Precalculus

Engineers looking for an accessible approach to calculus will appreciate Young’s introduction. The book offers a clear writing style that helps reduce any math anxiety they may have while developing their problem-solving skills. It incorporates Parallel Words and Math boxes that provide detailed annotations which follow a multi-modal approach. Your Turn exercises reinforce concepts by allowing them to see the connection between the exercises and examples. A five-step problem solving method is also used to help engineers gain a stronger understanding of word problems.

The Workshop Precalculus text is part of the successful Workshop Mathematics Project, based at Dickinson College, Pennsylvania. It combines interactive teaching and collaborative learning such that students become active participants in the learning process. In this new text, this proven pedagogy is used to cover topics in precalculus: linear and quadratic functions, and trig functions, for example.

This easy-to-use workbook is full of stimulating activities that will give your students a solid introduction to precalculus! A variety of lessons, puzzles, mazes, and practice problems will challenge students to think creatively as they work to build their precalculus skills. Each lesson begins with a clear explanation of a featured precalculus topic, providing extra review and reinforcement. A special assessment section is included at the end of the book to help students prepare for standardized tests. 48 pages

Engineers looking for an accessible approach to calculus will appreciate Young’s introduction. The book offers a clear writing style that helps reduce any math anxiety they may have while developing their problem-solving skills. It incorporates Parallel Words and Math boxes that provide detailed annotations which follow a multi-modal approach. Your Turn exercises reinforce concepts by allowing them to see the connection between the exercises and examples. A five-step problem solving method is also used to help engineers gain a stronger understanding of word problems.

This is the PreCalculus II including trigonometry, which is the continuation of Pre-Calculus I. The eBook has won the Nevada State Regents' Creative Activities Award on March 2, 2018. The award, established in 1993 by the Nevada State Regents, recognizes significant accomplishments which bring recognition, as well as national and international stature, to the Nevada System of Higher Education. The eBook is designed as a textbook. It is very good for teachers to use as a presentation tool as well. The eBook is very suit to home schooling or self learning as a workbook. Dummies may understand the mathematics through the digital media. To get a free chapter sample, please go to payhip.com/du. The eBook has eight greatest features: 1. Dynamic Links: Readers can navigate the eBook in a very convenient way. By a simple click, the eBook can bring readers to a designated page from the table of contents, index or the cross reference on a page. 2. Video Lectures: The entire eBook content is explained by video lectures. Readers may trigger the video lectures by either clicking on QR code, which is located beside the related content, or by scanning the QR code with their cell phone. The video explanations will show up on the web browser or on their cell phone. 3. Animation: Sketching graphs is presented step by step. For a given function, the eBook shows how a function value is produced for a given independent variable value. With the dotted line pointing to the corresponding point from the calculated xy values, readers can see how one can connect these points smoothly to get the function graph. 4. Toggling Graphs or Texts: Based on needs, readers may determine which context, graph to show up or which context or graph to hide. Teachers can use the eBook to do the presentation. Students can easily understand the book content. Again, readers can always get the assistance from the video explanation by scanning the QR code. 5. Interactive Graphs: Based on the parameters input by readers, the desired different graphs can be produced. 6. Automatic Graded Quizzes: After readers input their answers or make their choice for a given question, readers may see the correct answers for each question. 7. Interactive Tables: Based on readers' needs, a table can be sorted on each column. By doing so, it is very easy to find a maximum, minimum or median value. 8. Other Features: For the important concepts or terminologies, a pop up page will show up. To completely see the features, a Adobe Reader is required.

The PreCalculus eBook has won the Nevada State Regents' Creative Activities Award on March 2, 2018. The award, established in 1993 by the Nevada State Regents, recognizes significant accomplishments which bring recognition, as well as national and international stature, to the Nevada System of Higher Education. The PreCalculus is designed as a textbook. It is also very good for teachers to use as a presentation tool. It fits home schooling or self learning as a workbook. Dummies may understand the PreCalculus through the digital media. To get a free chapter sample, please go to payhip.com/du. The eBook has eight greatest features: 1. Dynamic Links: Readers can navigate the eBook in a very convenient way. By a simple click, the eBook can bring readers to a designated page from the table of contents, index or the cross reference on a page. 2. Video Lectures: The entire eBook content is explained by video lectures. Readers may trigger the video lectures by either clicking on QR code, which is located beside the related content, or by scanning the QR code with their cell phone. The video explanations will show up on the web browser or on their cell phone. 3. Animation: Sketching graphs is presented step by step. For a given function, the eBook shows how a function value is produced for a given independent variable value. With the dotted line pointing to the corresponding point from the calculated xy values, readers can see how one can connect these points smoothly to get the function graph. 4. Toggling Graphs or Texts: Based on needs, readers may determine which context, graph to show up or which context or graph to hide. Teachers can use the eBook to do the presentation. Students can easily understand the book content. Again, readers can always get the assistance from the video explanation by scanning the QR code. 5. Interactive Graphs: Based on the parameters input by readers, the desired different graphs can be produced. 6. Automatic Graded Quizzes: After readers input their answers or make their choice for a given question, readers may see the correct answers for each question. 7. Interactive Tables: Based on readers' needs, a table can be sorted on each column. By doing so, it is very easy to find a maximum, minimum or median value. 8. Other Features: For the important concepts or terminologies, a pop up page will show up. To completely see the features of this PreCalculus, a Adobe Reader is required.

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A strong modelling approach and exposure to the use of functions as models of physical and social behaviour is the focus of this text. By placing emphasis on graphing technology, students are helped to explore mathematics and improve their problem-solving skills.

