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View larger. Preview this title online. Request a copy. Download instructor resources. Additional order info. An abundance of exercises give students the chance to practice the skills and understand the concepts they need. Section exercises are now grouped by objective, facilitating review. Special exercise types include the following. Warm-up Exercises at the beginning of each section review prior concepts helpful in learning the concepts in the upcoming section. Prep Exercises begin each exercise set to get students thinking about the terminology, rules, and processes corresponding to the section exercises that immediately follow.

Puzzle Problems are mathematical brainteasers that appear at the end of selected exercise sets to encourage creative and critical thinking. These problems usually do not have a formulaic approach to their solutions. A five-step problem solving outline is introduced early in the text. The more difficult application problems in the text follow this outline in order to give students a consistent model for solving problems.

Polynomials are introduced early and intuitively Chapter 3 so that students become familiar with this crucial topic early and can continually reinforce their understanding throughout later chapters. This material can be covered later, if desired, or not at all.

Warning boxes alert students to common mistakes and false assumptions that students often make and explain why these are incorrect. Of Interest boxes are positioned throughout the text to add some excitement to the mathematical material.

Containing trivia or historical notes, Of Interest boxes are designed to enhance the learning process by making concepts fun and interesting. End-of-chapter material provides ample opportunity for students to review. The Chapter Summary is now interactive, with Review Exercises integrated within the summary to encourage active learning and review. Blank fields for each key topic prompt students to complete the corresponding definitions, rules, and procedures.

A key example illustrates each concept. Review exercises immediately follow the summarized material so that the student can apply the skills and concepts for immediate reinforcement. A Cumulative Review follows every chapter, beginning with Chapter 2. New to This Edition.

Learning strategies written by students or recent graduates have been added throughout the text, helping students learn from each other. Chapter openers have been redesigned, giving a brief topical overview of the chapter. Warm-up Exercises at the beginning of each section review previously introduced concepts that will be helpful in learning the concepts in the upcoming section. Exercise sets are now grouped by objective to make it easier for students to connect examples with exercises and facilitate review.

More than new exercises have been added, and real-data exercises and examples have been updated with more current data. New to the Supplements Package: MyWorkbook can be packaged with the textbook or with the MyMathLab access kit and includes the following resources for each section of the text: Key vocabulary terms, and vocabulary practice problems Guided Examples with stepped-out solutions and similar Practice Exercises, keyed to the text by Learning Objective References to textbook Examples and Section Lecture Videos for additional help Additional Exercises with ample space for students to show their work, keyed to the text by Learning Objective Chapter Test Prep Videos allow students to watch instructors work through step-by-step solutions to all the Chapter Test exercises from the textbook.

Standard MyMathLab courses allow instructors to build their course their way, offering maximum flexibility and complete control over all aspects of assignment creation. The new Ready to Go courses provide students with all the same great MyMathLab features, but make it easier for instructors to get started.

Each course includes pre-assigned homework and quizzes to make creating a course even easier. Both course options feature the following items: Pre-made and pre-assigned in the Ready to Go course section-level homework assignments. A Pre-made and pre-assigned in the Ready to Go Course pre- and post- test for every chapter.

A pre-assigned learning styles inventory A guided learning path to walk students through the steps of reading their eText, watching section lecture videos, doing their assignments, and finding extra practice. The Project Portfolio Workbook , which takes students through the mathematics involved in buying and building a home, is now assignable and interactive in MyMathLab.

Keyed to relevant sections of the textbook, this online supplement is designed to be worked throughout the semester, giving students the opportunity to apply the skills as they are learning them in a meaningful context. Students will complete initial skill-based practice problems, before using these skills in a real-world setting, completing project activities such as calculating a mortgage, estimating energy costs, and budgeting for building supplies.

Increased exercise coverage gives students more of the practice they need to master the material. Content Changes Chapter 1 In Section 1. Expanded notation is now shown with words instead of multiplication. This improves the connection with the place value names. Square roots have been eliminated from Chapter 1, which allows it to move along more quickly. They are now introduced in Chapter 2, where it is explained that there are two square roots for every real number—something that could not be conveyed in Chapter 1.

Because square roots no longer appear in Chapter 1, the order of operations agreement in Section 1. Consequently, mnemonic devices are not discussed until Chapter 2, where the order of operations agreement is completed by adding square roots. Section 1. All three statistics concepts are revisited throughout the text. Chapter 2 Additive inverse is now taught in Section 2. This simplifies the topic and places it closer to Section 2.

Expressions such as - - are now taught in Section 2. Students grasp this much better and it makes it easier to teach subtracting polynomials and solving equations in which parentheses follow a minus sign. Chapter 3 Section 3. Combining like terms has been moved from Section 3.

Having an assignment on just combining like terms prior to starting addition and subtraction of polynomials makes teaching those two topics much easier. Also, by placing combining like terms in 3. Chapter 5 In Section 5. The explanation of how to find the Least Common Multiple has been revised to be more visual. In Section 5. These problems often take more time than available at this level, and the geometry problems in this section adequately expose the student to problems with two unknowns.

Chapter 6 Estimating has been added to this chapter. Chapter 7 A more visual approach has been used in explaining how to translate application problems to proportions. This approach helps students see the correct relationships among numerators and denominators.

In Section 7.