Synopsis
This edition continues a tradition of demonstrating fundamental mathematical concepts through the use of examples taken from real-world applications in such areas as banking, the hotel/motel industry, retail, and real estate. Coverage encompasses all areas of business mathematics, beginning with whole number and decimals, and bringing students along, step-by-step, through fractions, percents, statistics, and equations, to specifics of business-related mathematics applications such as payroll, discounts, markup/markdown, interest, credit, depreciation, inventory, insurance, taxes, and more.
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From the Back Cover
With a strong commitment to educational innovation, Cleaves & Hobbs' BUSINESS MATH, Sixth Edition, brings a whole new look to this nationally prominent text. The pedagogy and design of the text exist for one reason: helping today's business math student comfortably work with mathematics and confidently tackle the challenges presented in the business world.
The lineup includes:
- Decision Key approach to problem solving
- Learning Strategies to facilitate the learning process
- Spreadsheet Exercises
- Study Wizard for interactive practice, self tests and searchable glossary
- Good Decisions Through Teamwork
- Learning Outcomes
- How-To Boxes
- Self-Checks with complete solutions
- Tip Boxes
- Around the Business World applications
- Assignment Exercises with answers to odd-numbered questions
- Concepts Analysis exercises
- Chapter Overview
- Words to Know list with page number references
- Chapter Practice Tests with answers to odd-numbered questions
- Glossary/Index
Authors Cheryl Cleaves and Margie Hobbs, leaders in their field, focused their efforts in this new edition on developing the student's critical thinking skills and collaborative learning processes—through the "Decision Key" and teamwork problems, the concepts analysis exercises, and the extensive list of student projects—conforming to the directives outlined in the AMATYC standards, NCTM and NBEA standards, and the SCANS guidelines.
You will excel using BUSINESS MATH, Sixth Edition. Cleaves and Hobbs have done and will continue to do whatever it takes to make this book the best one for students and instructors in your business math course.
Cheryl and Margie welcome your e-mail questions and comments:
cleaves@bellsouth.net or mjhobbs@watervalley.net
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