new Book Recommendations from the CCOTP website

[Tahiya Marome]

David Lippman, a new member who contacted us through collegeopentextbooks.org suggested this book:
Intermediate Algebra
Please take a look, especially you Math instructors, and tell us what you think.

Mr. Lippman says it's a very complete intermediate Algebra book.

[Tahiya Marome]

A HISTORY Textbook currently in use.

Jud Sage, the newest participant in the CCOTP site recommends this History textbook.
Text for History 122, Northern Virginia Community College
He describes how he offers the book to his students.

"I teach on line and needed a text that would be available anywhere at a very low price. Since Lulu is an online, print-on-demand publisher, I found it useful to publish my text through them. The publishing process is fast and easy, and I can update the text any time so that the purchaser always has the latest copy. They have the option of ordering a print copy, downloading a pdf file, or they can access it free on line at www.academicamerican.com, my web site."

[Judy Baker]

I added this Intermediate Algebra textbook to the Project's list of open textbooks at CCCOER and MERLOT. Let me know if you want to do a peer-review for this math textbook.

- Judy

[John Redden]

Looks really well done to me.

This text is licensed under: Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Generic
Would I be able to use some of the material in connexions? It seems the license in CNX is : Attribution 2.0 Generic

If not he might consider the more open license and connexions as a delivery system.

[Tahiya Marome]

A. Shremmer recommends Reasonable Basic Algebra from freemathtexts.org
One premise, according to this submitter is "to react against the prevalent memorization of 'skills'"
Please take a look and post your comments to the site. Thanks!

[David Lippman]

Let me toss in another one: a pre-calculus text from the University of Washington, released under the GNU free document license. Their website includes the text and an archive of former tests.

It is worth noting that they designed this course for students who had good algebra skills, but were not ready for the conceptual and problem-solving requirements of calculus. It was also designed for a 1-quarter course. For a community college with a 2-quarter precalc/trig sequence, and with students who need more algebra review, you would likely need to supplement this with more review, examples, and drill.