College-Prep Introductory Algebra is

designed for college students who demonstrate a deficiency in algebra skills

which are generally taught in a high school algebra I course. The only prereq-

uisite to the text is a moderate degree of proficiency in arithmetic. The nec-

essary arithmetic skills can be reviewed in the Arithmetic Unit. The arithmetic

is incorporated in the Arithmetic Unit rather than Chapter ] of the text, since

the authors maintain that the targeted students should be presented imme-

diately with the integers and vocabulary which these students relate to "al-

gebra" rather than "arithmetic." Students are often turned off and/or

overconfident if they are presented with "arithmetic" rather than "algebra" at

the outset of an algebra course.