Intermediate Algebra: Concepts and Applications

by Marvin L. Bittinger, David J. Ellenbogen

The Sixth Edition of Intermediate Concepts and Applications continues to bring your students a best-selling text that incorporates the five-step problem-solving process, real-world applications, proven pedagogy, and an accessible writing style. The Bittinger/Ellenbogen hardback series has consistently provided teachers and students with the tools needed to succeed in developmental mathematics. With this revision, the authors have maintained all the hallmark features that have made this series so successful, including its five-step problem-solving process, student-oriented writing style, real-data applications, and wide variety of exercises. Among the features added or revised are new Aha! exercises that encourage students to think before jumping in to solve a problem, 20% new and added real-data applications, and 50% more new Skill Maintenance Exercises. This series not only provides students with the tools necessary to learn and understand math, but also provides them with insights into how math works in the world around them.

Genres: Nonfiction, Mathematics

716 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Booklist54321 · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good basic Algebra book containing techniques for learning and solving problems with mathematical equations, inequalities, and functions. Algebra is useful for modelling two and three dimensional space, graphs, physics, designing computer algorithms and more.

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked this author's approach to the material.