Precalculus (with CD-ROM, BCA/iLrn™ Tutorial, and InfoTrac )

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Dwyer and Gruenwald's PRECALCULUS builds on the same features as their very successful COLLEGE ALGEBRA, Second Edition and COLLEGE ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY, Second Edition , while adding material to help students look ahead to calculus. The book is organized around a traditional table of contents, and offers a contemporary flavor through the use of the rule of four, modeling, and a strong conceptual orientation. The authors motivate students by using outstanding contemporary applications that address important topical issues, as well as entertaining and illustrative ones. The applications are woven around a carefully paced presentation of algebra and trigonometry topics. A rich variety of exercises further engage and challenge students. In PRECALCULUS, the authors assume that students have access to a variety of graphing calculator models, so generic instruction is provided. Guidelines and keystrokes for specific calculators can be found in the free, text-specific online graphing calculator manual.
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 "Faulty sending" 2008-10-02
By Matthew Michaels
i was told that this book would be sent in 5-10 business days. well it took a month to get to me. that would have been just great except i needed the book for my classes. If you say 5-10 business days it better be to me by 10 business days max~! not a month


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Precalculus (with CengageNOW, Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING Printed Access Card)

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Get a better grade with PRECALCULUS and accompanying technology! With a focus on teaching the essentials, this mathematics text provides you with the fundamentals necessary to be successful in this course and your future calculus course. Exercises and examples are presented the way that you will encounter them in calculus so that you are truly prepared for your next course. Your access to the accompanying CengageNOW learning system includes diagnostics, tutorials, homework, quizzing, and testing. Other tools found throughout the text such as exercises, calculus connections, and true and false questions help you master difficult concepts.
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 "All the information needed in a compact size!" 2009-11-01
By D. Adams (Illinois)
This book covers all the topics and has plenty of practice problems and yet it's barely an inch thick! Why isn't every instructor using this book?

 "Pre-Calculus Book" 2009-09-10
By J. McNamara (Columbus, OH)
This item came in the condition exactly as stated by the seller. It was my first time to buy on Amazon and I was a little nervous but all was good.

 "An awfully composed book!" 2009-02-12
By jetdoc (Planet Earth)
The college I went to required this book but the instructor hated it! To illustrate, on the first day of class she brought 4 precal books from years past and held this book up to them. The first thing we noticed is that this book is 1/2 the size of the older precal books. Looking through it you find that a lot of critical/remedial information has been left out! As a consequence she had to supplement from those books of yester-year or (as she put it) a lot of people would have probabaly made a D or flat out failed because the way this book was structured!



I wholeheartedly agree with her!



In short, this book is way, WAY too assuming in the sense that you have a very strong mathematical (algebraic) background and practically throws you off into deep water leaving you to tread it for yourself. To the authors, Mr. Faires and Mr. Defranza...you two might be great math teachers, but your textbook writing skills need some serious work!

 "not really necessary" 2009-01-14
By G. Cates (AR)
i ended up making an A in calculus, but i didnt think taking the precalculus course using this book was very helpful. maybe just a little

 "An insult to Precalc textbooks everywhere" 2008-04-22
By Peter Johnson (at my desk)
I've seen lots and lots of Precalculus textbooks, and this one is just about the bottom of the barrel. Faires and DeFranza have put together a book that's dull, poorly-organized, badly-written, and overpriced. The page layout is hazy and unfocused (look sharp for the tiny, tiny symbol that marks the end of one example and the start of another), and good luck spotting where one subject ends and the next one starts. They insist on using several lines of unfathomable symbology where a simple English sentence would explain things much more clearly. This would be fine for a Calc III book, but come on...



And unforgivably, there are dozens of incorrect answers in the back. My guess is that some questions were modified slightly to justify publishing the Fourth Edition, but the publisher was too cheap to hire a few grad students to make sure that the answers matched the new questions. And for my own personal gripe, I'll add that it's very irritating that some of the answers are given in simplified form and others aren't, seemingly at random.



This book is useless even if you're using it in a math class. The only positive thing I can say about it is that it weighs less than most of the other math textbooks I've had to carry around campus.


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