Give me a textbook

I want to teach my child something in a systematic way

I want a textbook, but in this age and day

Textbooks for school children well-written are few

I must search online for study material, what else can I do

So I perform a Google search and find information

In bits and pieces, with inaccuracies, to my consternation

I don’t want information bytes, I want the curriculum entire

I want a book from which stepwise understanding we can acquire..

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I look back at my childhood when I would read

Chapters from my textbooks the day before class, I did not need

To search for my course somewhere else (internet was in its infancy)

What I needed to learn I could read in my textbook conveniently

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Maybe I am a generation old, therefore I want a textbook

To build foundational knowledge one should not have to look

For poorly explained material on the internet

Perhaps there is an online textbook I can get..

Many argue that textbooks can seem outdated quite fast

But most principles of school mathematics and science for a long time last

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I remember the textbooks I have over the years read

I wish I could procure them for my child, instead

I search through online courses trying to find

The one that would make the best impression on my child’s mind