Our book is the worst.

Let me give you an example:

Example 4.5 will refer to chart 4.1, which isnt located under Example 4.1 (it doesnt have a chart) but is located under Example 4.3 (20 pages before).

However Example 4.3 doesnt have its own chart.

have a pleasant weekend. , gary

The situation with Stats is out of control. My class was canceled, then I was moved into Busines stats, then they changed teachers...twice. Plus they moved me into a term class (4 weeks and an exam).

The first test I pulled a 99, but the 2nd I am looking at an F.

The situation is so bad, that I will most likely have to drop the class (to get into math stats and avoid a D) and push off clinicals. I hate to do it, but I may have no choice.

In defense of the instructor, the text might unfortunately be a dept decision, so the teacher is stuck using that particular book. In these cases sometimes a faculty member wrote the book and the dept is trying to do a good thing for them - even if it is a crappy book. So if the instructor is any good, they will use a lousy text as little as possible and give the students notes and better examples!

I had a similar situation. We had a dept member that revised a book - it was a bomb to begin with and he did nothing to improve it, but he was 'published' and thought he was something special. He wanted the book to be used by all faculty, but enough of us complained about the poor quality of the book that the chair left the choice of text up to each of us! Needless to say, he was the only one that used his own book LOL!