Intermediate Algebra, Updated Media Edition (with CD-ROM and MathNOW™, Enhanced iLrn™ Math Tutorial, Student Resource Center Printed Access Card) (Available 2010 Titles Enhanced Web Assign) - Softcover

Tussy, Alan S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0495188891 ISBN 13: 9780495188896

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2006

Synopsis

Become fluent in "the language of algebra" with INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA. This textbook will improve your ability to read, write, and communicate mathematical ideas. Tussy and Gustafson make learning easy with their five-step problem-solving approach: analyze the problem, form an equation, solve the equation, state the result, and check the solution. This edition also includes iLrn Testing and Tutorial; Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING live online tutoring; the Interactive Video Skillbuilder CD-ROM with MathCue; a Book Companion Web Site featuring online graphing calculator resources; and The Learning Equation, powered by iLrn.

About this title

About the Author:

: Alan Tussy teaches all levels of developmental mathematics at Citrus College in Glendora, CA. He has written nine math books-a paperback series and a hard-cover series. An extraordinary author, he is dedicated to his students' success, relentlessly meticulous, creative, and a visionary who maintains a keen focus on his students' greatest challenges. Alan received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Redlands and his Master of Science degree in Applied Mathematics from California State University, Los Angeles. He has taught up and down the curriculum from prealgebra to differential equations. He is currently focusing on the developmental math courses. Professor Tussy is a member of the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges.

Review:

You have done a great job explaining to the students how to read and write mathematically. The writing component helps the student to retain the information and [it will] be helpful to them in a subsequent math course.

I really like these explanatory [author's] notes. They are similar to ones that I like to write on the chalkboard when I am lecturing. This is perhaps my favorite feature of the text. Martin-Gay does have similar explanatory notes, but Tussy/Gustafson has more detail. The authors have done a good job with this.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0495188891
• ISBN 13: 9780495188896
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 864