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[quote=Anonymous]Is the teacher using it as a primary teaching/learning tool in the class?  Or is it just a supplementary tool for kids to access at home if they need help? Is your daughter's frustration with not being able to complete assignments and it's affecting her grade?  Or is it b/c she's looking for help at home and the book is too difficult to use in that respect?

If it's just an at home resource for your daughter, then tell her not to use it.  Ask the school for a copy of an old Algebra textbook or buy one online somewhere and use that instead.  Or google.  Or use Kahn Academy.  Whatever.

If the teacher is actually assigning work in there and your daughter can't figure out how to find it or complete it b/c the book is too difficult to navigate, then I'd have your daughter sit down with the teacher when she has time and have her basically teach her how to use the textbook.

I spoke to one Algebra teacher here where I teach and she does find the MathSpace book more difficult to work with than the new Discovery Techbook that we are now using in Pre-Algebra.  But she basically just told her students that the book is a resource for them and that the instruction and assignments would be good old fashion pen/paper from her.
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