2 comments about Math for Civil Service Workers.

1. This book was very informative and explained things in a clear and concise manner. I would highly recommend it.



2. This is a great book if you need to review math for any city or state exam. This book provide lots of examples and explains how to do the problems.

1 comments about Mathematics: Applications and Concepts, Course 2, Student Edition (Glencoe Mathematics).

1. This is a good math book, I learn much more interesting stuff from it. I am 12 and am home schooled. This book explains things in a way that is easy to understand. The book looks good and shows how to do the problems clearly

5 comments about 101+ Great Ideas for Introducing Key Concepts in Mathematics: A Resource for Secondary School Teachers.

1. This book is an excellent resource for any math teacher. Rather than focusing on the simple rules and procedures of mathematics, this book brings to light the underlying principles of why many mathematical procedures exist in the first place. I personally use this book when I want to kick my teaching up a notch and really delve into higher order thinking. I used insights from this book to get my kids to discover why math works the way it does. It is great.
   
   One small caveat: this book is not particularly well organized in ready-to-use lesson plan format. Most of the ideas in this book need to be worked with to develop full-blown lessons. But the ideas are good enough that this is not too hard to do.



2. Posamentier has really good ideas that are helpful for high school teachers.



3. The updated second edition of 101+ Great Ideas for Introducing Key Concepts in Mathematics: A Resource for Secondary school Teachers is a 'must' for any who wish more proven classroom practices. Over a hundred strategies for teaching math are arranged by subject matter, with each listing identifying objectives, materials, and procedures. Both hands-on and computer-based approaches are detailed, with plenty of lessons and examples throughout. This comes form a mathematician/professor and a math pioneer and Nobel Prize recipient: from geometry to algebra, teachers will find it packed with ideas.
   
   Diane C. Donovan
   California Bookwatch



4. Some of the ideas in this book I found a tad confusing but there are quite a few great analogies and tricks to make remembering math concepts easier for students. I reccommend this book for any secondary math teacher.



5. The book had some very clever Ideas. A bit too many using math tiles. I dont really enjoy them but there were enough other idea to balance it out.

5 comments about Trigonometry Demystified (TAB Demystified).

1. This is without a doubt, one of the worst books i've ever read on any math subject. The examples in the beginning are moderately straight forward and can be followed but as the book progresses the author becomes increasingly stingy with explanations. The level of straight formula presentation such as in the section on hyperbolic functions is useless. He presents page after page of formula, with no explanation of use. At the end of this useless display, he ask how one would derive a new equation from the previous old ones. Even the explanation given for how to do this is obscure. Each chapter test the aquired knowledge. The answer key is no more than a series of a,b,d,e each indicating which multiple choice answer was correct. He shows NO work for any of the test problems. All in all, this book has been an extremely frustrating experience. It hasn't turned me off my desire to learn math but has helped me to realise their are charlatans in the math world.



2. This book, like many math books, lacks a logical progression and mystifies Trig even more. A person trying to learn it for the first time would just give up and move on to something else.



3. I have been trying to improve my career through re-learning most of the math concepts like geometry, trigonometry, calculus. To do this I have been pursuiting the reviews of books from amazon.com to get the books for.
   
   Another day I have bought this book without reading any comments about it because the other algebra book was fine and from the same publisher I loved. But I am disappointed.
   
   The book starts from the basics and trying to transfer the ideas to you in a as roughly way as possible. Defines sin, cos stuff but never *fully* explains what they really are. And top of them continues to put more un-fully-defined bricks to show how your stability goes far.
   
   I am not recommending it to anyone who tries to learn the concepts and have a feeling about them.



4. Like another reveiwer, I also was very pleased with the Algebra Demystified book. As a long-time math disaster, I was able to test out of remedial Math and start College Algebra with a good foundation as a direct result of Albegra Demystified. After taking College Algebra, I returned to the Demystified Series to ramp me up on Trigonometry. I found that the author simply fails to explain his steps adequately. He makes too many assumptions about knowledge the student will possess. In fact, fresh out of College Algebra with a respectable high B, I was non-plussed after the earliest pages of Trigonometry Demystified, and actually found myself referring to my Algebra/Trigonometry textbook from college to clarify topics.



5. This individual,Stan Gibilisco, continues to write book after book despite his inability to write a math book.
   
   The first book of his that I purchased, Technical Math, was so badly written that it was totally useless. I swore that I would never buy another book by this author.
   
