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This latest edition in the highly respected Swokowski/Cole precalculus series retains the elements that have made it so popular with instructors and students alike: its exposition is clear, the time-tested exercise sets feature a variety of applications, its uncluttered layout is appealing, and the difficulty level of problems is appropriate and consistent. Mathematically sound, ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY WITH ANALYTIC GEOMETRY, Eleventh Edition, effectively prepares students for further courses in mathematics through its excellent, time-tested problem sets. This edition has been improved in many respects, including the addition of technology inserts with specific keystrokes for the TI-83 Plus and the TI-86, ideal for students who are working with a calculator for the first time. The design of the text makes the technology inserts easily identifiable, so if a professor prefers to skip these sections it is simple to do so.
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This alternate version of ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY WITH ANALYTIC GEOMETRY (Classic Edition with CD-ROM), Tenth Edition is for IUPUI and Purdue Universities ONLY. Order this version if you are a qualifying customer. Other customers should order the standard version ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY WITH ANALYTIC GEOMETRY (with CD-ROM), Tenth Edition, ISBN: 0-534-39050-1, by Earl W. Swokowski and Jeffery A. Cole. See the "Related Links" section (above) for more information.
Customer Reviews:
Hard, but good.......2005-01-19
I use this book for my tenth grade algerbra 2 honours class. It has very good examples and is very thourough with the information. However, we never go beyond halfway through the practice problems because after the first ten or so sets, the problems are so challenging and difficult, it becomes a time waster to spend all our time going over such hard equations. It is a very good textbook, and the CD is handy.
Book Description
This latest edition in the highly respected Swokowski/Cole precalculus series retains the elements that have made it so popular with instructors and students alike: its exposition is clear, the time-tested exercise sets feature a variety of applications, its uncluttered layout is appealing, and the difficulty level of problems is appropriate and consistent. The goal of this text is to prepare students for further courses in mathematics. Mathematically sound, ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY WITH ANALYTIC GEOMETRY (CLASSIC EDITION), Eleventh Edition, effectively prepares students for further courses in mathematics through its excellent, time-tested problem sets.
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The Barnett, Ziegler, Byleen College Algebra/Precalculus series is designed to be user friendly and to maximize student comprehension. The goal of this series is to emphasize computational skills, ideas, and problem solving rather than mathematical theory. College Algebra with Trigonometry, 7/e, introduces a right triangle approach to trigonometry and can be used in one or two semester college algebra with trigonometry or precalculus courses. The large number of pedagogical devices employed in this text will guide a student through the course. Integrated throughout the text, the students and instructors will find Explore-Discuss boxes which encourage students to think critically about mathematical concepts. In each section, the worked examples are followed by matched problems that reinforce the concept that is being taught. In addition, the text contains an abundance of exercises and applications that will convince students that math is useful. A Smart CD is packaged with the seventh edition of the book. This CD tutorial reinforces important concepts, and provides students with extra practice problems.
Customer Reviews:
Mandatory Package College Algebra with Trigonometry with Smart CD (Windows).......2006-09-22
This book was confusing. I found descrepancies. It really frustrated me. If you are an online student, good luck with this book. You will definately need tutoring.
A college student from MCPV.......2000-08-10
This book may be expensive but is really helpful, not only in class but also as a reference or as a study guide. The language used in this book is simple and the graphics and images easy to understand. For me trigonometry was always a pain and I got an A in the class, so I decided to write a review for future students.
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The Barnett, Ziegler, Byleen College Algebra/Precalculus series is designed to be user friendly and to maximize student comprehension. The goal of this series is to emphasize computational skills, ideas, and problem solving rather than mathematical theory. Precalculus, 5/e, introduces a unit circle approach to trigonometry and can be used in one or two semester college algebra with trigonometry or precalculus courses. The large number of pedagogical devices employed in this text will guide a student through the course. Integrated throughout the text, the students and instructors will find Explore-Discuss boxes which encourage students to think critically about mathematical concepts. In each section, the worked examples are followed by matched problems that reinforce the concept that is being taught. In addition, the text contains an abundance of exercises and applications that will convince students that math is useful. A Smart CD is packaged with the seventh edition of the book. The CD tutorial reinforces important concepts, and provides students with extra practice problems.
Customer Reviews:
If I had to teach a two-course sequence in precalculus, this is the book that I would use.......2007-04-28
Until recently, Mount Mercy College, where I teach math and computers, had a two-course precalculus sequence in the mathematics curriculum. If that were still the case, this is the book I would select as the text. I found it so readable, not in the sense of understanding, but in the sense of being easy on the eyes. Using blue and red to highlight headers and other key topic pointers, I found it very easy to follow. In terms of coverage, it is standard; there is nothing here that differentiates it from any other text written for the two-semester sequence.
