535: Access to Algebra, 605 pages - $79.95

“The day they decided to mix letters with numbers, all hell broke loose!” This book brings understanding, confidence, and skill to exasperated students like the student who voiced this sentiment. Innovative multi-sensory lessons with negative numbers help students go beyond memorized rules to an authentic feel for direction and magnitude. Lessons on squares and roots also use the guided discovery approach to develop fluency backed by understanding. Also addressed: order of operations; commutative, associative, and distributive properties; and other essentials needed for comprehending more complicated equations.