures in it.) :-)I will continue to refer my students to algebra texts authored by Stanley Smith.

After having just finished Lial Hestwood's prealgebra book, the bar for a good math book had been raised pretty high. Even still, I was surprised by how poorly a book could present simple Algebra concepts. Two weeks into teaching out of this book, I was forced to get a different Algebra book. The explanatory pages are confusing and too brief. The explanations for working with negative numbers was close to useless. The problem sets are adequate. Only the odd answers are in the back of the book and the test page answers are not in the back at all, another negative.

How can a parent go wrong by buying a copy of the Teacher's Edition of their child's Algebra book. Sometimes I need to make sure the help that I am giving to my daughter is correct.

Great parent helper to use with Algebra one.

Great book...I have 2 6th graders that i am tutoring, now using this book. It came as described...a little warn...a little scruffy...but still VERY CAPABLE at helping me achieve my goal. Building Scientist/Engineers/doctors/professionals.....one at a time!

Great Help

Best algebra book I have ever used. Thorough and concise and it explains concepts clearly.