Algebra Textbooks Evaluation

Results of Project 2061 Textbooks Evaluation

Excellent Textbooks

None

Textbooks with the Potential for Helping Students Learn Algebra

• Concepts in Algebra, Everyday Learning Corporation, 1999

• Contemporary Mathematics in Context (CORE-Plus), Everyday Learning Corporation, 1998

• Focus on Algebra, Addison Wesley Longman, 1998

• Interactive Mathematics Program (IMP), Key Curriculum Press, 1997-1999

• MATH Connections: A Secondary Math Core Curriculum, It's About Time, Inc., 1998

• Mathematics: Modeling Our World (COMAP/ARISE), South-Western Educational Publishing, 1998
  (Now published by W.H. Freeman and Company)

• UCSMP Algebra, Scott, Foresman and Company, 1998 

Textbooks with Little Potential for Helping Students Learn Algebra

• Algebra 1: Explorations and Applications, McDougal Littell, 1998

• Algebra 1: Integration, Applications, Connections, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, 1998

• Algebra: Tools for a Changing World, Prentice Hall, 1998

• CORD Algebra 1, South-Western Educational Publishing, 1998

• Integrated Mathematics: A Modeling Approach Using Technology (SIMMS), Simon & Schuster Custom Publishing, 1996-1998

(All books are listed in alphabetical order.)

Continued: Instructional Criteria