College Algebra
By Richard N. Aufmann, Richard D. Nation
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Accessible to students and flexible for instructors, COLLEGE ALGEBRA, EIGHTH EDITION, incorporates the dynamic link between concepts and applications to bring mathematics to life. By integrating interactive learning techniques, the Aufmann author team helps students to better understand concepts, work independently, and obtain greater mathematical fluency. The Eighth Edition also includes technology features to accommodate courses that allow the option of using graphing calculators. Additional program components that support student success include tutorial practice, online homework, Live Online Tutoring, and Instructional DVDs. The authors' proven Aufmann Interactive Method allows students to try a skill as it is presented in example form. This interaction between the examples and Try Exercises serves as a checkpoint to students as they read the textbook, do their homework, or study a section. In the Eighth Edition, Review Notes are featured more prominently throughout the text to help students recognize the key prerequisite skills needed to understand new concepts.
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Accessible to students and flexible for instructors, COLLEGE ALGEBRA, EIGHTH EDITION, incorporates the dynamic link between concepts and applications to bring mathematics to life. By integrating interactive learning techniques, the Aufmann author team helps students to better understand concepts, work independently, and obtain greater mathematical fluency. The Eighth Edition also includes technology features to accommodate courses that allow the option of using graphing calculators. Additional program components that support student success include tutorial practice, online homework, Live Online Tutoring, and Instructional DVDs. The authors' proven Aufmann Interactive Method allows students to try a skill as it is presented in example form. This interaction between the examples and Try Exercises serves as a checkpoint to students as they read the textbook, do their homework, or study a section. In the Eighth Edition, Review Notes are featured more prominently throughout the text to help students recognize the key prerequisite skills needed to understand new concepts.
Mid-Chapter Quizzes help you assess students' understanding of the concepts studied earlier in the chapter. The answers for all exercises in the Mid-Chapter Quizzes are provided in the Answers to Selected Exercises Appendix, along with a reference to the section in which a particular concept was presented.
A Quantitative Reasoning feature demonstrates math solutions to real-world problems and is compliant with MAA Guidelines and AMATYC 2006 Crossroads Revisited.
Chapter Test Preps summarize the major concepts discussed in each chapter. These Test Preps help students prepare for a chapter test. For each concept there is a reference to a worked example illustrating the concept and at least one exercise in the Chapter Review Exercise Set relating to that concept.
Visualize the Solution, available with both algebraic and graphical solutions when appropriate, are provided to help students visualize the mathematics of the example and to create a link between the algebraic and visual components of a solution.
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