Foley Books

The "If the Wolf Were an Octopus" books are wonderful tools for involving students in answering questions from Bloom's taxonomy, including: Knowledge, Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis, and Evaluation. This particular book for Grades 5 to 6 lists questions for book titles for those (give or take) grade levels. However, the majority of my students will not have read most of these books: The Secret of Poplar Island, Taking Control, Kipton & Gruff, The Dragon Charmer, Harly Weaver and the Race Across America, For the Love of Gold, They Would Never be Friends, Make Me Disappear, Stray Cat, Ben and Me, etc. I was looking for the "Wolf/Octopus" book containing questions for nursery rhymes such as "Hansel and Gretel".

My daugher has to use this book for 10th grade glass. She likes it though because it shows how to do the problems. You can actually use it to see how to complete an assignment. That seems like a given, but was not the case with previous texts she had to use.

I spent quite a bit of money on this book($74.00). Of course it was listed under the 7th edition, which is the edition my son needed for private school. I received this edition instead(6th). He is unable to use this book so I had to buy the 7th edition from the school which was $143.00. I will never buy another text book from this vendor again. I have spent so much money on private school to begin with, then get hit with buying two books for one class!?!?!?!

We never received this textbook! I would like an email update as to the status.

This book is poor. Try Michael Sullivan's books instead. This book doesn't show you how to do the majority of the problems. I'm mostly flipping through the pages, trying to find the techniques, formulas, etc... but they are not there. I need this book for class (homework), but I'm using Sullivan's books to actually learn the material. If you have to use this book (like me), don't get discouraged. The material isn't difficult (and it's actually enjoyable) if you learn it step by step. This book, unfortunately, is another representation of mathematicians trying to explain easy material in a needlessly complicated way. Get another book before thinking you're not a math person.

I bought this new here because the used listings mention that it may or may not included the CD. Well, guess what - the new version doesn't include the CD either - despite the misleading name of the series (MathXL Tutorials on CD Series).

Just a heads up. The one star review is to draw your attention to this fact. Otherwise, I have no knowledge of it's quality (I needed to buy it for my kid's independent study).

My daugher has to use this book for 10th grade glass. She likes it though because it shows how to do the problems. You can actually use it to see how to complete an assignment. That seems like a given, but was not the case with previous texts she had to use.

I spent quite a bit of money on this book($74.00). Of course it was listed under the 7th edition, which is the edition my son needed for private school. I received this edition instead(6th). He is unable to use this book so I had to buy the 7th edition from the school which was $143.00. I will never buy another text book from this vendor again. I have spent so much money on private school to begin with, then get hit with buying two books for one class!?!?!?!

We never received this textbook! I would like an email update as to the status.

This book is poor. Try Michael Sullivan's books instead. This book doesn't show you how to do the majority of the problems. I'm mostly flipping through the pages, trying to find the techniques, formulas, etc... but they are not there. I need this book for class (homework), but I'm using Sullivan's books to actually learn the material. If you have to use this book (like me), don't get discouraged. The material isn't difficult (and it's actually enjoyable) if you learn it step by step. This book, unfortunately, is another representation of mathematicians trying to explain easy material in a needlessly complicated way. Get another book before thinking you're not a math person.

I bought this new here because the used listings mention that it may or may not included the CD. Well, guess what - the new version doesn't include the CD either - despite the misleading name of the series (MathXL Tutorials on CD Series).

Just a heads up. The one star review is to draw your attention to this fact. Otherwise, I have no knowledge of it's quality (I needed to buy it for my kid's independent study).

My daugher has to use this book for 10th grade glass. She likes it though because it shows how to do the problems. You can actually use it to see how to complete an assignment. That seems like a given, but was not the case with previous texts she had to use.

I spent quite a bit of money on this book($74.00). Of course it was listed under the 7th edition, which is the edition my son needed for private school. I received this edition instead(6th). He is unable to use this book so I had to buy the 7th edition from the school which was $143.00. I will never buy another text book from this vendor again. I have spent so much money on private school to begin with, then get hit with buying two books for one class!?!?!?!

We never received this textbook! I would like an email update as to the status.

