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Title: If this is good, then I hate to see what is bad
Review: This book is a poster child for the classic gibberish math book, replete with cloudy phrasing and examples that match the problems maybe 2/3 of the time, and fail you when you really need guidance. Very little plain English, but instead lots of conclusory assertions paired with rattling off of terms that might make the Math Club all giddy, but that leave you scratching your head at what the heck they just told you. Only when you do a few problems do you realize, oh, [point that could have been made much more clearly], is what they were saying! Truly, a horrible book, one that has inspired me to volunteer for my school district's textbook selection committee. One comment above made a particularly excellent point: this book tackles factoring relatively early. Factoring starts off easy, but the water gets deep quickly. This book is an anvil, not a life jacket.
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