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Ancillaries

OpenStax projects offer an array of ancillaries for students and instructors. Currently the following resources are available.

  • Instructor’s Solutions Manual
  • Student’s Solutions Manual
  • PowerPoint Slides
  • Answers to Comprehensive Review and Be Prepared Exercises

Additional ancillaries are available specifically to support the content in Prealgebra:

Manipulative mathematics worksheets

manipulative math icon Manipulative Mathematics worksheets are activities through which students develop conceptual understanding of arithmetic and algebraic concepts and procedures. Manipulatives are used to give students concrete models of abstract concepts. These activities are referenced where students tend to have little understanding of mathematical concepts and often rely on poorly memorized procedures.

links to literacy icon With Links to Literacy, students are given the opportunity to read primary-grade-level math-themed children’s literature whose content supports the topics in Prealgebra . Each assignment asks the student to read a book and answer several questions, progressing from re-telling the story to applying the concept to their own lives. The Links to Literacy assignments give our students alternate simple explanations for basic algebraic concepts and show how they apply to common life situations. They fill in the holes in some students’ math backgrounds. They provide evidence students that the basic concepts of algebra are understandable to everyone. They also help students who are not native speakers of English develop fluency with written English and with mathematical vocabulary.

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Online Homework

WebAssign

WebAssign is an independent online homework and assessment solution first launched at North Carolina State University in 1997. Today, WebAssign is an employee-owned benefit corporation and participates in the education of over a million students each year. WebAssign empowers faculty to deliver fully customizable assignments and high quality content to their students in an interactive online environment. WebAssign supports Prealgebra with hundreds of problems covering every concept in the course, each containing algorithmically-generated values and links directly to the eBook providing a completely integrated online learning experience.

XYZHomework

XYZ Homework provides powerful online instructional tools for faculty and students. Our unified learning environment combines online assessment with MathTV.com video lessons to reinforce the concepts taught in the classroom. Randomized questions provide unlimited practice and instant feedback with all the benefits of automatic grading.

About our team

Lead Authors, Senior Content Experts

Lynn Marecek and MaryAnne Anthony-Smith have been teaching mathematics at Santa Ana College for many years and have worked together on several projects aimed at improving student learning in developmental math courses. They are the authors of Strategies for Success: Study Skills for the College Math Student, published by Pearson HigherEd.

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Source:  OpenStax, Prealgebra. OpenStax CNX. Jul 15, 2016 Download for free at http://legacy.cnx.org/content/col11756/1.9
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