Buying guides: which book?
Several books here cover the same course. These guides say how they differ and which to take, with every figure counted from the books.
By subject
- Which Russian arithmetic course? Kiselev, Kiselev's Systematic Course, Malinin & Burenin, Rashevsky →
Four complete arithmetic courses are in the catalogue. They cover the same subject in different depths and for different readers. Pick one; then add a problem book.
- Which algebra book, with exercises and answers? →
The question buyers ask most about the algebra books is simple: does it have exercises, and are the answers in the book? The courses differ sharply.
- Which trigonometry course? Rashevsky, Rybkin, Davidov, Anoshchenko, Derzhavin →
Five complete plane-trigonometry courses are in the catalogue, from an 81-page short course to a 192-page full course. All place at US grades 10–12 and England Years 10–13.
- Kiselev's Geometry in English: which of the three books? →
Planimetry, Stereometry and the one-volume Elementary Geometry: what each contains, who it suits, which to buy.
The whole course
- Russian math compared with Singapore Math, AoPS, Math Mammoth and Beast Academy →
What each programme is for, where it stops, and which suits which family.
- Which book, which school year →
Every title against US, England and Ontario years, with what each leaves out.
- Where to start →
The proof-based course in order, from arithmetic to university mathematics.