Precalculus With Limits

by Ron Larson, Robert P. Hostetler

With the same design and feature sets as the market leading Precalculus, 7/e, this new addition to the Larson/Hostetler Precalculus series provides both students and instructors with sound, consistently structured explanations of the mathematical concepts. Designed for a two-term course, this text contains the features that have made Precalculus a complete solution for both students and interesting applications, cutting-edge design, and innovative technology combined with an abundance of carefully written exercises. In addition to a brief algebra review and the core precalculus topics, Precalculus with Limits covers analytic geometry in three dimensions and introduces concepts covered in calculus.

Side-by-side Example Solutions for select examples include multiple problem solving approaches?such as algebraic, graphical, and numerical?to appeal to a variety of teaching and learning styles.Checkpoints after each Example/Solution refer students to similar drills in the Section Exercises, allowing students to practice and reinforce the concepts they just learned. Answers to Checkpoints are included at the back of the book.New! Vocabulary Checks open every set of Section Exercises. This review of mathematical terms, formulas, and theorems provides regular assessment and reinforcement of students' understanding of algebraic language and concepts.Exercise Sets have been carefully analyzed and revised to improve the categorization of problems from basic skill-building to challenging; improve the pairing of similar odd- and even-numbered exercises; update all real data; and add real-life and real-data applications.New! Make a Decision applications?presented throughout the text at the end of selected exercise sets?are based on large sets of real data. These extended modeling applications give students the opportunity to use all the mathematical concepts and techniques they've learned and apply them to large sets of real date?analyzing it, graphing it, and making conjectures about its behavior. These applications are featured in Eduspace and the Online Learning Center in an interactive format.Eduspace, powered by Blackboard, Houghton Mifflin's online learning environment, brings your students quality online homework, tutorials, multimedia, and testing that correspond to the Precalculus with Limits text. This content is paired with the recognized course management tools of Blackboard.

Genres: Mathematics, Nonfiction

909 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1997

About the author

Roland "Ron" Edwin Larson

Reviews

[kylie · Rating 1 out of 5]

this book was better when i was slamming my head repeatedly into it

[Ryan · Rating 1 out of 5]

I dont like this book. But that may have more to do with the subject than the book.

[Yousseif Abdellatif · Rating 4 out of 5]

The detail that completely flipped my perspective in Precalculus With Limits was how much of a famous disaster came down to people who were too embarrassed to speak up. Ron Larson leaned heavily on transcripts and survivor interviews, and you can feel it in the small, awkward moments, like a junior guy rehearsing a warning in his head and never saying it. The pacing dragged a bit in the technical chapters, which got heavy on diagrams and jargon. Solid pick if you're into how ordinary human hesitation shapes big events.

[Pax · Rating 1 out of 5]

I would rather have a 12 gauge shotgun barrel lodged firmly in my mouth locked in a room full of pipe bombs and rabid squirrels than have the sheer misfortune of ever coming across this book again.

[lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

mehh. pretty boring tbh