The Art of Problem Solving, Volume 1: The Basics Solutions Manual

I wish I had this book as a middle school student. I want to keep this book a secret. Let the fact that I gave it 5 stars be sufficient. If you want to know why buy the book I will be selfish and say no more for the same reasons other parents did not share the information about the book

If your kid is (or if you are a kid) doing the MathCounts competition, you need to start here and know all this stuff. This is not the be all end all of your training, but you need to start here. Mastery of this book should put you ahead of 97-98% of the kids in local competitions. In short there are two types of kids in Math competitions: those that do AoPS and those that don't.

I bought this solution manual along with the book for my middle-school kid who is studying math on the more advanced level than regular school stuff. The reason why it is a must have is that some of the problems in the problem book are hard and you might really don't know how to solve them. Overall, the solutions to the problems is clear. It would be super nice if authors can offer different solution paths to same problem so students can see how those different solutions are connected.

This whole series is excellent. I am a retired high school math teacher and currently teach math as an adjunct. The material in all these books is presented in a clear, mathematically rigorous way. I became acquainted with the series in my work with a mathematically gifted student. Working through this and other texts in the series has improved my own problem solving ability.

Got this to give myself a challenge along with the workbook, I like the way it presented the material and the examples were excellent as a senior citizen I really have to thank my teachers who taught me to not be afraid of math from adding and subtracting to calculus. Take the challenge and test yourself.

As you can see, I bought two sets of these books. For the physics son and excellent daughter- quoting the latter: "if you didn't fully get math the first time these will do it for you. Also, you do not need to have done particularly well in math."

Product came with torn Cover. Fed up with the numbers of items I have to return Amazon because of description being wrong, Missing parts and broken things.Book is good and helpful for my kid

The book presents a solid foundation of mathematics. It adds as an extra reference to normal class work. The book is thorough and rigorous. Definitely needs a solution manual