What do you think about a math book with only examples ? Please read below for additional details ?

i think you're going to have trouble. i'd guess that other books originally had more examples, but the editors had to decide what would sell. how much would it cost to produce, and how much would people pay. if i had to guess again, i'd guess that you'll be looking at all the books available to make sure you've covered all their bases. is that fair? so, since yous will be larger, how will you pay to produce it, how will you market it, and how much will you charge? mind you, i like the idea of examples. however, marketing is not easy. good luck. btw, i think schools are at fault. calculators should be banned. kids need to write multiplication tables every day for a year. so they're ingrained. and for some years after that tests need to be takes w/o calculators. when my daughter was younger i made up problems for her. 34924053427234974037 (or ? just make sure all the digits are there) x 9 (or x 8 or x 7 or x 6) (i figured out 1-5 weren't necessary.) the other good exercise is to multiply 3 digits x 3 digits, and only write the answer line. all carries must be done mentally. it is, in fact, faster than writing out the intermediate lines, once you've done it a bit. we used to race, and the single line answer always won.

Lord have mercy. Write one for Elementary Math as well!

Deborah Gough postulate: Perhaps most importantly in today's information age, thinking skills are viewed as crucial for educated persons to cope with a rapidly changing world. Many educators believe that specific knowledge will not be as important to tomorrow's workers and citizens as the ability to learn and make sense of new information. Robinson notes that: While the importance of cognitive development has become widespread, students' performance on measures of higher-order thinking ability has displayed a critical need for students to develop the skills and attitudes of effective thinking. The above mentioned statements are my basic assumptions for education and I still use BLOOM'S TAXONOMY. It categorizes thinking skills from the concrete to the abstract: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, evaluation. Within this framework I see your effort to produce an example book for ALGEBRA with detailed examples at different degrees of difficulty as a possible good addition for the existing methods that are in use. It is also my experience that lots of children need much more examples but also much more questions and assignment to comprehend algebra. The challenge however is to get a good spread of examples and questions, that will cover all the thinking skills from concrete to abstract and to have them synchronized with the textbooks that are most frequently used. The first from an teaching/learning standpoint and the first and second from a business standpoint as it will become more use full for the different schools to use them as your book joins up with their textbook . If you are able to use the BLOOM'S TAXONOMY as a guidance for the production of examples and assignments [ I believe strongly that you should incorporate questions and assignments in your books] then you will have made an important contribution to the learning and teaching settings in the educational field. However if you are able to go one step further and produce also an interactive DVD it will be the best that can be made available for now. I wish you all the best with your efforts.

I teach math as well and I think it is a wonderful idea. The textbook does not have enough examples and another source for them, that would be available to students, would be awesome!! Good Luck!

I think the market for such a book would be very limited. It would not sell at all as a stand-alone book, but would have to be a supplement to an existing textbook (you couldn't use it for more than one textbook because the order and language would be wrong for others, and you would have to relate constantly to the existing text for it to make sense). So you are already limiting the market to those schools which use that one text. Then many of those schools would have limited budgets and would barely be able to afford the text, let alone the supplements, so you are limiting your market to the wealthy schools which would use the one text your book would parallel. I should also mention that such supplements are either written by the authors of the textbooks themselves or by their grad students. I've written one. I think I got paid $200 for many, many hours of work on it. This may be very valuable for your own students, but don't expect much demand beyond that.

That is a wonderful idea. However, I have one fear. Research has found that many of the ways we used to teach Algebra are cumbersome and inefficient. Make sure you do extensive research on teaching methods prior to writing the book. It would be a shame to publish a book that promotes bad teaching or confuses students with multiple ways to solve problems. My district has adopted a program where ALL students learn computation the same way. This has eliminated confusion from year to year with different methods and such. But, GREAT idea, I wish you the best of luck!

I believe it is Everyday Math that has a resource book like that that just has examples of different problems in it.