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College Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences (13th Edition)



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Author: Raymond A. Barnett and Michael R. Ziegler

Publisher: Pearson

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Publish Date: February 13, 2014

ISBN-10: 321945514

Pages: 1040

File Type: PDF

Language: English

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Book Preface

The thirteenth edition of College Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences is designed for a two-term (or condensed one-term) course in finite mathematics and calculus for students who have had one to two years of high school algebra or the equivalent. The book’s overall approach, refined by the authors’ experience with large sections of college freshmen, addresses the challenges of teaching and learning when prerequisite knowledge varies greatly from student to student. The authors had three main goals when writing this text:

â–¶ To write a text that students can easily comprehend
â–¶ To make connections between what students are learning and how they may apply that knowledge
▶ To give flexibility to instructors to tailor a course to the needs of their students. Many elements play a role in determining a book’s effectiveness for students. Not only is it critical that the text be accurate and readable, but also, in order for a book to be effective, aspects such as the page design, the interactive nature of the presentation, and the ability to support and challenge all students have an incredible impact on how easily students comprehend the material. Here are some of the ways this text addresses the needs of students at all levels:
â–¶ Page layout is clean and free of potentially distracting elements.
â–¶ Matched Problems that accompany each of the completely worked examples help students gain solid knowledge of the basic topics and assess their own level of understanding before moving on.
â–¶ Review material (Appendix A and Chapters 1 and 2) can be used judiciously to help remedy gaps in prerequisite knowledge.
â–¶ A Diagnostic Prerequisite Test prior to Chapter 1 helps students assess their skills, while the Basic Algebra Review in Appendix A provides students with the content they need to remediate those skills.
â–¶ Explore and Discuss problems lead the discussion into new concepts or build upon a current topic. They help students of all levels gain better insight into the mathematical concepts through thought-provoking questions that are effective in both small and large classroom settings.
â–¶ Instructors are able to easily craft homework assignments that best meet the needs of their students by taking advantage of the variety of types and difficulty levels of the exercises. Exercise sets at the end of each section consist of a Skills Warm-up (four to eight problems that review prerequisite knowledge specific to that section) followed by problems of varying levels of difficulty.
â–¶ The MyMathLab course for this text is designed to help students help themselves and provide instructors with actionable information about their progress. The immediate feedback students receive when doing homework and practice in MyMathLab is invaluable, and the easily accessible e-book enhances student learning in a way that the printed page sometimes cannot.

Most important, all students get substantial experience in modeling and solving real-world problems through application examples and exercises chosen from business and economics, life sciences, and social sciences. Great care has been taken to write a book that is mathematically correct, with its emphasis on computational skills, ideas, and problem solving rather than mathematical theory.

Finally, the choice and independence of topics make the text readily adaptable to a variety
of courses (see the chapter dependencies chart on page 13). This text is one of three books in the authors’ college mathematics series. The others are Finite Mathematics for Business,

Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences, and Calculus for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences. Additional Calculus Topics, a supplement written to accompany the Barnett/Ziegler/Byleen series, can be used in conjunction with any of these books.

New to This Edition

Fundamental to a book’s effectiveness is classroom use and feedback. Now in its thirteenth edition, College Mathematics for Business, Economics, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences has had the benefit of a substantial amount of both. Improvements in this edition evolved out of the generous response from a large number of users of the last and previous editions as well as survey results from instructors, mathematics departments, course outlines, and college catalogs. In this edition,

â–¶ The Diagnostic Prerequisite Test has been revised to identify the specific deficiencies in prerequisite knowledge that cause students the most difficulty with finite mathematics and calculus.
▶ Most exercise sets now begin with a Skills Warm-up—four to eight problems that review prerequisite knowledge specific to that section in a just-in-time approach. References to review material are given for the benefit of students who struggle with the warm-up problems and need a refresher.
â–¶ Section 6.1 has been rewritten to better motivate and introduce the simplex method and associated terminology.
▶ Section 14.4 has been rewritten to cover the trapezoidal rule and Simpson’s rule.
â–¶ Examples and exercises have been given up-to-date contexts and data.
â–¶ Exposition has been simplified and clarified throughout the book.
▶ MyMathLab for this text has been enhanced greatly in this revision. Most notably, a “Getting Ready for Chapter X” has been added to each chapter as an optional resource for instructors and students as a way to address the prerequisite skills that students need, and are often missing, for each chapter. Many more improvements have been made. See the detailed description on pages 17 and 18 for more information.


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