This textbook series is designed to be a dynamic classroom companion, supporting both full-class instruction and independent learning, empowering students to learn at their own pace, whether working individually or collaboratively. The author makes each concept easy to understand and engages students in the process of building genuine understanding, rather than memorizing formulas without knowing why they work. With careful pacing, clear explanations, and an answer key for detailed feedback each step of the way, the uniquely scaffolded approach allows students to learn math anywhere, at school or at home.

Written by a teacher with over 20 years of experience, each feature is designed to benefit students. Published as a separate books instead of a single textbook, students feel a sense of achievement when they finish each book, making learning feel less intimidating. Each lightweight book has 2 parts. The first half uses small steps to guide students through the process of constructing each concept, while the second half provides additional practice to reinforce learning and improve retention. Every section includes an answer key to provide teacher-like feedback each step of the way. This curriculum is named Summit Math to reflect the author’s belief that learning is like hiking. Anyone can reach the summit, at their own pace, if they keep taking small steps.

Book description:
In this book, students learn about polynomial expressions and then they use what they have learned about operations with numbers to discover how to add and subtract polynomials. Students use what they have already learned about the distributive property to discover how to multiply binomial and trinomial expressions. They also investigate special cases that occur when multiplying binomials. They explore cases where the product of two binomials is a binomial and they look for patterns that occur when a binomial is multiplied by itself. This book prepares students to learn about factoring in Algebra 1: Book 5.

Book 4 Contents:

• Introduction to polynomials
• Monomials, binomials, and trinomials
• Adding polynomials
• Subtracting polynomials
• Multiplying polynomials: part 1
• Writing polynomials in standard form
• Multiplying polynomials: part 2
• Multiplying binomials to form another binomial
• Squaring a binomial to make a perfect square trinomial
• Polynomial scenarios
• Cumulative Review
• Answer Key