Modern Algebra - Structure and Method Book One

The best high school algebra book ever written. This is an older SMSG text, School Mathematics Study Group, produced as an answer to the Soviet Union's orbiting of Sputnik. The text is concise and to the point, incorporates set theory, symbolic logic, and develops the structure of the subject very well. It prepares students for university study of mathematics. This program was sadly abandoned by so-called educators who came up with emphasizing programmable calculators or using a cookie cutter approach which lost sight of the mathematical structure of the subject. Other approaches such as Saxon resorted to rout review of concepts and lost again the mathematical structure. These older text might well be harder to find, but they are perfect for home schooling students who are not subject to the politics of education. The earliest editions of this series are the best.