Raymond Barnett,
Merritt College Michael Ziegler,
Deceased Karl Byleen,
Marquette University David Sobecki,
Miami University Hamilton
ISBN: 0073051950 Copyright year: 2009
Feature Summary
Feature: The narrative has been extensively reworked in order to make the language less formal and more engaging for students.
Feature: A new interior design offers a cleaner presentation of concepts and pedagogy.
Feature : More examples featuring side-by-side algebraic and graphical solutions have been added to better integrate solution methods.
Feature: Annotated steps, in small colored type, are used more frequently to walk students through each critical step in the problem-solving process.
Feature: Expanded exercise sets provide additional practice, especially at the easy to moderate levels.
Feature: An Annotated Instructor’s Edition is now available for instructors and provides answers to each problem in the exercise set on the same page as the problem appears.
Feature: The book is accompanied by numerous useful supplements, including McGraw-Hill’s online homework management system, MathZone, which now includes algorithms tied to each even-numbered problem in the text.
Feature: Examples and Matched Problems introduce concepts and demonstrate problem-solving techniques using side-by-side algebraic and graphical solution methods. Each carefully solved example is followed by a similar Matched Problem for the student to work through while reading the material. Answers to the matched problems are located at the end of each section, for easy reference.
Feature: Graphing Calculator Technology is integrated throughout the text for visualization, investigation, and verification. Although technology is employed throughout, the authors strive to balance algebraic skill development with the use of technology as an aid to learning and problem solving.
Feature: Balanced Exercise Sets are constructed so that an average or below-average student will experience success and a very capable student will be challenged. Exercise sets proceed gradually from routine, easy exercises on procedures; through more difficult, but still essential, procedural exercises, to difficult exercises that require combining multiple procedures and/or deeper theoretical understanding.
Feature: Annotated Steps of examples and developments are found throughout the text to help students through the critical stages of problem-solving. Think Boxes (color dashed boxes) are used to enclose steps that, with some experience, many students will be able to perform mentally.
Feature: Applications throughout the 3rd edition give the student substantial experience in modeling and solving real-world problems, fulfilling a primary objective of the text. Over 500 application exercises help convince even the most skeptical student that mathematics is relevant to everyday life.
Feature: Explore-Discuss Boxes are interspersed throughout each section. They foster conceptual understanding by asking students to think about a relationship or process before a result is stated.
Feature: Group Activities at the end of each chapter involve multiple concepts discussed in the chapter. These activities strongly encourage the verbalization of mathematical concepts, results, and processes.
Feature: Foundations for Calculus icons are used to mark concepts that are especially pertinent to a student’s future study of calculus.
2009