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Experiencing Introductory and Intermediate Algebra Through Functions and Graphs (3rd Edition)

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Experiencing Introductory and Intermediate Algebra Through Functions and Graphs (3rd Edition)
JoAnne Thomasson , and Robert Pesut
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Intended for a 2-semester sequence of Introductory and Intermediate Algebra where students get a solid foundation in algebra with early and frequent exposure to functions and an empasis on modeling with full integration of the graphing calculator. The goal is to prepare them for success in College Algebra or their next math course.

Schaum's Outline of Intermediate Algebra

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A highly useful supplement
It's a good introduction to a dreaded subject

Schaum's Outline of Intermediate Algebra
Ray Steege , and Kerry Bailey
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill
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ASIN: 0070608393

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You donÕt need to be a math genius to do well in algebra! This plain-English guide to intermediate algebra explains what algebra is all about, in language thatÕs easy to understand. Then it shows you how to solve every kind of problem that youÕll find on your tests, step-by-step! You get 885 completely worked problems, with each step in their solutions. More than a thousand additional problems let you test your skills, then check the answers. So comprehensive that it can be used alone as a complete independent study course, this solved-problem study guide is the perfect review for college algebra. It even includes instructions on using calculators, as well as effective study skill suggestions!

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Schaum's Outline of Intermediate Algebra.......2007-02-07

Great tool too have, especially if you haven't had Algebra in over 16 years!

Better than elementary.......2006-04-19

This book, I must say, is very good companion for any high school or middle school students who want to master the subject. I like this intermediate algebra better than the elementary one--simply more interesting. But to well prepare yourself for college math/algebra, you only need this book: the most useful problem or resource book that I have ever read in English :
Algebra: A study aid for self-education
ASIN: B0007C0IUS
in my school library. This book is just so useful that every problem is provided with sufficient background information. You can ACTUALLY MASTER the subject by working out the problems ON YOUR OWN--solutions are provided to every problem as well. Moreover, every pair of problems is typical, help you sharpen your skills while teaching you much about it. If you are ambitious and want to get even better in the subject, check it out. It's very user-friendly but very informative and interesting!

Very Happy.......2006-03-01

I purchased this book to make a quick review of Math and help my son. I am so happy that I will buy the entire collection from elementary Algebra to Calculus including Differencial equations, Geometry and Trigonometry. Great help for those who need a solid foundation in Math. You can't go wrong with Schaum's Outline.

A highly useful supplement.......2005-12-02

If you're returning to college after a while and feel rusty, you should have a copy of this book. In it, you will find a concise, clear review of the theory, followed immediately by many problems with detailed solutions. Nothing is worse than in a math class than getting hung up on some idea during the semester. You will fall behind and probably not catch up. Try to work the problems, though, before looking at the answers.

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It's a good introduction to a dreaded subject.......2005-10-09

I'm not a big fan of Algebra, so I was panicking when I found out I had to take it as a prerequisite in college. The Schaum's book is one of our texts. So far, I'm maintaining a high "A" average in the class, and I owe much of it to this book. The explanations are clear, nothing is assumed as far as prior math knowledge yet it is not "dumbed down". The book includes answers to all of the problems. There are two other books I'd recommend for those needing a good Algebra text, besides this one. One is Arithmetic and Algebra Again by Brita Immergut, Jean Burr Smith (ironically a Schaum's Paperback) and Forgotten Algebra by Barbara Lee Bleau. I have all three and they have helped me to finally grasp this frustrating subject.

Intermediate Algebra: Functions and Graphs (with CD-ROM, BCA/iLrn? Tutorial, and InfoTrac®)

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Great CD-Rom!!

Intermediate Algebra: Functions and Graphs (with CD-ROM, BCA/iLrn? Tutorial, and InfoTrac®)
Katherine Yoshiwara , and Bruce Yoshiwara
Manufacturer: Brooks Cole
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Popular with and respected by instructors and students interested in a modeling approach, graphing, or graphing calculators, this book incorporates the benefits of technology and the philosophy of the reform movement into intermediate algebra. In keeping with the NCTM and AMATYC standards, the authors introduce the techniques of algebra in the context of simple applications. Early and consistent emphasis on functions and graphing helps to develop mathematical models, and graphing calculators are incorporated wherever appropriate.

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Great CD-Rom!!.......2007-05-01

Make sure you use the CD. It helps immensely!!! Make sure that your copy has a working CD.

