Schaum's Outline of College Algebra

by Robert E. Moyer and Murray R. Spiegel

Book Overview

Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? Fortunately, there's Schaum's. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them succeed in the classroom and on exams. Schaum's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071821813
• ISBN13: 9780071821810
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.1" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Schaum's Outlines

These books have been a part of my education and the education of others since my college days (and before). They are designed for students who desire a very different and far simpler approach. I often recommend them to others who are having difficulty in one of the many fields they cover. I have always been quite impressed with the way that they take any student into the details while keeping things as simple as possible, giving many problems to solve with solutions to all problems.

An excellent book fortextbook support

I bought this book to bolster my knowledge of Algebra concepts while taking precalculus courses at my local college. I found it to be very supportive and supplements the textbook that was assigned to my class.

Great Refresher

I've been away from college for 4 years and did not want to spend a lot of money and time learning the Math I needed to get into Calculus. When I went to the bookstore, what impressed me about this book was the number of solved problems and the additional supplementary(unworked) problems. Also it looked very concise. I got bogged down on some parts because I just didn't get some of the things the author was trying to say, but after I stuck at it and worked through some of the solved problems I never stayed stuck. If you want to get through Algebra fast I do highly recommend this book.

Schaum's College Algebra Outline

Schaum's College Outlines are the best outline/summary/worked problems series that I have every found. Readers, especially students, need to be cautioned, however, that outlines and summaries and worked problems only work usually if you use them right. For example, most students work problems before putting definitions and theorems or equations or theory onto flash cards and learning the latter four first, or they just work problems and forget flash cards for theorems and definitions. Try studying a pile of homework problems as tall as a room before an exam! Multiply this by the number of exams, both in High School (which should be using Schaum's Algebra, by the way) and college, and it spells FAILURE. Problems, even those worked out for you, only are useful AFTER you know exactly what the theorems and definitions say (with one example for each), preferably backwards and forwards and shuffled (as you can only do on flash cards). A card should only have 2 lines or less of ordinary size writing on front and 2 lines on back for rapid shuffling and reading. I'll have more to say about this in other reviews.

Good coverage of College Algebra and then some

I used the college algebra (2nd ed) outline to CLEP (college level exam program) algebra for credit. I also clepped trigonometry using the Schaum Trig outline (2ed). If you studied both outlines really hard it should be adequate preparation for college calculus. The algebra outline probably covers more than what would be covered in a college algebra course; so, you may be able to skip some of the latter chapters depending on your needs. The text also includes a very good table of contents. I have referred back to this text a few times while taking more advaced math classes. It is a very good book/study guide.