5This book is packed with nearly 400 pages, several instructive examples, hundreds of practice exercises, full solutions to all problems, and helpful explanations. The book begins by discussing what algebra is and develops many essential algebra skills, such as:

• distributing and factoring
• the FOIL method
• cross multiplying
• quadratic equations and the quadratic formula
• how to combine like terms and isolate the unknown
• a variety of rules for working with exponents
• solving systems of equations using substitution, simultaneous equations, or Cramer's rule
• algebra with inequalities

The author, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., has over twenty years of experience teaching math skills to physics students. He prepared this workbook of the Improve Your Math Fluency series to share his strategies for solving algebra problems