Precalculus: A Unit-circle Approach

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Ratti and McWaters have combined years of lecture notes and firsthand experience with students to bring you a text series that teaches at the same level and in the style that you do. An extensive array of exercises and learning aids further complements your instruction in class and during office hours. In addition to all of the standard features of the other books in the Ratti/McWaters series, this edition offers a faster pace and includes more rigorous topics ideal for students going into calculus.
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Precalculus With Limits A Graphing Approach 5th Edition

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 "Exactly what I wanted." 2009-09-28
By Gloria (Los Angeles, CA)
This book was exactly what I wanted. It was in new condition and arrived fast.

 "precalculus with limits" 2009-06-11
By Catherine L. Parsley
the book was in excellant condition. Brand New. Recieved it a few days after ordering, I'm very pleased.


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Precalculus With Limits: A Graphing Approach

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As part of the market-leading Graphing Approach series by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards, Precalculus with Limits: A Graphing Approach, 4/e, provides both students and instructors with a sound mathematics course in an approachable, understandable format. The quality and quantity of the exercises, combined with interesting applications, cutting-edge design, and innovative resources, make teaching easier and help students succeed in mathematics. This edition, intended for precalculus courses that require the use of a graphing calculator, includes a moderate review of algebra to help students entering the course with weak algebra skills.
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 "Excellent" 2009-02-16
By Alexander Storc (FL, USA)
Came in fast and Brand New. Just like I ordered, couldn't have had it any other way. I would recommend.

 "Tutor recommended" 2008-12-23
By Be Well (Boston, MA USA)
This is an excellent book to explain pre-calculus. The text book my daughter had was really poorly written, so a tutor recommended this book. It has helped.


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Precalculus Functions and Graphs: A Graphing Approach 5th Edition

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Part of the market-leading Graphing Approach Series by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards, Precalculus Functions and Graphs: A Graphing Approach, 5/e, is an ideal student and instructor resource for courses that require the use of a graphing calculator. The quality and quantity of the exercises, combined with interesting applications and innovative resources, make teaching easier and help students succeed. Continuing the series' emphasis on student support, the Fifth Edition introduces Prerequisite Skills Review. For selected examples throughout the text, the Prerequisite Skills Review directs students to previous sections in the text to review concepts and skills needed to master the material at hand. In addition, prerequisite skills review exercises in Eduspace are referenced in every exercise set. The Larson team achieves accessibility through careful writing and design, including examples with detailed solutions that begin and end on the same page, which maximizes the readability of the text. Similarly, side-by-side solutions show algebraic, graphical, and numerical representations of the mathematics and support a variety of learning styles.
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 "Never heard from the seller or received the book" 2009-09-29
By Ristra
Never heard from the seller or received the book - is it possible to give a negative ratings?

 "Cheap & timely" 2009-05-06
By Kelsey M. Johnson
This product came in the mail quickly and I was very pleased with the cost since it saved me a LOT on this textbook. The condition of the book is also nice like he said it would be.

 "Apparently I Can't Speak PhD Mathematics" 2008-06-12
By J. Avery (Michigan)
If your professor is planning on doing an accelerated summer course complete with the book's online functionality, drop the course. The whole book is example based with no explanation as to simple things such as "Why?" or "How?". It's all quite simply this does this, which leads to this, and you finally get that. It will probably work for the people that were calculus addicts in high school, but for an introductory college calculus course for people like me with no prior exposure except high level algebra, it seems that Larson goes with the stereotypical mathematician mindset. That is, he has a PhD in math and he wants you to know it by showing you a lot of arbitrary numbers and terminology without explanation to show how humbling math can be, how little an introductory college student can hope to gain, and to justify having the price tag above $100 and the special online code another $60 if you buy used. The website is just as useless because it's just an online version of the text complete with the exact same examples and practice problems. That is if you can get into the site since it's so buggy. It often times out and wipes your homework AND EXAMS IN PROGRESS which leads to it constantly being down for maintenance. Overall, unless you had pre-calc in high school, it shouldn't be a problem, but if you're just stepping into the subject get a different book or an excellent professor.

 "Correction" 2004-12-01
By MaxiMiner
Full title is "Precalculus Functions and Graphs: A Graphing Approach".

There is a good supplement to this book: 1997, 2nd ed., ISBN 0669417297 "Study and Solutions Guide for Precalculus Functions and Graphs: A Graphing Approach and Precalculus With Limits : A Graphing Approach" by Bruce Edwards and Dianna Zook (i.e. for ISBNs 0395882710 and 0669417580).




