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  • Basic College Mathematics: An Applied Approach, 8th Edition
  • Richard N. Aufmann - Palomar College
  • Vernon C. Barker - Palomar College
  • Joanne S. Lockwood - Nashua Community College
  • ISBN-10: 0618503056  ISBN-13: 9780618503056 
  • 704 Pages  Paperback 
  • ©2006     Published
  • College Bookstore Wholesale Price = $152.25  
With its complete, interactive, objective-based approach, Basic College Mathematics is the best-seller in this market. The Eighth Edition provides mathematically sound and comprehensive coverage of the topics considered essential in a basic college math course. Furthermore, the Instructor's Annotated Edition features a comprehensive selection of instructor support material. The Aufmann Interactive Method is incorporated throughout the text, ensuring that students interact with and master the concepts as they are presented. This approach is especially important in the context of rapidly growing distance-learning and self-paced laboratory situations.
  • Study Tips margin notes provide point-of-use advice and refer students back to the AIM for Success preface for support where appropriate.
  • Integrating Technology margin notes provide suggestions for using a calculator in certain situations. For added support and quick reference, a scientific calculator screen is displayed on the inside back cover of the text.
  • Aufmann Interactive Method (AIM) Every section objective contains one or more sets of matched-pair examples that encourage students to interact with the text. The first example in each set is completely worked out; the second example, called 'You Try It,' is for the student to work. By solving the You Try It, students practice concepts as they are presented in the text. Complete worked-out solutions to these examples in an appendix enable students to check their solutions and obtain immediate reinforcement of the concept. While similar texts offer only final answers to examples, the Aufmann texts' complete solutions help students identify their mistakes and prevent frustration.
  • Integrated learning system organized by objectives. Each chapter begins with a list of learning objectives that form the framework for a complete learning system. The objectives are woven throughout the text (in Exercises, Chapter Tests, and Cumulative Reviews) and also connect the text with the print and multimedia ancillaries. This results in a seamless, easy-to-navigate learning system.
  • AIM for Success Student Preface explains what is required of a student to be successful and demonstrates how the features in the text foster student success. AIM for Success can be used as a lesson on the first day of class or as a project for students to complete. The Instructor's Resource Manual offers suggestions for teaching this lesson. Study Tip margin notes throughout the text also refer students back to the Student Preface for advice.
  • Prep Tests at the beginning of each chapter help students prepare for the upcoming material by testing them on prerequisite material learned in preceding chapters. The answers to these questions can be found in the Answer Appendix, along with a reference (except for chapter 1) to the objective from which the question was taken, which encourages students who miss a question to review the objective.
  • Extensive use of applications that use real source data shows students the value of mathematics as a real-life tool.
  • Focus on Problem Solving section at the end of each chapter introduces students to various problem-solving strategies. Students are encouraged to write their own strategies and draw diagrams in order to find solutions. These strategies are integrated throughout the text. Several open-ended problems are included, resulting in more than one right answer and strengthening problem-solving skills.
  • Unique Verbal/Mathematical connection is achieved by simultaneously introducing a verbal phrase with a mathematical operation. Exercises following the presentation of a new operation require that students make a connection between a phrase and a mathematical process.
  • Projects and Group Activities at the end of each chapter offer ideas for cooperative learning. Ideal as extra-credit assignments, these projects cover various aspects of mathematics, including the use of calculators, collecting data from the Internet, data analysis, and extended applications.
  • Eduspace helps instructors take the proven Aufmann Interactive Method to the next level. Eduspace provides instructors with online courses and content in multiple disciplines. By pairing the widely recognized tools of Blackboard with high-quality, text-specific content from Houghton Mifflin, Eduspace makes it easy for instructors to create all or part of a course online. Homework exercises, quizzes, tests, tutorials, and supplemental study materials all come ready to use. Instructors can choose to use the content as is, modify it, or even add their own. Students using Eduspace can review and reinforce concepts with interactive tutorials, prepare for tests using practice exercises, and access all material 24 hours a day.
  • The Instructor's Annotated Edition features a reduced version of the student text with point-of-use instructor resources in the margins. These include Instructor Notes, In-Class Examples, Concept Checks, Discuss the Concepts, Optional Student Activities, Quick Quizzes, Answers to Writing Exercises, and Suggested Assignments, as well as lists of new or review Vocabulary/Symbols/Formulas/Rules/Properties/Equations. Answers to all exercises are also provided.
