It does not teach proofs, but it does feature optional lessons and exercises for using a graphing calculator. Although the book's appendix adds a section on statistics, this is not included on video. Overall, the course is equivalent to other Algebra I courses, although I expect that most students will find it less challenging than Saxon's. You'll find this less surprising when I tell you that the teacher featured on these tapes, Dana Mosely, has over 15 years of classroom teaching experience and eight years of video instruction experience. There is no fumbling around, no stuttering, no erasures.
Every line is drawn right the first time.
Every word is readable. And since these are not classroom lectures, but delivered directly to the video camera, no time is wasted panning cameras across the classroom or listening to foolish student questions. I starts with about two hours of arithmetic review. The following tapes cover algebra fundamentals, linear equations, graphing linear equations, exponents and polynomials, factoring and solving equations, functions and their graphs, systems of linear equations, rational expressions and equations, radical expressions and equations, and quadratic functions and equations, for a total of 11 tapes. The optional reference text is Elementary Algebra, Second Edition by Larson and Hostetler, published by D.C. Heath in 1995.