Tried and true, Gustafson and Frisk's BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA teaches solid mathematical skills while supporting the student with careful pedagogy. This text helps students develop the ability to synthesize and conceptualize material by thoroughly integrating coverage of graphing and problem solving without sacrificing manipulative skills. Each book in this series maintains the authors' proven style through clear, no-nonsense explanations, as well as the mathematical accuracy and rigor that only Gustafson and Frisk can deliver. The text's clearly useful applications emphasize problem solving to effectively develop the skills students need for future mathematics courses, such as college algebra, and for real life. BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA is the ideal text for professors who want to eliminate the significant overlap of topics found in separate beginning and intermediate algebra texts. The Fourth Edition of BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA also features a robust suite of online course management, testing, and tutorial resources for instructors and students. This includes BCA/iLrn Testing and Tutorial, vMentor live online tutoring, the Interactive Video Skillbuilder CD-ROM with MathCue, a Book Companion Web Site featuring online graphing calculator resources, and The Learning Equation (TLE), powered by BCA/iLrn. TLE provides a complete courseware package, featuring a diagnostic tool that gives instructors the capability to create individualized study plans. With TLE, a cohesive, focused study plan can be put together to help each student succeed in math.
Clearly written and comprehensive, the seventh edition of Gustafson and Frisk's popular book provides in-depth and precise coverage that is incorporated into a framework of tested teaching strategy. Gustafson and Frisk, both career mathematics educators, combine carefully selected pedagogical features and patient explanation to give students a book that preserves the integrity of mathematics, yet does not discourage them with material that is confusing or too rigorous. Long respected for its ability to help students quickly master difficult problems, this book also helps them develop the skills they'll need in future courses and in everyday life.
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.
Emphasizing the usefulness of mathematics, this thorough, extensive revision offers a direct, easy to comprehend treatment of college algebra. The revision was motivated by the need to better prepare students for the mathematics of the next century. The authors' direct approach is sound, yet not so rigorous that it will discourage students.The highly applied approach features many story problems and real life applications. The Gustafson and Frisk style remains, easy to teach from, easy to learn from because of the book's streamlined development of topics, the correct amount of material in each section, and its no-nonsense, straightforward approach.
Tried and true, Gustafson and Frisk's BEGINNING ALGEBRA teaches solid mathematical skills while supporting the student with careful pedagogy. Each book in this series maintains the authors' proven style through clear, no-nonsense explanations, as well as the mathematical accuracy and rigor that only Gustafson and Frisk can deliver. The text's clearly useful applications emphasize problem solving to effectively develop the skills students need for future mathematics courses, such as college algebra, and for real life. The Seventh Edition of BEGINNING ALGEBRA also features a robust suite of online course management, testing, and tutorial resources for instructors and students. This includes BCA/iLrn Testing and Tutorial, vMentor live online tutoring, the Interactive Video Skillbuilder CD-ROM with MathCue, a Book Companion Web Site featuring online graphing calculator resources, and The Learning Equation (TLE), powered by BCA/iLrn. TLE provides a complete courseware package, featuring a diagnostic tool that gives instructors the capability to create individualized study plans. With TLE, a cohesive, focused study plan can be put together to help each student succeed in math.
Intermediate Algebra, Fourth Edition effectively prepares students for their next mathematics course. The text presents all the topics associated with a second course in algebra, providing students with the foundation in the concepts and skills that they need to master in order to succeed in the next course. This book helps students develop the ability to integrate and conceptualize and make the connections between geometric and algebraic solutions. Topics are introduced from a intuitive perspective. This text successfully meets the needs of a varied student population. Students with less mathematical background will appreciate the non-technical writing of the authors' notes in worked examples, and the review of basic algebra. Students with more skill will appreciate the comprehensive coverage of topics and the challenging problems that appear at the end of exercise sets.
NEW! Get your students up to speed with study skills while they learn course-specific material. This notebook introduces students to the steps they need to take to ensure college success, and then guides them step-by-step through each section of their textbook. Each chapter contains a chapter readiness assessment, fill-in-the-blank course notes, activities, structured note taking guides, end-of-chapter test prep, and helpful study aids. The notebook also contains general tip sheets on note taking, studying, assessing their test scores, and much more. The three-hole punched and perforated format allows students to insert all relevant pages into a 3-ring binder and organize them along with their class notes, homework, review sheets, and tests.
When asked to describe his philosophy and approach, Alan Tussy responded: "In writing INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA, our goal was to develop a 'new generation' mathematics textbook targeted for today's algebra student. Our book is, at its heart, an interactive 'learning system.'" It has been designed to present the material, reinforce major concepts, and test student understanding using a variety of instructional methods and features.
Get the extra practice you need to succeed in your mathematics course with this hands-on Student Workbook. Designed to help you master the problem-solving skills and concepts presented in INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA, 4th Edition, this practical, easy-to-use workbook reinforces key concepts and promotes skill building.
Gustafson and Frisk's books support their strongly held beliefs that mathematicians should maintain high expectations of their students and that every student has the right to every possible opportunity to succeed. Beginning Algebra, Fourth Edition presents a mid-level of mathematical rigor while supporting the student with careful pedagogy. The Fourth Edition effectively prepares students for their next mathematics course, as it presents all the topics associated with a first course in algebra and provides students with the basic skills they'll need in order to succeed in the next course. The structure of each section, the structure of the book, and the various pedagogical features all help students master text. Within each section careful explanation of concepts and processes begins with material the student already knows, then new material is introduced, and in a step-by-step fashion, the new material is built upon in complexity with each successive example. As the book progresses, the mathematical language matures, examples grow less structured, and exercises grow more varied, all on the assumption that the student is growing in mathematical sophistication and ability, as well. The book's mathematical concepts are motivated by need and explained through discussion and example; applications are abundant. Beginning with the first chapter and continuing throughout the text, students must apply newly acquired skills to solve word problems. Each exercise set is followed by a group of review problems.
Algebra can be like a foreign language, but ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA, 5E, gives you the tools and practice you need to fully understand the language of algebra and the "why" behind problem solving. Using Strategy and Why explanations in worked examples and a six-step problem solving strategy, ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA, 5E, will guide you through an integrated learning process that will expand your reasoning abilities as it teaches you how to read, write, and think mathematically. Feel confident about your skills through additional practice in the text and Enhanced WebAssign. With ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA, 5E, algebra will make sense because it is not just about the x...it's also about the WHY.
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