Richard N. Aufmann
Richard Aufmann is Professor of Mathematics at Palomar College in California. He is the lead author of two best-selling developmental math series, a best-selling college algebra and trigonometry series, as well as several derivative math texts. The Aufmann name is highly recognized and respected among college mathematics faculty.
Vernon C. Barker
Vernon Barker has retired from Palomar College where he was Professor of Mathematics. He is a co-author on the majority of Aufmann texts, including the best-selling developmental paperback series.
Joanne S. Lockwood
Joanne Lockwood is co-author with Dick Aufmann on the hardback developmental series, Business Mathematics, Algebra with Trigonometry for College Students, and numerous software ancillaries that accompany Aufmann titles. She is also the co-author of Mathematical Excursions with Aufmann.
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Note: Each chapter begins with a Prep Test and concludes with a Chapter Summary, Review Exercises, and Test. Chapters 2-6 are followed by Cumulative Review Exercises.
1. Whole Numbers
Section 1.1 Introduction to Whole Numbers
Section 1.2 Addition of Whole Numbers
Section 1.3 Subtraction of Whole Numbers
Section 1.4 Multiplication of Whole Numbers
Section 1.5 Division of Whole Numbers
Section 1.6 Exponential Notation and the Order of Operations Agreement
Section 1.7 Prime Numbers and Factoring
Focus on Problem Solving: Questions to Ask
Projects and Group Activities: Order of Operations, Patterns in Mathematics, Search the World Wide Web
2. Fractions
Section 2.1 The Least Common Multiple and Greatest Common Factor
Section 2.2 Introduction to Fractions
Section 2.3 Writing Equivalent Fractions
Section 2.4 Addition of Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Section 2.5 Subtraction of Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Section 2.6 Multiplication of Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Section 2.7 Division of Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Section 2.8 Order, Exponents, and the Order of Operations Agreement
Focus on Problem Solving: Common Knowledge
Projects and Group Activities: Music, Construction, Fractions of Diagrams
3. Decimals
Section 3.1 Introduction to Decimals
Section 3.2 Addition of Decimals
Section 3.3 Subtraction of Decimals
Section 3.4 Multiplication of Decimals
Section 3.5 Division of Decimals
Section 3.6 Comparing and Converting Fractions and Decimals a fraction
Focus on Problem Solving: Relevant Information
Projects and Group Activities: Fractions as Terminating or Repeating Decimals
4. Ratio and Proportion
Section 4.1 Ratio
Section 4.2 Rates
Section 4.3 Proportions
Focus on Problem Solving: Looking for a Pattern
Projects and Group Activities: The Golden Ratio, Drawing the Floor Plans for a Building, The U.S. House of Representatives
5. Percents
Section 5.1 Introduction to Percents
Section 5.2 Percent Equations: Part 1
Section 5.3 Percent Equations: Part II
Section 5.4 Percent Equations: Part III
Section 5.5 Percent Problems: Proportion Method
Focus on Problem Solving: Using a Calculator as a Problem-Solving Tool, Using Estimation as a Problem-Solving Tool
Projects and Group Activities: Health, Consumer Price Index
6. Applications for Business and Consumers
Section 6.1 Applications to Purchasing
Section 6.2 Percent Increase and Percent Decrease
Section 6.3 Interest
Section 6.4 Real Estate Expenses
Section 6.5 Car Expenses
Section 6.6 Wages
Section 6.7 Bank Statements
Focus on Problem Solving: Counterexamples
Projects and Group Activities: Buying a Car
7. Statistics and Probability
Section 7.1 Pictographs and Circle Graphs
Section 7.2 Bar Graphs and Broken-Line Graphs
Section 7.3 Histograms and Frequency Polygons
Section 7.4 Statistical Measures
Section 7.5 Introduction to Probability
Focus on Problem Solving: Inductive Reasoning
Projects and Group Activities: Deceptive Graphs; Collecting, Organizing, Displaying, and Analyzing Data
8. U.S. Customary Units of Measurement
Section 8.1 Length
Section 8.2 Weight
Section 8.3 Capacity
Section 8.4 Time
Section 8.5 Energy and Power
Focus on Problem Solving: Applying Solutions to Other Problems
Projects and Group Activities: Nomographs, Averages
9. The Metric System of Measurement
Section 9.1 Length
Section 9.2 Mass
Section 9.3 Capacity
Section 9.4 Energy
Section 9.5 Conversion Between the U.S. Customary and the Metric Systems of Measurement
Focus on Problem Solving: Working Backward
Projects and Group Activities: Name that Metric Unit, Metric Measurements for Computers
