Algebra and Trigonometry: Real Mathematics, Real People
By Ron Larson
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ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY: REAL MATHEMATICS, REAL PEOPLE, 7th Edition, is an ideal student and instructor resource for courses that require the use of a graphing calculator. The quality and quantity of the exercises, combined with interesting applications and innovative resources, make teaching easier and help students succeed. Retaining the series' emphasis on student support, selected examples throughout the text include notations directing students to previous sections to review concepts and skills needed to master the material at hand. The book also achieves accessibility through careful writing and design—including examples with detailed solutions that begin and end on the same page, which maximizes readability. Similarly, side-by-side solutions show algebraic, graphical, and numerical representations of the mathematics and support a variety of learning styles. Reflecting its subtitle, this significant revision focuses more than ever on showing students the relevance of mathematics in their lives and future careers.
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Contains fully worked-out solutions to all of the odd-numbered exercises in the text, giving students a way to check their answers and ensure that they took the correct steps to arrive at an answer.
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ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY: REAL MATHEMATICS, REAL PEOPLE, 7th Edition, is an ideal student and instructor resource for courses that require the use of a graphing calculator. The quality and quantity of the exercises, combined with interesting applications and innovative resources, make teaching easier and help students succeed. Retaining the series' emphasis on student support, selected examples throughout the text include notations directing students to previous sections to review concepts and skills needed to master the material at hand. The book also achieves accessibility through careful writing and design—including examples with detailed solutions that begin and end on the same page, which maximizes readability. Similarly, side-by-side solutions show algebraic, graphical, and numerical representations of the mathematics and support a variety of learning styles. Reflecting its subtitle, this significant revision focuses more than ever on showing students the relevance of mathematics in their lives and future careers.
Side-By-Side Examples. Throughout the text, we present solutions to many examples from multiple perspectives-algebraically, graphically, and numerically. The side-by-side format of this pedagogical feature helps students to see a problem can be solved in more than one way and to see different methods yield the same result. The side-by-side format also addresses many different learning styles.
Why You Should Learn It Exercise. An engaging, real-life application of the concepts in the section, this application exercise is typically described in the section opener as a motivator for the section.
Library of Parent Functions. Several elementary and non-elementary functions have been compiled as a Library of Parent Functions to facilitate familiarity with the basic functions. Each function is introduced at the first point of use in the text with a definition and description of basic characteristics. The Library of Parent Functions examples are identified in the title of the example and there is a Review of Library of Parent Functions after Chapter 4. A summary of functions is presented on the inside cover of this text.
Make a Decision. The Make a Decision exercises at the end of selected sections involve in-depth applied exercises in which students work with large, real-life data sets, often creating or analyzing models. These exercises are offered online at LarsonPrecalculus.com.
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