Functions and Change: A Modeling Approach to College Algebra - Hardcover

Crauder, Bruce; Evans, Benny; Noell, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 061864301X ISBN 13: 9780618643011

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 2006

Synopsis

Functions and Change provides an alternative to a traditional college algebra course for students who either will not take another math course or may go on to a business calculus course. The authors wrote this text for the many college algebra students who are poorly served by books that focus on preparing them for a course they will never take, traditional calculus.

About this title

Synopsis

Emphasising functions and modelling, "Functions and Change" introduces concepts through applications (in context) instead of through theory. Many exercises are conceptual, requiring thought and interpretation, not just quantitative answers. "Functions and Change: A Modelling Approach to College Algebra" continues to gain market share in the modelling/applications-driven/reform segment of the College Algebra market in each edition. The authors determined the topics by consulting with their colleagues from other departments all over campus (instructors teaching courses in agriculture, biology, business, chemistry, ecology, economics, engineering, physics, political science and zoology). Because the following skills are used most in students' subsequent courses in these various disciplines, the book focuses on giving students confidence in relating sentences to formulas, tables and graphs; as well as facility with graphs, tables of values, and linear algebraic manipulations. Rates of change is a unifying concept. It is also appropriate for alternative courses at the college level, such as "Mathematical Modelling."

This text will appeal to instructors who want an integration of technology, quality real-world applications and an emphasis on modelling.

About the Author

Bruce Crauder received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1981, after which he spent a post-doctoral year at the Institute for Advanced Studies. Since then, he has held positions at the University of Utah, University of Pennsylvania, University of North Carolina, Colorado State University, and is now at Oklahoma State University as a Professor of Mathematics. Crauder has held NSF research grants in algebraic geometry and has worked with several NSF grants for mathematics curricular reform and development with Benny Evans and Alan Noell. He is currently the Associate Dean for Instruction of the College of Arts & Sciences at Oklahoma State.

Edition details

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 061864301X
• ISBN 13: 9780618643011
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 592