This accessible text is designed to help readers help themselves to excel. The content is organized into two (1) A Library of Elementary Functions (Chapters 1€”2) and (2) Finite Mathematics (Chapters 3€”11). The book’s overall approach, refined by the authors’ experience with large sections of college freshmen, addresses the challenges of teaching and learning when readers’ prerequisite knowledge varies greatly. Reader-friendly features such as Matched Problems, Explore & Discuss questions, and Conceptual Insights, together with the motivating and ample applications, make this text a popular choice for today’s students and instructors.
It's a more a workbook than a textbook. For each section, the readers get a few examples and are then asked to apply the exact steps and approaches to all problems, without any more advanced questions or a change of approach.It's a book that ask you not to think, which sort of defeats the purpose of doing mathematics...