Downloads of "Reasonable Basic Algebra"



You can download the Preface individually:

❖   Preface

You can download the chapters individually:

        Part I. - ELEMENTS OF ARITHMETIC

❖   Chapter 1 - Counting Number-phrases
❖   Chapter 2 - Comparisons: Equalities and Inequalities
❖   Chapter 3 - Addition 
❖   Chapter 4 - Subtraction 
❖   Chapter 5 - Signed number-phrases 
❖   Chapter 6 - Co-multiplication, Values

       Part II. - INEQUATIONS AND EQUATIONS PROBLEMS

❖   Chapter 7 - Basic Problems 1 (Counting Numerators) 
❖   Chapter 8 - Basic Problems 2 (Decimal Numerators) 
❖   Chapter 9 - Translation & Dilation Problems 
❖   Chapter 10 - Affine Problems 
❖   Chapter 11 - Double Basic Problem 
❖   Chapter 12 - Double Affine Problems 

        Part III. - LAURENT POLYNOMIAL ALGEBRA

❖   Chapter 13 - Repeated Multiplications and Divisions 
❖   Chapter 14 - Laurent Monomials 
❖   Chapter 15 - Polynomials 1: Addition and Subtraction 
❖   Chapter 16 - Polynomials 2: Multiplication 
❖   Chapter 17 - Polynomials 3: Powers of x0+h 
❖   Chapter 18 - Polynomials 4: Division in Descending/Ascending Order 

❖  Epilogue - Functions 

or you can download 

❖  RBA-Complete Text.pdf   (18.4MB)

or, if you prefer*,

❖  RBA-Complete Text.pdf.sitx  (4.1MB)

*You can download the free Stuffit Expander


If all you want at this point is to see the ancillaries, you can download the following pdf printable files:
❖   All eighteen Homeworks.
❖   All three Review Discussions.
as well as
❖   Three Exams.

If what you want is actually to use the materials with your students, then you might wish not just to print the above pdf files but to generate them yourself so as to be able to use the Control files to configure things. For instance, to get random variants of the questions as well as to decide the order of the questions, text or random, and the form, open or multiple choice.

You can also use the Control File to reformat the questions, but only to a limited extent. There is a Control File for generating the corresponding Reviews and Exams for each one of the three parts of RBA.

There is also a Control File that allows you: In order to configure RBA you will need a LaTeX installation but you do not need to be able to write LaTeX code for the Control Files to do what you want: all will need is just to click here and there according to the detailed instructions provided under ADJUSTMENT TO DOCUMENT, in red, at the top of the corresponding Control File.

All the necessary files are in the Complete RBA Source (216.6MB), which is zipped to hold all the files together.

What if you don't like some of the stuff? Well then you can modify it. For instance, you can easily have fewer or more than twenty-five questions as well as a Comprehensive Final with as many questions you want. Or you can have fewer or more than three Reviews or three Exams and you can write your own questions. The Reviews and the Exams remain automatically synchronized.