Bob Miller (East Brunswick, NJ) has been a lecturer in Mathematics at City College of New York, a branch of the City University of New York, for more than twenty-eight years.

• TO THE STUDENTChapter 1: Natural Numbers and Introductory TermsChapter 2: Integers Plus MoreChapter 3: First-Degree EquationsChapter 4: Problems with Words: Why So Many Students Have Problems on the SATChapter 5: FactoringChapter 6: Algebraic FractionsChapter 7: Radicals and ExponentsChapter 8: QuadraticsChapter 9: Points, Lines, and PlanesChapter 10: Odds and EndsChapter 11: Miscellaneous MiscellanyAPPENDIX 1: FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, PERCENTS, AND GRAPHSAPPENDIX 2: SETSACKNOWLEDGMENTSABOUT BOB MILLER: IN HIS OWN WORDSINDEX

Bob Miller (East Brunswick, NJ) has been a lecturer in Mathematics at City College of New York, a branch of the City University of New York, for more than twenty-eight years.

• TO THE STUDENTChapter 1: Natural Numbers and Introductory TermsChapter 2: Integers Plus MoreChapter 3: First-Degree EquationsChapter 4: Problems with Words: Why So Many Students Have Problems on the SATChapter 5: FactoringChapter 6: Algebraic FractionsChapter 7: Radicals and ExponentsChapter 8: QuadraticsChapter 9: Points, Lines, and PlanesChapter 10: Odds and EndsChapter 11: Miscellaneous MiscellanyAPPENDIX 1: FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, PERCENTS, AND GRAPHSAPPENDIX 2: SETSACKNOWLEDGMENTSABOUT BOB MILLER: IN HIS OWN WORDSINDEX

Bob Miller (East Brunswick, NJ) has been a lecturer in Mathematics at City College of New York, a branch of the City University of New York, for more than twenty-eight years.

• TO THE STUDENTChapter 1: Natural Numbers and Introductory TermsChapter 2: Integers Plus MoreChapter 3: First-Degree EquationsChapter 4: Problems with Words: Why So Many Students Have Problems on the SATChapter 5: FactoringChapter 6: Algebraic FractionsChapter 7: Radicals and ExponentsChapter 8: QuadraticsChapter 9: Points, Lines, and PlanesChapter 10: Odds and EndsChapter 11: Miscellaneous MiscellanyAPPENDIX 1: FRACTIONS, DECIMALS, PERCENTS, AND GRAPHSAPPENDIX 2: SETSACKNOWLEDGMENTSABOUT BOB MILLER: IN HIS OWN WORDSINDEX