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Precalculus: A Problems-Oriented Approach (with CD-ROM and iLrn™ Tutorial)

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David Cohen's PRECALCULUS: A PROBLEMS-ORIENTED APPROACH, Sixth Edition, focuses on teaching mathematics by using a graphical perspective throughout to provide a visual understanding of college algebra and trigonometry. The author is known for his clear writing style and the numerous quality exercises and applications he includes in his respected texts. In this new edition, graphs, visualization of data, and functions are now introduced much earlier and receive greater emphasis. Many sections now contain more examples and exercises involving applications and real-life data. While this edition takes the existence of the graphing calculator for granted, the material is arranged so that one can teach the course with as much or as little graphing utility work as he/she wishes.
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 "OK book" 2009-03-13
By Anthony J. Gomez Diaz
This book is written to a very understandable degree. If you are finding it difficult to understand then the problem is not the book its you. While some of the chapters may be better organized the book is not a total loss. After all you do only have to look in the appendix to find the topic you want to study about. All information is in this book including a 2 chapter review of basic algebra.



While I don't love the book, I am having no problem with it.

 "Grab Bag" 2005-11-24
By I. R. Paul (Berkeley, CA)
A grab bag of precalc topics. Makes a good refresher, but not a good intro.

 "Good chapters, poor layout" 2005-05-13
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I see that other reviewers have beaten me to the punch. I, too, found the individual chapters very good and the overall organization confused. Like a previous reviewer, I think Cohen's Precalculus would best serve as a supplement to Michael Sullivan's more effectively organized book.

 "jumbled = confusing = easily forgotten lessons" 2005-02-21
By annoyed dad (Madison, WI)
My son was assigned this textbook last year in a junior college math class. He and his classmates found it frustrating. I had to spend hours tutoring him and several of his friends. As a result, I became intimately familiar with Cohen's Precalculus and the confusion it caused students.



My opinion of this book is much like that of the first and last reviewers. There is no discernible order to the chapters; the book doesn't progress in any logical way from what the students have just learned to what immediately follows. (For example: Why didn't the chapter on linear equations immediately follow the chapter on matrices? That's the whole point of matrices--we use them to solve linear equations!).



Sad to say, this book is just a big jumble of miscellaneous material lumped together under the rubric of precalculus. I don't know why the author and publisher chose to arrange the material this way. A previous reviewer suggests that the market forces textbook authors to include everything but the kitchen sink. Even if true, this explanation is irrelevant: it might explain why the book crams so much between its covers, but it doesn't explain the haphazard arrangement of the material. The book certainly didn't do my son or his classmates much good. Although they managed to memorize and regurgitate their lessons well enough to pass the final exam, the mathematical knowledge they gleaned wasn't retained very well because it was never put into any kind of logical order. This book provided no framework that made sense of the random lessons they received. In my opinion, that is not a good way to teach anything, especially an abstract subject like math.

 "Incoherent is the word, all right" 2005-02-08
By Pete Nedervetil (Los Angeles)
I'm an honors math major who had to use this text for a high-school AP math class a few years ago.



The first reviewer has hit the nail on the head. A reader could be forgiven for thinking Cohen suffered from ADHD. He's fine at explaining the small picture, but utterly hopeless at fitting all the little bits into any kind of coherent framework. This book is all over the place, bouncing here and there, seemingly at mere whim. It doesn't really matter WHY it's so disorganized--whether the result of some ed-school fad or a publisher's marketing strategy. In the end, it's still disorganized.



If your professor takes the trouble to rearrange the order of the chapters and provides plenty of supplemental material, this book might be marginally useful. But I certainly wouldn't recommend it as the primary text for a precalc course. Michael Sullivan's textbook is better organized, if not quite so lucid in its particulars.


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Precalculus: A Graphing Approach

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Part of the market-leading Graphing Approach series by Larson, Hostetler, and Edwards, Precalculus: A Graphing Approach, 5/e, is an ideal student and instructor resource for courses that require the use of a graphing calculator. The quality and quantity of the exercises, combined with interesting applications and innovative resources, make teaching easier and help students succeed. Continuing the series' emphasis on student support, the Fifth Edition introduces Prerequisite Skills Review. For selected examples throughout the text, the Prerequisite Skills Review directs students to previous sections in the text to review concepts and skills needed to master the material at hand. In addition, prerequisite skills review exercises in Eduspace (see below for description) are referenced in every exercise set. The Larson team achieves accessibility through careful writing and design, including examples with detailed solutions that begin and end on the same page, which maximizes the readability of the text. Similarly, side-by-side solutions show algebraic, graphical, and numerical representations of the mathematics and support a variety of learning styles.
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 "Good book" 2009-10-11
By Sebastian Morales (Jersey City, New Jersey)
I had no problems with it, it is the last edition and I revived it three days after I bought it in a pretty good condition.

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