The Cartoon Guide to Algebra: An Illustrated Course for Mastering Algebra with Humor and Real-World Applications (Cartoon Guide Series Book 22)

My daughter has a brilliant mind and has always hated numbers. She has been diagnosed with dyscalculia, and I have spent the last few years trying to help her make peace with and then become friends with numbers. I have spent thousands of dollars on every app, manipulative, curriculum and tutoring and I am here to tell you that this book has been MAGICAL!!!! She is getting it!!!! She agreed that this has been THE MOST productive math curriculum ever. AND.... she says the book makes her laugh. Words can not express the fact that she is discovering any kind of joy in math!!!!!! She has won chess tournaments - I know her strategic brain will be unstoppable when math finally clicks. This book is doing that. I can not give this enough stars! Thank you!!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!!!

Very well organized and written. We used this book to introduce algebra to our 10-year old daughter and it worked quite well for her. It adds more information about each topic gradually and each new chapter uses what the previous chapter taught. Increasing from easy to more complex topics, "The Cartoon Guide To Algebra" is built upon in a very systematic and witty way. A very enjoyable book indeed.

My 8 year old son loves to read it. He finds it interesting because of the pictures and the explanations are simple

purchased as a gift for a student who was having a difficult time with the concepts. Though lacking in the somewhat off-the-wall humour of the Universe series, the presentation is clear and, hopefully, helpful.

While homeschooling my granddaughter during the Covid-19 pandemic I bought this book to help with her math word problems because I can best figure them out using algebra. Mind you I am not a teacher so this book lays out all the fundamentals very well so that my 4th grader can understand them. Her curriculum at school has not introduced algebra but in order for me to teach her I needed this book because i am always thinking in terms of algebraic equations in helping her do her Saxon Math homework. Now she is getting the benefit of algebraic logic early. Thanks Mr. Gonick. I will search your titles for other topics of interest for her. Right now astro physics and astronomy is her interest.

It explains algebraic concepts in a non-math person perspective. It's fantastic that way. It slowly brings you into Algebra without overwhelming and it keeps you entertained. Some of the jokes are a bit cheesy, but overall, it's really quite a funny book, for a math book, and I can't recommend it enough! My 13 year old loved it and wished she had gotten it earlier. She also loved the physics book!!

i got this to see if it would be good for my students. The book begins at a very simple level, probably even a 4th-5th grader would find it understandable. The author is thorough and explains things in memorable ways, with humor. This should be in any high school algebra classroom. It is at too low a level maybe if you're taking College Algebra, but if you go through the whole book in preparation for a college level algebra course, you will be very well prepared!

Two grandchildren taking Algebra. Both have been helped with the use of this book.

I am reading it with my grand child who loves Math and she is in 4 th grade and getting a little concept about algebra in a friendly fashion.

A very good book!

Un libro buenísimo para los que éramos malos en matemáticas y necesitamos una base, también muy bueno para adolescentes a los que les cuesta mucho entender las matemáticas, porque creo que la gran mayoría de los profesores de ciencias son malos profesores. En este cómic se explica muy claramente para que cualquiera con una inteligencia normal pueda entenderlo

From what I read seems really great! Nice way to teach, I think si really effective.

Very elementary.