Maths Quest or Essential

[kimmytaaa]

Hi Guys
I want to know your opinion which textbook is better maths quest or essential Cambridge?

[zsteve]

Cambridge. I can't really compare with MQ, but in my experience Essentials has always been the way to go.
Especially if you're an intermediate-advanced student.

[Swagadaktal]

I used the essentials textbook - I found the questions great and most of the explanations really good as well. There were some explanations where i was like and resorted to using an external resource.

Maths quest is really good for explanations apparently - their questions are not as good as essentials though (from what i've heard.)

What do you need from the textbook? Learn the content? Apply the content? Tough questions?
Each tb has its own positives and negatives you know?

[HopefulLawStudent]

I loved the Essentials textbook and used it more than any other textbook (even though I had the Maths Quest textbook also - though I misplaced it after like 3 months because I wasn't using it). Personally found Maths Quest questions too easy though explanations were okay (unlike the Essentials which could sometimes get a bit convoluted and cause more confusion than understanding).

[pi]

We have a thread on this: Generalised Textbook Summaries

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