When DD was working through Prentiss Hall everyday math it was soooo bad that she was inspired to work ahead so that she could use a different math series (the high school level had a different publisher). The best thing that I found was buying the CD teacher's edition of the textbook online (Ebay). The teacher's edition was actually not bad, with learning goals for each chapter and the underlying math laid our in a semi-coherent fashion with all the "rules" explicitly stated. It was still not ideal and the order was very jumbled, but it was better. I would print out the 5-10 page "learning goals" section and DD would learn all the math from that. The teacher's edition had quizzes and tests that had answers provided and all the homework answers. This was OK for us because she was not taking these at school.
Not to hijack the thread, but we found numerous errors in all the online homework for all DD's high school STEM classes as well as unpredictable formatting requirements (Example: Maria has 6 bikes that she rents out for $4/hour. If Kim, Julio, and Kadeem rent bikes for 5 hours how much will it cost? _____ Entering 60, $60, $60.00, $60.0, 60.0, 60.00 will eventually get you the answer, but some software allows only one or 2 tries before it is counted wrong. This is after you've made the assumption that they mean the total and not per person or that Kim, Julio, and Kadeem rented all six bikes...)
Drove us round the bend.