Modeling, Functions, and Graphs: Algebra for College Students (with iLrn? Printed Access Card)

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This Book is Larger than Tolstoy's "War and Peace"

Modeling, Functions, and Graphs: Algebra for College Students (with iLrn? Printed Access Card)
Katherine Yoshiwara , and Bruce Yoshiwara
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The Fourth Edition of Yoshiwara and Yoshiwara's MODELING, FUNCTIONS, AND GRAPHS: ALGEBRA FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS includes content found in a typical algebra course, along with introductions to curve-fitting and display of data. Yoshiwara and Yoshiwara focus on three core themes throughout their textbook: Modeling, Functions, and Graphs. In their work of modeling and functions, the authors utilize the Rule of Four, which is that all problems should be considered using algebraic, numerical, graphical, and verbal methods. The authors motivate students to acquire the skills and techniques of algebra by placing them in the context of simple applications that use real-life data.

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This Book is Larger than Tolstoy's "War and Peace".......2006-09-05

Dear Average Reader,

Math is my best subject, but it might as well be my worst because this is absolutely the worst text book I've ever seen. If I could meet the authors, Mr. and Mrs. Yoshiwara, I would ask them why they believe the best way for a student to learn college algebra is by providing him with an 8.5-by-10.5-inch hardcover text at 2 inches thick containing almost 1000 pages and a CD ROM, an 8.5-by-11-inch softcover "work book" an inch thich with 350 pages, and an 10-by-8-inch softcover "solution manual" another inch thick with 425 pages.

I deduce from these books that college algebra must be the most complicated thing to learn in the history of mankind. In fact, I actually shudder before these books. The reason I shudder is not because I believe algebra must be this difficult, but because I can't think of a worse undertaking than what I'll witness inside these pages.

Forget the $115 + $45 + sales tax price (as of Fall 2006). First, no person in a college program could possibly have enough time in his semester to completely read these books. I seriously doubt anyone would ever attempt, or could be able, to read these books in his entire life. This assessment comes from just the threat of the sheer size of so many pages, and a CD ROM.

Second, the book is merely acceptable at best. For instance, the first question of the first excercise asks how many weeks are between week 5 and week 9? Five, of course. I'll count them: week 5, week 6, week 7, week 8, and week 9. My math teacher insisted I was wrong, but that's not my point: why would anyone publish a textbook so reckless that the answer of its questions must be assumed in definition?

Let me explain. I suggest to my friend we could go get some lunch together. He says he didn't bring much money. So, I take the change out of my pocket and hold it in my hand. Then, I instruct my friend to do the same. I count my money, and he counts his. We add them together and we get our answer. We have just 95 cents BETWEEN the two of us.

Here's another one. There are five people sitting between me and that actor from television. I wasn't counting him, nor me. Following this interpretation means there are three weeks between weeks 5 and 9. That is because weeks 6, 7, and 8 are between weeks 5 and 9: three weeks. Logically, one should not assume an interpretation without facts.

Here's a question similar to one from the book which my class studied. I go to the grocery store for cola. A 2-liter of cola costs $1.70. A 3-liter of cola costs $2.25. Therefore, the 2-liter is 85 cents per liter, and the 3-liter is 75 cents per liter. Because the price of the 3-liter is a better bargain, I go to the cashier. I pay 75 cents and leave. Since it's impossible for anyone to buy one liter from a 3-liter, I know this math doesn't account for the view of who's doing the shopping.

Here's a math problem not in the Yoshiwara text. A doctor once asked the mathematician and philosopher Bertrand Russell a question. He asked, "Where does it hurt?" Russell says, "In my mind." This book will be doing that, too.

Here's a math question from the book. What is the cost of 10 feet of fabric at $5.79 per yard? It's an easy question to answer: $19.30. But, this same question in the book, Excercise A.1, number 5, reads exactly like this:

Question 5. Dress fabric is sold (from bolts with a standard width) for $5.79 per yard.
a. Write an expression for the nubmer of yards of fabric in terms of the number of feet of the fabric. (There are 3 feet in a yard.)
b. Write an expression for the cost of the fabric in terms of the number of feet.
c. Find the cost of 10 feet of fabric.

Let me give you MY VERSION of this question a second time.

Question 5. "What is the cost of 10 feet of fabric at $5.79 per yard?"

Notice the simplicity of my version of their question?

First, what does it want to know when it wants something "in terms" of something else? What is this? What are terms? Every math problem will result in writing a term. Factually, it's impossible to do any math class homework without writing a term. This wording has no logic.

Second, why does the book have to tell me to "write an expression?" I always write expressions for all math homework. I cannot solve the problem without forming an expression. Does it ask me to write the expression I form? Well, my college professor told me to do that anyway. He called it, "Homework." All math teachers want students to write the expression they think. How else do students perform homework: writing it really is the only way! This book is full of trite statements!

