Building on its reputation for accurate content and a unified system of instruction, the Seventh Edition of Bittinger/Beecher’s Developmental Mathematics paperback integrates success-building study tools, innovative pedagogy, and a comprehensive instructional support package with time-tested teaching techniques. Whole Numbers, Fraction Notation, Decimal Notation, Percent Notation, Data, Graphs, and Statistics, Geometry, Introduction to Real Numbers and Algebraic Expressions, Solving Equations and Inequalities, Graphs of Linear Equations, Operations, Factoring, Rational Expressions and Equations, Systems of Equations, Radical Expressions and Equations, Quadratic Equations For all readers interested in Developmental Mathematics.
This book taught me how to do all the math I would have learned between grades 6 and 9 if I paid any attention in school instead of, I dunno, compulsively masturbating. This was the text for my Math 87 class, and since I rarely actually go to school, I basically taught myself everything from this book. And I'm getting an A right now, so I guess it's a pretty good book. However, there are a lot of unnecessary section divisions (for instance, adding and subtracting will be covered seperately from multiplying and dividing for pretty much any new subject -- exponents, binomials, whatever.) And I think I saw the same picture of the author on a treadmill twice. Lame. Still, my precalculus text has a lot to live up to!