Product Description

This exciting book contains 20 instructional lessons that guide students step-by-step through sequences of activities that help them learn the mathematical concepts using the TI-89 graphing calculator. Keying sequences are provided for each lesson. Students are given lots of exercises for practice of the concepts and complete solutions are given for most of the exercises.Topics included are:

Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

polynomial functions

polynomial equations

rational functions trigonometric functions

exponential functions

logarithmic functions

linear systems

linear programming

matrices

congruence arithmetic

complex numbers

fractals

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #346499 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-15
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Review
This book is a collection of seventeen explorations in precalculus mathematics. Each exploration includes a brief exposition, some worked examples, and about ten student exercises. The explorations fall into five different units: sequences and series; number theory, including some theory of equations; complex numbers; combinatorics and probability; and matrices, linear systems, and linear programming.Since this book covers only part of a typical advanced algebra or precalculus syllabus, it is perhaps most useful as a teacher resource or a source of enrichment for students capable of independent work in mathematics. As such, the book has much to recommend it. Some of the more interesting problems involve using Stirling's formula for approximation of factorials, Verhulst's logistic equation, and Mendel's experiments. The author has included some short programs, with no more than about fifteen lines, that teachers and students might find useful. Such programs, for exampl! ! e, will enable the user to solve a linear Diophantine equation, find the sum of a sequence too long for the TI-83 memory, or spend several hours drawing the Julia set on the calculator screen.Albert Goetz, Ramaz School, New York, NY 10021. -- The Mathematics Teacher, Vol 92, #3, March 1999

About the Author
The author, Brendan Kelly, has written over 60 books for students from grade 1 through college. His books are sold throughout the world and his books for graphing calculators have been translated into Japanese. Brendan Kelly is Professor of Mathematics and Mathematics education at the University of Toronto. He has a Ph.D. in pure mathematics (number theory) and an Ed.D. degree in computer applications from OISE/UT.

Customer Reviews

Unique book!
The layout for this book was great! The table of contents of this book has the subjects listed so you can browse to what the instructor is covering quickly. When you get to the subject you are covering in the book the author gives a math review of history on the subject of math and how it relates with example problems. Then he covers step-by-step instructions on how to enter the data into the TI-89 (this was very helpful for me) and then shows what the calculator's results should be. I would recommend this book as a stepping stone for beginners who plan on taking Pre-Calculus in the future with the TI-89. I purchased this book to help me in Pre-Calculus entering basic data that was covered in previous Algebra classes. I have not had much experience with the TI-89 and this book was very helpful in certain subjects than the handbook that came with the TI-89 calculator.

Advanced Algebra for the TI-89
The book was helpful in learning how to solve matrices and other advanced algebra problems. It also had some mathematical history jokes which were appropriate. It gave some very helpful steps in learning the details of the TI-89, and the easiest way to use it. I would recommend this book to other students, either high school, or college level to gain insight into their TI-89 before using it in class.

Pass on this one
It's not just algebra, there is some statistics also. For the most part not well layed out. I would pass on this one.