Basic College Mathematics

by John Tobey, Jeffrey Slater

This clear, accessible treatment of mathematics features a building-block approach toward problem solving, realistic and diverse applications, and chapter organizer to help users focus their study and become effective and confident problem solvers. The Putting Your Skills to Work and new chapter-end feature, Math in the Media, present readers with opportunities to utilize critical thinking skills, analyze and interpret data, and problem solve using applied situations encountered in daily life. Chapter 7, Geometry, has been extensively revised and re-organized to include a new section 7.1 on angles and new section 7.4 devoted to triangles. Increased coverage of estimating with fractions and decimals with new “To Think About” exercises in Sections 2.5, 2.8, and 3.3 and a new lesson in Section 3.7. Coverage of fractions in Chapter 2 has been expanded as Section 2.6 now begins with a discussion of least common multiples so that the subsequent coverage of least common denominators is more complete; a new lesson on order of operations in Section 2.8 offers readers additional review of these rules and practice applying them to fractions; and a new mid-chapter test on fractions appears after Section 2.5. Percent applications are now covered in two sections (Sections 5.4 and 5.5) to allow for a more patient presentation of this important topic.

682 pages, Paperback

First published December 31, 1969

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[Rabbit {Paint me like one of your 19th century gothic heroines!} · Rating 4 out of 5]

I used this textbook for all my math classes so far, and I'm hoping to keep using it by getting the same professor until I'm no longer in 101 math classes. I also have been using this to practice my math skillz, since I'm not taking another math course until the spring semester. It was pretty expensive (to me!). Each course I had to get a new mathlab code (which was $100+), but the prof was thinking of next semester not using the mathlab, because it can get pricy. I'm hoping to get her for the third class in a row, and we don't need a new mathlab code.