About the Book
Students will find many opportunities to check and reinforce their understanding of concepts throughout each chapter:
- NEW! Career Explorations have been integrated throughout the text and MyMathLab course, enabling students to personally investigate future career options while helping to answer the common question, When will I ever use this math in the future?
- Each chapter starts with a Career Opportunities feature that puts the math into context and ends with multiple Career Exploration Problems that are also assignable in MyMathLab.
- Student Practice problems are paired with every example in the text. The full solutions to each practice problem are located in the back of the text, allowing students to check their work as they go.
- End-of-Section Exercises progress from basic to challenging, and each exercise set includes Verbal and Writing Skills, and Mixed Practice exercises.
- UPDATED! Many of the exercises throughout the text have been refreshed, and all of the real-world application problems have been updated.
- A Quick Quiz at the end of each exercise set contains three problems that cover the essential content of that section. This simple assessment tool measures whether students are ready for new material, or need further review.
- A Concept Check question at the end of each Quick Quiz asks students to explain in their own words how and why a method works, forcing them to analyze problems and reflect on the mathematical concepts. All of these are assignable in MyMathLab, and the Concept C