Portland Community College Faculty
| Digital versions | HTML and PDF |
| PreTeXt source | Yes |
| Exercises | Yes |
| Solutions | Short answers to odd numbered exercises |
| License | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
- Comprehensive text for year long elementary algebra course
- Most exercises available in ready-to-use WeBWorK problem sets
- Checkpoint problems for immediate feedback
- Associated video lessons for most sections of online version
- Course adoption list available
- Print version in three volumes for about $15 each
- For more information and to access online version
This textbook, winner of the 2018 Digital Learning Innovation Award from the Online Learning Consortium, was developed by the mathematics faculty at Portland Community College under the direction of Alex Jordan and Ann Cary with careful attention to accessibility issues. It has been class tested there and is being used elsewhere. The book is offered in three formats: online HTML (or eBook), PDF, and print. The versions are essentially identical, but the eBook version has features unavailable in the other versions such as the video lessons and checkpoint problems with boxes for the student to enter answers and submit them for checking (not grading). In the PDF and print versions the checkpoint problems are followed by worked out solutions.
The various versions are all produced from the same source files written in PreTeXt.
Table of contents:
- Variables, Expressions, and Equations
- Linear Equations and Inequalities
- Graphing Lines
- Systems of Linear Equations
- Exponents and Polynomials
- Radical Expressions and Equations
- Solving Quadratic Equations
- Quantities in the Physical World
- Topics in Graphing
- Factoring
- Functions
- Rational Functions and Equations
- Graphs and Equations