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[quote=Anonymous]But I was not arguing that they should use a one hundred year old textbook. My argument is that they are not obviously not following a good textbook. A good textbook means that every thing the student should know is in the books. This is absolutely feasible for a subject such as algebra. The fact is we all heard of these students who reviewed for the final and still failed. Something went wrong there.

I actually think this is a problem for math education in general. Either there is no good textbooks available or schools don't want to adopt an existing one, students work on these worksheets at school. And if they miss a concept, there is no way a parent could even help. If there is book , then at least they can review it themselves or the parents can help. I may not remember everything in math, but give me a textbook, I am sure I can figure out most if not all high school math.

This is may be a more prominent problem at the elementary school level. Why are public schools so against text books now? [/quote]

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