Kenneth Kuttler– Brigham Young University
ISBN-10: 0-9842071-0-4
ISBN-13: 978-0-9842071-0-7
259 Pages
©2019 Worldwide Center of Mathematics, LLC
Digital | $14.95
Print | $39.95
When students have taken a good course in college algebra and one in trigonometry, they should be ready for calculus. However, they often either forget this material or some important topics were omitted. This is why there is a need for pre-calculus courses.
This book emphasizes the topics, which are often a source of difficulty for calculus students: functions, trigonometry identities, binomial theorem, and basic area formulas, for example. However, mathematics does not begin with calculus. There are many fascinating and useful concepts, which can be studied with no exposure to calculus. The book includes some of these, such as applications to finance, probability, partial fractions, and the abstract concept of a field. In addition, rigorous explanations of standard topics from algebra and trigonometry are included: the binomial theorem, the length of a circular arc, the definitions of the exponential and log functions, the theory of partial fractions, for example.
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Upon request, additional exercises with accompanying solution manuals are available. These can be used to provide students additional exercises to those already in the book, or as a source for exam problems. Alternatively, the solutions to these exercises could be given to students to provide an extensive list of supplementary examples. For example, an instructor could assign a set of exercises from one version of these files and hand out the solutions to another version in case the students are having difficulty. It is also possible to provide a complete solutions manual based on one version for these exercises without giving away all the answers to another version. The option exists to have a fresh set of exercises for the book each time it is used. Those who have scientific notebook 5.5 or scientific workplace 5.5, are welcome to the three files used to generated these random exercises and solutions, along with needed wmf files. These can be modified as desired.
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