   I evidently forgot his name until I purchased this book. However after starting the first chapter and not believing a math book could be so badly written, his name hit me.
   
   This time fortunately I was able to return the book.
   
   Evidently publishers do not read readers reviews. Or maybe they don't care because some poor sap, that is not familiar with the author, will purchase his book. If they did care, they wouldn't hire him for another book.
   Some of the subjects sound really interesing until you see who the auther is and then you know to forget it....

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4 comments about Math at Hand: A Mathematics Handbook.

1. A sales rep gave me a copy of this book at a summer teacher workshop last year and I will not give this book up for anything! It has been a very valuable and useful tool for me to reference on countless occasions this past school year. The book has great illustrations, tables and an almanac. The charts are colorful and easy to read. I highly recommend this book for any teacher in the intermediate grades. It will not only help you keep your lessons fresh and make your planning time easier, it will also enable you to be an "expert" in mathematics in just a quick glance.



2. This resource is a must have for any teacher or parent of students 4th grade and above. It takes abstract and basic math concepts and breaks them down into simpler steps for a clearer understanding. It makes a great companion to the resource "Math At Hand".



3. Excellent!! The book is very helpful in working with my daughter by supplementing her school work with concrete and fun methods.



4. This is the best math resource for elementary math. It is helpful to teachers, parents and students. Step by step examples are easy to understand. I have recommended this book to many of my students.

1 comments about Mastering Essential Math Skills PRE-ALGEBRA CONCEPTS (Mastering Essential Math Skills).

1. I reviewed all six of the new Mastering Essential Math Skills titles at the 2008 NCTM conference. As a math consultant, I was impressed by all of them. This particular title addresses a very important need. So many students enter their first algebra class with huge gaps in their foundational skills. This book does an excellent job of introducing the pre-algebra skills which are essential to success in algebra. Just like Fisher's original books, each lesson contains review, new material, with instruction, and problem solving. After having gone through this book, students will have the necessary skills to be successful in algebra and beyond. Excellent also for students who are struggling in their pre-algebra or algebra class. Highly recommended. An excellent summer refresher.

5 comments about Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions.

1. Yes, there is some good information and discussion in this book but for the price I would expect it to be more complete. For example, there is absoultely no mention of interactions between two categorical variables. I guess the authors ran out of steam. Also, the writing could have used some more refinement. I'd stick with Jaccard's volumes in the Sage Quantitative Applications series.



2. Back when the book was first published, I was completing doctoral research. Aiken & West provided the explanations and instructions that enabled me to complete my dissertation. Nowhere else have I seen the information they provide; seldom have I seen statistical treatments as clearly and easily explained. Like many in the social sciences, math was not my greatest intellectual ability. This book made computing and understanding regression interactions a relative breeze. One reviewer bemoaned the lack of information on interactions among categorical variables. I suppose he didn't read the preface that specifically explains the reason for the absence: such information is widely available in any good statistical text. What Aiken & West provide can't be found elsewhere in any real depth. I am ordering another copy of the book because I'm tired of loaning out my copy to colleagues, especially one who has now begun to copy whole chapters. Yes, it's that useful.



3. This book takes a very practical approach to the analysis of interactions in regression. No other book I've used has covered these topics as clearly or in as much depth. The extensive discussion of decomposing interactions is a prime example. With the push to replace old techniques of dichotomizing continuous variables with a continuous (regression) treatment of these variables (especially in psychology), this book is extremely important.



4. This book has revolutionized the way psychologists think about interactions. It provides step-by-step instructions on how to probe the moderating effects after you find a significant interaction in a multiple regression.

   The basic idea about interaction is that the relationship between two variables were different according to a third variable. For example, some risk factors (such as poor family income) may affect children's academic achievement in a negative way. However, if the parents provide enough support on their children's study, then it's possible that the risk factors will no longer influence their children test scores. Therefore, with low support, risk factors are very effective, but with high support, risk factors have not effects. This book teaches you how to probe this relationship in a systematic way, it covers 2-way, 3-way interactions and also quardratic relationships.

   If you fully understand this book, the techniques you have will be enough for a masters thesis in your area.




5. You need to read Jaccard and Turrisi's Interaction effects in multiple regression before reaing this book. The authors try to get too fancy with a topic that needs to be explained in a straightforward manner. Not too impressed.....