Precalculus: A Functional Approach to Graphing and Problem Solving prepares students for the concepts and applications they will encounter in future calculus courses. In far too many texts, process is stressed over insight and understanding, and students move on to calculus ill equipped to think conceptually about its essential ideas. This text provides sound development of the important mathematical underpinnings of calculus, stimulating problems and exercises, and a well-developed, engaging pedagogy. Students will leave with a clear understanding of what lies ahead in their future calculus courses. Instructors will find that Smith's straightforward, student-friendly presentation provides exactly what they have been looking for in a text!
- ISBN10 0763782211
- ISBN13 9780763782214
- Publish Date 27 October 2011 (first published 22 February 2010)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Jones & Bartlett Publishers
- Edition 6th ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 770
- Language English