Students benefit from this friendly approach to imtermediate algebra that features a more streamlined review of elementary algebra topics, allowing for earlier coverage of intermediate topics. An early introduction to graphing presents foundation for the wide variety of graphing problems throughout the text. Early coverage of functions helps students feel comfortable with the many examples and graphs of functions that occur in subsequent chapters and emphasizes this important topic. Application problems in nearly every section of the text provide students with extensive opportunity for practice, while "One Step Further" exercises offer challenging problems for students to strengthen skills. All operations with fractions are covered in Chapter 1 and fractions are reinforced throughout the text. Section and Chapter Reviews, Chapter Summaries with examples, and Chapter Tests provide excellent review aids and continual skill reinforcement and assessment.
- ISBN10 1322557519
- ISBN13 9781322557519
- Publish Date 1 January 2014 (first published June 1979)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 17 June 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Elsevier Science
- Format eBook
- Pages 584
- Language English