Third, all the questions in the book ask questions with the same confusion I mention. They have traded in the normal style of algebra text book homework where the question is posed as a question, and NOT posed as an instruction, telling me what to do. In the Yoshiwara book, all questions are formed as instructions; meaning, it has no questions in the book. Therefore, the main objective of the Yoshwara text is to force conformity upon students. The famous MENSA International, the intellectual exchange with IQ tests, forms questions with question marks ending their sentences. Their logic quizzes do not expect members to follow statements of instruction. Therefore, I can extrapolate: the Yoshiwara text uses no proper test of logic, nor does it use any logic in its test design.

I told a friend of mine I thought the Yoshiwara algebra text was excessive. He said, your teacher would know more than you about the qualifications of the textbook for his class. The statement is correct, but it unfortunately only accounts for one person's beliefs, and is inconsiderate to the students'. I scored highest in my last two math classes, but I know I don't know nothing, so I gently reminded him, although my teacher is a professional instructor, that I am a professional student who has to read the text. My friend suggested I study from an alternate algebra text, but I told him that action doesn't make much sense since I will have to complete problems from the Yoshiwara text for my instructor anyway. To form a pun, I figure I don't need more problems.

Math has always been my best subject, to which I have always done well. I had a higher grade score in my last two algebra courses than anyone else in my classes. But, since I have to study from Yoshiwaras' book, I'm thinking of suicide.

The Yoshiwara text is only in line with that new logic that says people are using their vision to learn, more than reading books to learn. My English teacher told me about that new logic. It's like being on crack, or watching MTV. At least, the book tries to adapt to what my English teacher calls the mind of an MTV generation. If this book follows that logic, it's because there's very little simplicity. It's a major undertaking. It's a barrage of math principle with a prerequisite of a master's degree. It was designed by math professors with total interest in math and a blatant disregard to life and logic. They didn't make it to learn math from it; they made it to look like it's the most complete text on algebra that ever existed, only in order to make its existence necessary, for no sane person would read it.

Judging from the text questions I read and the quantity of text, I bet the authors want to teach students to "pump out" math answers without having to think.

No one should ever be forced to study a math text larger than a New York City phone book.

Intermediate Algebra: Functions & Authentic Applications (3rd Edition)

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Intermediate Algebra: Functions & Authentic Applications (3rd Edition)
Jay Lehmann
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Unique and enthusiastic in its approach, Lehmann's book is a rich combination of important skills, concepts, and applications. This book captivates readers' interest as they use curve fitting to model current, compelling, and authentic situations. The curve fitting approach emphasizes concepts related to functions in a natural, substantial way and encourages readers to view functions graphically, numerically, and symbolically as well as to verbally describe concepts related to functions. The examples in the test demonstrate both how to perform skills and how to investigate concepts. Students learn why they perform skills to solve problems as well as how to solve the problems. Explorations deepen users' understanding as they investigate mathematics with graphing calculator and pencil and paper activities. Topics discussed include linear functions, modeling with linear functions, systems of linear functions, exponential functions, logarithmic functions, polynomial functions, using quadratic functions to model data, rational functions, radical functions, and modeling with sequences and series. For individuals interested in deepening their understanding of algebra.

Intermediate Algebra: Graphs and Functions, Third Edition

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Intermediate Algebra: Graphs and Functions, Third Edition
Ron Larson
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Company
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Intermediate Algebra Functions and Authentic Applications, Second Edition

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An interesting math textbook!

Intermediate Algebra Functions and Authentic Applications, Second Edition
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An interesting math textbook!.......2001-08-17

First, I should share that I am the author ot this textbook! Next, I want to respond to the other review by saying that the criticisms are accurate for the premlinary edition, but not this first edition (with subtitle "Functions and Authentic Applications"). In fact, the first edition was not available when the other review was posted! In the first edition I completely rewrote the the text so that it is now really easy to follow. It even has a list of key points at the end of each section. The text has tons of current, interesting data sets that makes the course come alive. You will need to use a graphing calculator with this text. My students love using this text and I'm sure you will too!

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Multivariate Spline Functions and Their Applications (Mathematics and Its Applications)

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Multivariate Spline Functions and Their Applications (Mathematics and Its Applications)
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This book deals with the algebraic geometric method of studying multivariate splines. Topics treated include: the theory of multivariate spline spaces, higher-dimensional splines, rational splines, piecewise algebraic variety (including piecewise algebraic curves and surfaces) and applications in the finite element method and computer-aided geometric design. Many new results are given. Audience: This volume will be of interest to researchers and graduate students whose work involves approximations and expansions, numerical analysis, computational geometry, image processing and CAD/CAM.

Intermediate Algebra Graphs and Functions (Instructor's Annotated Edition)

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