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Bates Math is a Bates Publishing product — not Bates College.
Bates Math is Algebra 1 practice from Bates Publishing. It is not a Bates College program, course, or department.
Who makes Bates Math.
Bates Publishing is a math textbook publisher and the operator of Bates Math. The public catalogue is batespub.com.
The live course is First Course in Algebra by Weeks & Adkins. Bates Math is the practice companion: a guided tutor on problems from that book.
Not Bates College.
People searching for “bates math” sometimes mean the college in Maine. This site is not that. Bates Math does not offer Bates College courses, credit, or admissions.
If you want the publisher, go to Bates Publishing. If you want Algebra 1 practice from the book, stay here.
Bates Publishing
Built by the publisher, not by a third party.
Bates Math is made by Bates Publishing, a math textbook publisher. The material was already there and already good. What it was missing was a way to do ten minutes of it on a bus.
That is the entire premise. We are not trying to replace the book or the teacher. We are trying to make the practice at the back of each chapter something students actually finish.
Our own content
The problems come from books Bates Publishing wrote, edited and printed. There is no licensed question bank underneath this.
Written for classrooms
The wording, the order and the difficulty curve were built for a school year, then adapted for a phone. Not the other way round.
Traceable to the page
Every problem carries the book and chapter it came from, so a teacher can line the app up with what they are teaching this week.
Also on Bates Math
- Algebra 1 practice
Who the course is for and how the tutor works.
- First Course in Algebra
The Weeks & Adkins book behind the app.
- FAQ
College vs publisher, accounts, devices, charges.
- How it works
Textbook practice and the Bates tutor, step by step.
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