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College Algebra, 10th Edition
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Product Description
Over the years, the text has been shaped and adapted to meet the changing needs of both students and educators. As always, special care was taken to respond to the specific suggestions of users and reviewers through enhanced discussions, new and updated examples and exercises, helpful features, and an extensive package of supplements and study aids. The result is an easy-to-use, comprehensive text that is the best edition yet.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #206585 in Books
- Published on: 2008-01-06
- Format: Student Edition
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 864 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Marge Lial has always been interested in math; it was her favorite subject in the first grade! Marge's intense desire to educate both her students and herself has inspired the writing of numerous best-selling textbooks. Marge, who received Bachelor's and Master's degrees from California State University at Sacramento, is now affiliated with American River College. Marge is an avid reader and traveler. Her travel experiences often find their way into her books as applications, exercise sets, and feature sets. She is particularly interested in archeology. Trips to various digs and ruin sites have produced some fascinating problems for her textbooks involving such topics as the building of Mayan pyramids and the acoustics of ancient ball courts in the Yucatan.
When John Hornsby enrolled as an undergraduate at Louisiana State University, he was uncertain whether he wanted to study mathematics education or journalism. His ultimate decision was to become a teacher, but after twenty-five years of teaching at the high school and university levels and fifteen years of writing mathematics textbooks, both of his goals have been realized. His love for both teaching and for mathematics is evident in his passion for working with students and fellow teachers as well. His specific professional interests are recreational mathematics, mathematics history, and incorporating graphing calculators into the curriculum. John's personal life is busy as he devotes time to his family (wife Gwen, and sons Chris, Jack, and Josh). He has been a rabid baseball fan all of his life. John's other hobbies include numismatics (the study of coins) and record collecting. He loves the music of the 1960s and has an extensive collection of the recorded works of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.
David Schneider has taught mathematics at universities for over 34 years and has authored 36 books. He has an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Oberlin College and a PhD in mathematics from MIT. During most of his professional career, he was on the faculty of the University of Maryland--College Park. His hobbies include travel, dancing, bicycling, and hiking.
Customer Reviews
The few explanations they give you are terrible
I am a software engineer, challenges are part of my job. Even in school I rarely mind a challenge. What I do mind is a half impossible task where I am not equipped with the proper resources to complete the challenge. That is exactly what this book sets up a class for.
This book severely lacks explanations, especially towards the end. They talk about a concept then expect you to know how to take it a step further. I find myself going on the internet very frequently looking to fill in the voids the book leaves.
When this book does give an explanation, it is awful. I have not for a long time seen a non-fiction writer pack so many words into so few thoughts. Even simple processes like finding the information of a parabola or hyperbola are made almost impossible to understand by the authors poor way of explaination. I once again found myself looking on the internet (youtube is useful) for clearer explanations on what they simply can no convey in a clear manor.
Having talked to almost everyone else in my class, I surprisingly found that I understood more than most of them. This book is clearly a poor learning tool for any class.
Needs more explanations!
This book shows the steps on doing a problem, but half the time does not explain why or how you got to the next step. I am confused a lot of the time doing the exercises in this book because I can not figure out the explanation. An explanation should do just that; explain. I usually end up doing a search on the internet for an explanation of how to do the problems instead. Unfortunately this sub-par book is required for my Algebra class.
needs more information
This book was written for a person who has already completed college. Very difficult to understand and they say a lot of theories and functions, but badly explain the use. A lot of posting the function (example: f(x)=y-k(q)+r), but the workout of the problem is less than a 1/8 of the page. Need to explain it as if a student is learning, not already familiar with the work of the problem.
