About the Book

This book was created to improve access to materials for Intermediate Pre-Algebra Math 0400 students at Thompson Rivers University (TRU). While I loved the previous textbook that I was using, the hardcopy was expensive, and students were finding the e-copy difficult to navigate.

Several of my colleagues in the University and Employment Preparation Department (UEPrep) had created open-source textbooks for BC Campus and encouraged the rest of us to adopt and/or create open-source materials for our classes. When I couldn’t find an open access textbook that exactly fit the course outcomes and my approaches, I pursued the idea of collecting material from a variety of sources to create a suitable textbook. With the support of the Open Press Team at TRU; my chair, Christine Miller; and my dean, Yasmin Dean, I was given the time and resources to create this textbook.

I want to express my thanks to my TRU colleagues Izabela Mazur and Kim Moshenko, along with the creators of the Fundamental level 2 – 6 textbooks, Wendy Tagami, Leanne Caillier-Smith, Liz Girard, Katherine Arendt, and Mercedes de la Nuez. Drawing on their work, I was able to pull together existing open-source materials to create a new textbook. Over time, my goal is to continue to update and add materials to the textbook, including videos.

This textbook covers most of the learning outcomes listed in the BC Articulation Guide for the first part of Intermediate Level – Algebraic. My hope is that this is a useful contribution to the ABE Open-Source library and that others will be able to use it.