Whether for college entrance exams, high school review, or other study, A Review of Algebra by Romeyn Henry Rivenburg is a valuable resource for a student who wants to hone algebra skills.
In most high schools the course in Elementary Algebra is finished by the end of the second year. By the senior year, most students have forgotten many of the principles, and a thorough review is necessary in order to prepare college candidates for the entrance examinations and for effective work in the freshman year in college.
This small book covers:
- Order of operations.
- Factoring.
- Exponents.
- Ratios and progressions.
- Quadratic equations.
- Solving simultaneous equations.
- Radicals.
- And more!
One page is considered a full lesson. And the book does go through these topics very quickly.
Problems are designated as originating from Princeton, Harvard, Cornell, MIT, or the College Entrance Board, among other sources.
In the back of the book are college entrance exams, both timed and not timed, from a variety of universities. These make excellent practice tests.
A student who progresses through these 80 pages over the course of a summer will know his Algebra!
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