There are many exercises at the ends of the sections and chapters and solutions to all of them appear in an appendix. One characteristic that I found very positive was that there is very little in the way of technology. What does appear is limited to the use of graphing calculators. In general, I find books that demonstrate how to do mathematical operations using a graphing calculator, a symbolic math package and Excel to be morbidly obese. To me, doing everything three ways is an absurd waste of time. I applaud the authors for their choice, after all even without the heavy presence of technology; the book is still over 1000 pages.
eh.......2007-01-18
This book is set up differently than most other textbooks, especially math text books. It combines what should be in three or four separate sections into one on many accounts. The professor that I have teaching this course repeats daily the fact that this book is somewhat confusing as well, which leads me to wonder why he would have chosen it as the text for his course.
A stepping stone.......2005-09-18
I am not a big fan of this book either. And to answer another reviewer's question "why did he pick this book," the answer is he probably didn't. Publishers push their books on either a committee, or a dept. head.
This book was so unfavorable that our institution replaced it after only a year with the Stewart Pre-calc (don't know about that text, but his Calculus book is great). There were a lot of problems that went beyond the scope of the material in the text, and a lot of students had difficulty.
Later on, I was told by a math instructor that Pre-calc is a "stepping stone" to more technical and in-depth study, and that it is supposed to stretch the student in preparation for the calculus. Still, I had a harder time with this book than I believe I should have.
If you have to use this book, Schaum's makes a good supplement to go along with it. For the second part, just use their trig book. It does have a nice cover though, doesn't it?
Not recommended - authors did not put too much thoughts .......2005-02-14
Obviously the basic concept is as before, but the teaching approach is very outdated. I am a serious maths student, 2 years ahead of my math class. I like to use the CDrom to study and I am so very surprised that the publisher allows a winsow 95/98 version of Cd-rom to be sold with this latest book. I believe a lot of tech craze students will have difficulties reading the disc. Ziegler is a big name, but not their effort. Some of the newer math books by inovative professor are much better. Our parents paying $200 for the package of student manual and the text. They did not put too much thoughts into the cd tutoring. For precal book, go with James Steward, precal latest edition 4th, new version will come out Nov 05, ISBN 0534434215, better cd inactive prgram, good study guide. Amazon basically needs to review this and they have to change the CD before they can put that in the market or they should have a more explicit explanation about the book, pros and cons.... suggestion to the readers.
A failure by all standards.......2004-12-05
The product description boasts that "[t]he Barnett, Ziegler, Byleen College Algebra/Precalculus series is designed to be user friendly and to maximize student comprehension." It should have been sent back to the editors before publication, because _Precalculus_ is anything but.
Among the various and sundry flaws with this text:
1. The fluctuating emphasis on word problems is bizarre: in the very first section ("Linear Equations and Applications") it launches into a barrage of word problems (geometry, number theory, quantity-rate-time, distance-rate-time, chemistry, and more), as though students have the basic skills and the experience to grapple with this huge mass of content. From there, it moves on to the more basic skills of solving linear inequalities, and factoring quadratics. There are some word problems, but gone is the all-applications-all-the-time approach in favour of developing underlying concepts. In addition, the book's claim that "the worked examples are followed by matched problems that reinforce the concept that is being taught" is actually a flaw: students who learn from this text, learn to solve word problems by pattern-matching. Presented with a slightly different problem that draws upon skills they have picked up, they are lost.
2. The ordering of the content is seemingly random. for example: in Chapter 1, students are presented with a slew of opportunities to express this quantity in terms of that one. Six sections later, in Chapter 2, they learn what a function is (ie, it's an expression of one quantity in terms of another), and from there they have several opportunities to...express one quantity in terms of another. Some of the exercises in Chapter 2 are virtually identical in content to some of the exercises in Chapter 1 - for instance, students are asked to find break-even points of cost functions in both chapters. Most perplexing choice of ordering: students are taught to find equations of, and graph, circles in Section 2-1, one section before they're taught to find equations of,and graph, straight lines. One section later we arrive at the "Functions" unit, followed by..."Graphing Functions".
3 - This book would be around 200 pages shorter if it omitted all of the graphing calculator applications, which it should. There are questions asking students to describe the shape, or find the range, of a function by plotting it on a graphing calulator. As a pedagogical exercise, this is useless. It's also counterproductive from the perspective of instructors faced with the unenviable task of teaching students to graph functions and find their ranges algebraically. Although the emphasis of a precalculus class should not be overly theoretical, students should come out of it with some notion of what sorts of operations are mathematically and logically sound. Finding the range of a function by plotting it on a calculator is not, while completing the square of a quadratic and analyzing it is. The book presents these two methods on equal footing.
4 - Speaking of graphing functions: the book pays some lip service to graphing functions by applying transformations - for instance, students should know what the graph of y=x^2 looks like, and from there they can apply transformations in order to graph y=-2(x-4)^2+3. But soon it abandons this approach, and graphing functions pointwise becomes the method of choice.