10. Rational Numbers
Section 10.1 Introduction to Integers
Section 10.2 Addition and Subtraction of Integers
Section 10.3 Multiplication and Division of Integers
Section 10.4 Operations with Rational Numbers
Section 10.5 Scientific Notation and the Order of Operations Agreement
Focus on Problem Solving: Drawing Diagrams
Projects and Group Activities: Deductive Reasoning
11. Introduction to Algebra
Section 11.1 Variable Expressions
Section 11.2 Introduction to Equations
Section 11.3 General Equations: Part I
Section 11.4 General Equations: Part II
Section 11.5 Translating Verbal Expressions into Mathematical Expressions
Section 11.6 Translating Sentences into Equations and Solving
Focus on Problem Solving: From Concrete to Abstract
Projects and Group Activities: Averages
12. Geometry
Section 12.1 Angles, Lines, and Geometric Figures
Section 12.2 Plane Geometric Figures
Section 12.3 Area
Section 12.4 Volume
Section 12.5 The Pythagorean Theorem
Section 12.6 Similar and Congruent Triangles
Focus on Problem Solving: Trial and Error
Projects and Group Activities: Investigating Perimeter, Symmetry

Instructor Supplements

All supplements have been updated in coordination with the Main title.
Please see Main title page for new to this edition information.
Annotated Instructor's Edition(ISBN-10: 0618506802 | ISBN-13: 9780618506804)
Features a reduced version of the student text with point-of-use instructor resources in the margins. These include: Instructor Notes, In-Class Examples, Concept Checks, Discuss the Concepts, Optional Student Activities, Quick Quizzes, Answers to Writing Exercises, and Suggested Assignments, as well as lists of new or review Vocabulary/Symbols/Formulas/Rules/Properties/Equations. Answers to all exercises are also provided.
HM Testing with ClassPrep (ISBN-10: 0618554602 | ISBN-13: 9780618554607)
HM Testing with ClassPrep (Diploma) (ISBN-10: 0618678050 | ISBN-13: 9780618678051)
This package includes both HM ClassPrep and HM Testing. It allows an instructor to access both lecture aids and testing software in one place. These components cannot be ordered separately.
Instructor's Resource Manual with Testing (ISBN-10: 0618520112 | ISBN-13: 9780618520114)
The Instructor's Resource Manual contains eight ready-to-use printed Chapter Tests in two formats--free response and multiple-choice--for each chapter. (These tests are also available on the HM ClassPrep CD and the textbook website.) In addition, the Instructor's Resource Manual includes suggested course sequences and suggestions for presenting AIM for Success: Getting Started as a lesson.
Instructor's Solutions Manual (ISBN-10: 0618506810 | ISBN-13: 9780618506811)
The Instructor's Solutions Manual contains complete worked-out solutions to all exercises in the text.
Practice Sheets (ISBN-10: 0618895132 | ISBN-13: 9780618895137)
These objective-based worksheets, also available on the student website, accompany every section of the text for extra classroom practice or homework. The worksheets can also be packaged or incorporated into custom versions of the text.
List Price = $7.95
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College Bookstore Wholesale Price = $6.00
Student Solutions Manual (ISBN-10: 0618520104 | ISBN-13: 9780618520107)
This ancillary contains complete solutions to odd-numbered exercises in the exercise sets as well as answers to all exercises in the end-of-chapter exercise sets for immediate reinforcement and feedback.
List Price = $73.95
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College Bookstore Wholesale Price = $55.00

Student Supplements

All supplements have been updated in coordination with the Main title.
Please see Main title page for new to this edition information.
Practice Sheets(ISBN-10: 0618895132 | ISBN-13: 9780618895137)
These objective-based worksheets, also available on the student website, accompany every section of the text for extra classroom practice or homework. The worksheets can also be packaged or incorporated into custom versions of the text.
List Price = $7.95
|
College Bookstore Wholesale Price = $6.00
Student Solutions Manual (ISBN-10: 0618520104 | ISBN-13: 9780618520107)
This ancillary contains complete solutions to odd-numbered exercises in the exercise sets as well as answers to all exercises in the end-of-chapter exercise sets for immediate reinforcement and feedback.
List Price = $73.95
|
College Bookstore Wholesale Price = $55.00
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