When these authors found that conventional textbooks just weren't meshing well with the graphing technology they were using in their classes, they went to the drawing board. Precalculus: Concepts in Context takes a fresh look at the content of precalculus and offers students a different approach to learning mathematics. It begins with the real world of experience--music, commerce, psychology, natural science, daily news, etc.--and uncovers the mathematics already present. The study of each new topic begins by examining the concept in a context from which the topic naturally arises.

The chapters in this volume convey insights from mathematics education research that have direct implications for anyone interested in improving teaching and learning in undergraduate mathematics. This synthesis of research on learning and teaching mathematics provides relevant information for any math department or individual faculty member who is working to improve introductory proof courses, the longitudinal coherence of precalculus through differential equations, students' mathematical thinking and problem-solving abilities, and students' understanding of fundamental ideas such as variable and rate of change. Other chapters include information about programs that have been successful in supporting students' continued study of mathematics. The authors provide many examples and ideas to help the reader infuse the knowledge from mathematics education research into mathematics teaching practice. University mathematicians and community college faculty spend much of their time engaged in work to improve their teaching. Frequently, they are left to their own experiences and informal conversations with colleagues to develop new approaches to support student learning and their continuation in mathematics. Over the past 30 years, research in undergraduate mathematics education has produced knowledge about the development of mathematical understandings and models for supporting students' mathematical learning. Currently, very little of this knowledge is affecting teaching practice. We hope that this volume will open a meaningful dialogue between researchers and practitioners toward the goal of realizing improvements in undergraduate mathematics curriculum and instruction.

Barron’s Math 360: Pre-Calculus is your complete go-to guide for everything pre-calculus This comprehensive guide is an essential resource for: High school and college courses Homeschooling Virtual Learning Learning pods Inside you’ll find: Comprehensive Content Review: Begin your study with the basic building blocks of pre-calculus and build as you go. Topics include, algebraic methods, functions and graphs, complex numbers, polynomial and rational functions, and much more. Effective Organization: Topic organization and simple lesson formats break down the subject matter into manageable learning modules that help guide a successful study plan customized to your needs. Clear Examples and Illustrations: Easy-to-follow explanations, hundreds of helpful illustrations, and numerous step-by-step examples make this book ideal for self-study and rapid learning. Practice Exercises: Each chapter ends with practice exercises designed to reinforce and extend key skills and concepts. These checkup exercises, along with the answers and solutions, will help you assess your understanding and monitor your progress. Access to Online Practice: Take your learning online for 50 practice questions designed to test your knowledge with automated scoring to show you how far you have come.

This book presents comprehensive results from case studies of three innovations in mathematics education that have much to offer toward understanding current reforms in this field. Each chapter tells the story of a case in rich detail, with extensi ve documentation, and in the voices of many of the participants-the innovators, the teachers, the students. Similarly, Volume 2 of Bold Ventures pre sents the results from case studies of five innovations in science education. Volume 1 provides a cross-case analysis of all eight innovations. Many U.S. readers certainly will be very familiar with the name of at least if not all of the mathematics innovations discussed in this volume-for one example, the NCTM Standards-and probably with their general substance. Much of the education community's familiarity with these" arises from the pro jects' own dissemination efforts. The research reported in this volume, however, is one of the few detailed studies of these innovations undertaken by researchers outside the projects themselves.

Your step-by-step solution to mastering precalculus Understanding precalculus often opens the door to learning more advanced and practical math subjects, and can also help satisfy college requisites. Precalculus Demystified, Second Edition, is your key to mastering this sometimes tricky subject. This self-teaching guide presents general precalculus concepts first, so you'll ease into the basics. You'll gradually master functions, graphs of functions, logarithms, exponents, and more. As you progress, you'll also conquer topics such as absolute value, nonlinear inequalities, inverses, trigonometric functions, and conic sections. Clear, detailed examples make it easy to understand the material, and end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam help reinforce key ideas. It's a no-brainer! You'll learn about: Linear questions Functions Polynomial division The rational zero theorem Logarithms Matrix arithmetic Basic trigonometry Simple enough for a beginner but challenging enough for an advanced student, Precalculus Demystified, Second Edition, Second Edition, helps you master this essential subject.

This book draws from and analyzes teachers’ and students’ stories of great classes in order to promote teachers’ development of pedagogical tact and to encourage flow states for students. Taken together, these theoretical lenses—pedagogical tact and flow—provide a valuable framework for understanding and motivating classroom engagement. As the authors suggest, tactful teachers are more likely to see their students in flow than teachers who struggle with basic classroom routines and practices. Grounded in narrative research, and written for pre-service teachers, the book offers strategies for replicating these first-hand accounts of peak classroom teaching and learning.

Each year, over 1,000,000 students take college-level courses below calculus such as precalculus, college algebra and others that fulfill general education requirements. Most college algebra courses, and certainly all precalculus courses, were originally intended to prepare students for calculus. Most are still offered in this spirit, even though only a small percentage of students have any intention of taking calculus. This volume examines how the courses below calculus might be refocused to provide better mathematical experiences for all students. This initiative involves a greater emphasis on conceptual understanding with a de-emphasizing on rote manipulation. It encourages the use of realistic applications, math modeling and data analysis that reflect the ways mathematics is used in other disciplines. It promotes the use of active learning approaches, including group work, exploratory activities and projects. It emphasizes communication skills: reading, writing, presenting and listening. It endorses the appropriate use of technology to enhance conceptual understanding, visualization, and to enable students to tackle real-world problems.The 49 papers in this volume seek to focus attention on the problems and needs of the courses and to provide guidance to the mathematics community. Major themes include: new visions for introductory collegiate mathematics, transition from high school to college, needs of other disciplines, research on student learning, implementation issues, and ideas and projects that work.