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Concise Algebra 1
Learn common core high school Algebra 1 after only 30 hours of study. This textbook covers every concept in high school Algebra 1 in only 120 pages.
Typical high school Algebra textbooks can be over 800 pages long, full of complex theorems and postulates. Working as an engineer for a major international shipping company, the author has spent his entire career explaining complex subjects to senior (and highly paid) executives. If he used a “typical math textbook” approach to communicating with executives, he would have lost his job a long time ago.
Executives, it is believed, are very busy – and they need quick and concise explanations to make quick and well-informed decisions. But are high school students any different? Do they have endless time to read 800 pages of postulates and theorems that have no application to modern work? This textbook is written as an anecdote to these problems, and to meet the needs of a modern high school student.
Typical high school Algebra textbooks can be over 800 pages long, full of complex theorems and postulates. Working as an engineer for a major international shipping company, the author has spent his entire career explaining complex subjects to senior (and highly paid) executives. If he used a “typical math textbook” approach to communicating with executives, he would have lost his job a long time ago.
Executives, it is believed, are very busy – and they need quick and concise explanations to make quick and well-informed decisions. But are high school students any different? Do they have endless time to read 800 pages of postulates and theorems that have no application to modern work? This textbook is written as an anecdote to these problems, and to meet the needs of a modern high school student.
113 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 29, 2017
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About the author
Josiah Coates
7 booksJosiah Coates is an engineer living and working in Miami. He has spent his career working as an engineer for major international shipping companies in New York City, Bristol UK, Washington DC, Boston and Miami. He still works full time as an engineer, and is currently writing several math textbooks and technical books to add his experiences to the public domain.
Mr. Coates was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and studied at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY. He also has a masters from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from Duke University. He lives in Miami with his wife and two sons.
Mr. Coates was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, and studied at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, NY. He also has a masters from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from Duke University. He lives in Miami with his wife and two sons.
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November 25, 2018
Helped for SAT a lot
This was a great algebra book that I could actually understand. I have an SAT test coming up, and I finished this book in about a week of small sessions. I almost never read textbooks because they are long, confusing, and only give me practice, not understanding. I wish this book had more content though, because it stoped at factoring equations. Thank you so much!
This was a great algebra book that I could actually understand. I have an SAT test coming up, and I finished this book in about a week of small sessions. I almost never read textbooks because they are long, confusing, and only give me practice, not understanding. I wish this book had more content though, because it stoped at factoring equations. Thank you so much!
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