5 - The book description claims an emphasis on computational skills over theory. Indeed, it de-emphasizes theory to the point of presenting content as a series of disjoint rules. The "here's a word problem, here's the formula you need for it, now do two just like it" approach is one example, but it's in the third chapter that the authors' contempt for mathematical justification really comes through. That section (on polynomials) is awash with a dozen methods of estimating bounds of zeroes of function by using synthetic division. Synthetic division itself is presented without proof, and the applications are all given as formulas without any justification. Later, in chapter 4, we get eight rules of logarithms without a lick of explanation. Contrary to its goal of emphasizing problem solving by opting not to muddy the waters with theory, this approach leaves students with so little grasp of the underlying content that they can't solve any problems beyond the exact ones presented in the text.
These are just some of the problems with Chapters 1-4; I haven't taught the second-semester course, which uses Chapters 5-8. I have taught a variety of first-year college math classes, and never have I found a textbook so difficult to work from. Every attempt to instill some theoretical comprehension is undermined by the scattered, calculator-dependent approach of the text. My students agree: I've had several tell me that they have never had such an unreadable text. I'd advise math departments to search around for a twenty-year-old college algebra text that's still in print, and use it. (If they can't, they should write to the publisher of such a text for permission to copy it.) Older texts omit the calculator mumbo-jumbo and insist are designed to instill mastery of a rudimentary set of skills, rather than memorization of a handful of formulas - and that's the best way to prepare future calculus students.
Book Description
The student solutions manual provides worked-out solutions to the odd-numbered problems in the text.
Customer Reviews:
Fair.......2006-02-25
The solutions manual is helpful yet can be confusing bcause the manual teaches you the long way which could sometimes prove to be confusing. It is best to understand the formulas first and then use the manual as a cross check to verify that the final solution is correct.
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Clear explanations, an uncluttered and appealing layout, and examples and exercises featuring a variety of real-life applications have made this text popular among students year after year. This latest edition of Swokowski and Cole's ALGEBRA AND TRIGONOMETRY WITH ANALYTIC GEOMETRY retains these features. The problems have been consistently praised for being at just the right level for precalculus students like you. The book also provides calculator examples, including specific keystrokes that show you how to use various graphing calculators to solve problems more quickly. Perhaps most important-this book effectively prepares you for further courses in mathematics.
Average customer rating:
- A really bad math book
- Awful!
- For mathematicians, by mathmematicians
- Solid math textbook
- A math book that leaves you stranded
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This Ninth Edition of Algebra and Trigonometry with Analytic Geometry has been improved in three important ways. First, discussions have been rewritten to enable students to more easily understand the mathematical concepts presented. Second, exercises have been added that require students to estimate, approximate, interpret a result, write a summary, create a model, explore, or find a generalization. Third, graphing calculators have been incorporated to a greater extent through the addition of examples and exercises as well as the inclusion of a cross-referenced appendix on the use of the TI-82/83. All of this has been accomplished without compromising the mathematical integrity that is the hallmark of this text.
Customer Reviews:
A really bad math book.......2005-04-06
Precalculus is hard enough without having to use a book like this. I thought that the prose was unreadable, the graphics confusing, and many of the exercises supercomplicated (our professor thought so too). In my opinion *Algebra and Trignometry* is a triumph of marketing over pedagogical competence. My advice? Not only should you not buy this book; you should avoid a class in which it is assigned.
Awful!.......2004-09-01
I teach a high school class for advanced mathematics in preparation for college maths, and I honestly have to say that this is the worst book from which to teach. Yes, I can understand it perfectly, but a student will be lost the moment he or she lays eyes on the first page. The only good thing about this book is the number of exercises it has in each section.
For mathematicians, by mathmematicians.......2004-04-24
Frankly, I found this text way too brief in its coverage of topics prior to being bombarded with questions. There isn't much good to say about this book other than providing lots of problems to work. Save yourself the money and buy a "10000 problem" text instead.
Solid math textbook.......2003-05-15
I'm a little torn on what to say about this book. On one hand, I have a huge amount of respect for this book. On the other hand, it's not an easy book to learn from.
I have no doubt that if people work through this book, they will be very knowledgable and skilled in the areas covered. It is, however, a slow, tedious, sometimes frustrating process. The authors are clearly proficient at math, but their style is pretty dry. It's a "just the facts, ma'am" approach to instruction. It would be nice to have perspective, interpretation, and helpful guidance in addition to straight math. It's kind of like reading a technical manual. I prefer a more engaging presentation.
A math book that leaves you stranded.......2000-09-19
This book is required by my college and dealing with it was the most unpleasant period of my life. Prior to using this book I used the Saxon Math Program in which each lesson contains enough information to learn the material without the help of an instructor. There is no way that you can teach yourself from this book if you don't all ready know the material, and many math professors are lazy and tell you to get the knowledge out of the book. The lesson material is too brief and the explanations are almost cryptic. The solutions manual that comes with it is supposed to have the answers to all the odd problems, but the author decided to leave out a couple of these problems in which the answer would take up a little more paper than the others, these are often the ones you need the solutions to, the book just leaves you stranded. If you have to use this book, I pity you, you better hope that you have a darn good math professor. If you don't have to use it, steer clear of it.
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