This book is poor. Try Michael Sullivan's books instead. This book doesn't show you how to do the majority of the problems. I'm mostly flipping through the pages, trying to find the techniques, formulas, etc... but they are not there. I need this book for class (homework), but I'm using Sullivan's books to actually learn the material. If you have to use this book (like me), don't get discouraged. The material isn't difficult (and it's actually enjoyable) if you learn it step by step. This book, unfortunately, is another representation of mathematicians trying to explain easy material in a needlessly complicated way. Get another book before thinking you're not a math person.

I bought this new here because the used listings mention that it may or may not included the CD. Well, guess what - the new version doesn't include the CD either - despite the misleading name of the series (MathXL Tutorials on CD Series).

Just a heads up. The one star review is to draw your attention to this fact. Otherwise, I have no knowledge of it's quality (I needed to buy it for my kid's independent study).

This is worse than nothing -- droning reading of the Rules, no highlighting of differences between Cal. & Fed rules, impossible to take notes from. Monumental waste of time (and who has time to waste when studying for the bar?)

A rambling, incoherent, and confusing lecture on California evidence by someone (from Ronald Reagan University?) who is clearly reading (in a monotone, boring voice). If you're taking notes, you need to keep pausing because the speaker doesn't repeat anything, as a real lecturer would. Don't expect a PMBR type lecture here. The 4 discs look like they were burned on someone's home PC and do not even come with a case. Don't buy it! Total Garbage.

The book is supposed to be for beginners in PreCalculus, however, many of their examples assume that you have some calculus knowledge. Examples fail to explain the basic steps needed to achieve their results. Book could be good when used by a good teacher, but I recommend self tought students stay away from it, unless, of course, you already know calculus.

As a precalc tutor, I found I could read this book fairly well and follow the steps. However, the average (very bright) student has trouble learning the material from this book.

Often crucial steps are left out so a student has a hard time doing the same problem themselves.

Also the book tends to present only part of the topic and leave much of the real learning to doing the problems. The later problems in each section and many in the chapter review actually are where the real material is covered and students have no idea how to do them because it is not covered in the text. It seems to use the discovery method for teaching. Let the student figure it out, if he can. The treatment of trigonometry is particularly backwards. At the end of the section on oblique triangles, the students are asked to explain the various types of triangles and how to solve them (AAA, SAS, SSA, etc). Why in the world does the book not just teach this in the first place? I much prefer the Schaum guides to this textbook.

I do, however, like the application examples and application problems that are used - give math a real world feel. Many of them are rather hard to do, though, because the book doesn't explain how to do them.

I purchased this product because it was advertised as a comprehensive audio course to become a "certified homeopathy practitioner". It was not as it was advertised: It was not comprehensive. It contains 4 CDs: one has MS word documents and PDF files; the other three are audio. The documents, both the Word and the PDF formats had serious typos; in some cases it was nearly impossible to determine what was supposed to be said. Even the names of some of the homeopathic remedies were spelled wrong.
The audio CDs were short (about 30 minutes each); nearly 1 1/2 CDs discussed the remedies that were on the Word or PDF files. There was a lot of overlap.
What came with the CD set was a small slip of paper saying that to be certified as a "homeopathy practitioner," all you needed to do was send $25 with a 3-page essay about your goals of your future occupation, why you want to practice it, and your approach to ethical consideration. The certification was to come from Ronald Reagan University (at the same address as the publisher and author).
I am a Naturopathic Doctor specializing in Classical Homeopathy--I know what homeopathy is all about. My recommendation is that you save your money and look elsewhere for something more professional that will teach you what you need to learn to be a true certified homeopathic health professional. There are other audio courses from long-standing homeopathic universities. If you are a beginner and want to begin your understanding of homeopathy, consider a book by Ullman, Kent or Hahnemann; these authors are able to impart information in an understandable way without major typos and mispelled remedies.
Best wishes...

I could have learned more than this from 15 minutes of reading an outline. She is basically reading a simple outline, and not a very good one at that.

Avoid!

I could have learned more than this from 15 minutes of reading an outline. She is basically reading a simple outline, and not a very good one at that.

Avoid!

I purchased this book in prep for the Cal.Bar Exam. It is a waste of money, a very boring speaker is basically reading. no pausing. no inflection. Don't bother.