Welcome to the use of ALGEBRA I - LINEAR EQUATIONS 1. There are three files on  the disk. You must have all three in this SHAREWARE version.

README    - This is the file you are reading now. It only tells you what 
            each file in the set does and is not needed to run the
            programs. But it handy to know what to do.
ALG11A.PRG - This is the BOOT program for this disk. In the SHAREWARE
             version you must load this PRG file first, read the
             documentation if you want, print it out or print out
             an order form. Or you can just use the arrows to go
             to the MENU and select ALGEBRA I - LINEAR EQUATIONS
             and press ENTER and the main program will run.
ALG11B.PRG - This is the main program and if you have read or printed
             out the documentation then you know the power it has to let
             you configure it for your own uses.

When you register your version (directions are in the BOOT program) you will    receive an updated version, printed documentation, and the program will include all working functions.  THANK YOU AND ENJOY!!!
 
Educational Management Systems - P.O. Box 153 - Huntingtown, MD. 20639
     The  ALGEBRA I SERIES developed by Educational Management
Systems under the guide of Charles O.  Gauthier, Senior Programmer, 
is  based on twenty years of teaching Algebra I  by  Mr.  Gauthier 
from three different text series.

     The program on this disk has many features:

     * The user may store or retrieve the results of any work     
       session to or from disk

     * The user may print worksheets with as many problems as 
       wanted, and each would be different - there is also the
       option to select the help sections to be printed also to
       make them instuctruction worksheets

     * There are three levels of help available with each separate
       problem, and the help is geared toward helping the user to
       understand the specific skill for that particular problem

     * The entire operation of the program is within the user's 
       control - allowing the work session to be as long short as
       the need be

     * The work and program changes use the GEM interface as much
       as possible - for ease of use

     * The user may go to the SELECT menu and make the problems
       more difficult, work more problems, select a higher range
       of digits etc.

     * From the OPTIONS section of the FILE, the user may change
       their name, the date, save a file, input a file, see the
       scores on screen or to the printer, or any of the other
       OPTION functions
     
     * Randomly generated number make each problem in each program
       different - and worksheets with many of the same type of
       problem will ALL be totally unique problems


Detailing each of the separate programs:

LINEAR EQUATIONS -

          There  are 66 different types of linear  equations  that 
range from simple equations like 
                         3X = 12 
to   fractional  equations like these
              X + 2         X - 3
             -------   =   -------
              X + 3         X - 7

If  the  the user cannot solve the equation within the  the  three 
tries given, abnd with the three levels of help presented then the 
user is given the option of printing that exact problem out to the 
printer for future study.  

The five levels of equation solving are:


LEVEL 1 - SIMPLE EQUATIONS

          This  level introduces the multiplication  and  division 
axioms  in  solving  equations  of 8  different  types  of  simple 
equations   ranging  from  3X  =  12  through  a  verbal   problem 
application of the same skills. Use of the commutative property of 
multiplication is also used.

LEVEL 2 - BASIC PROPERTIES

         This area of equation solving introduces the manipulation 
of equations using the process of the additive inverse to solve 14 
different  types  of basic equations ranging from  X + 5  =  7  to 
verbal problems expressing the same properties.

LEVEL 3 - COMBINE LIKE TERMS

          This   section  of  equation  solving   introduces   the 
associative  property of addition,  and through 16  different  and 
progressively more difficult types of equations  that  range  from 
3X  +  X  =  16 to verbal  problems  using  the  same  properties, 
emphasizes the step by step solution of equations.

LEVEL 4 - CLEAR PARENTHESES

           This  part of the program introduces  the  distributive 
property of multiplication over addition and, through 11 different 
kinds  of equations ranging from 3(X + 9) = 42 to verbal  problems 
with  parentheses on both sides of the equal  sign,  stresses  the 
correct steps in finding the simplest form of the equation.

LEVEL 5 - FRACTIONAL EQUATIONS

             This  part  introduces  the  concept  of   fractional 
equations,  applying  all  the  previous  axioms  and  properties. 
Through  a series of equations that range from decimal and  common 
fraction equations through equations with binomial numerators  and 
denominators  there are 7 different types of equations  to  select 
from including verbal problems.