Precalculus teacher edition

This text has all five. I have enjoyed teaching with it and helping students through reading and learning from the text as well. Overall very good selection of topics, coherent, includes many engaging visual features and excellent real world applications.

Definitely good up-to-date applications and approaches. The text is written in a way that the updates will be easy to implement if necessary.

Very clear writing style. Formal when necessary and good examples and illustrations to make concepts more accessible for the students. The text is consistent throughout.

The content is well organized, presented in a coherent way. Terminology is consistent. This text is designed to be modularized. Most Precalculus courses will not cover all of the topics from this text but will cover a subset of these and the text is written with the goal to accommodate that. Rearranging the order of topics could be an issue because of the hierarchical structure of mathematics in general.

The text is organized in a way that I would structure my own Precalculus course. Topics are presented in a logical and clear fashion. I did not find any navigation problems or issues with visual features. The material flows smoothly and the presentation is very user friendly.

Examples are inclusive and carefully chosen. I did not see anything that could be offensive in any way. Very good overall. As I mentioned above, this book probably has more than most of us can fit into our typical Precalculus course but it is certainly not missing anything and could be easily customized.

I used Sullivan's Calculus 9e as a standard for comparisons. The book is very similar in scope and sequencing to Sullivan, but does group some topics differently. For example, Sullivan combines linear and quadratic functions into one short For example, Sullivan combines linear and quadratic functions into one short chapter while this text dedicates a long chapter solely to linear functions and uses that space to develop them more coherently.

Sullivan pulls together some topics into an appendix as a review while this text does not. However, this text develops much of that material in context, which I prefer. Both give a brief, but useful few pages of formulas, identities, and standard functions.

Each chapter reviews key-concepts and has a glossary of terms. There is an index which seems adequate though it is considerably smaller than Sullivan's. I saw nothing that would make me doubt the accuracy of the material. The text lists about 50 credentialed content reviewers including faculty and teachers.

Problem solutions seem accurate and well developed. This text is a standard presentation of the material drawing references from travel by car, psychology, engineering, biology, physics, and economics, which seems typical. It would be nice to see more application in computer programming and data analysis and to simulations. There is nothing faddish about its content or presentation.

A few cultural references may become dated but could easily be updated as they are isolated and not threaded through the material. This text uses standard academic English, but seems less formal than Sullivan. For example, it avoids archaic constructions like "we first develop", "we first look at", and "let us investigate", which I find stultifying in Sullivan.

It is well written and lucid and takes space, I feel, to develop material more naturally than Sullivan. For example, it develops the techniques for graphing and analyzing linear equations in context rather than in an appendix.

For another, it introduces complex numbers in the context of polynomial functions, a natural place, by discussing the way mathematics has grown, while Sullivan introduces the topic ad hoc as an example of using rectilinear and polar coordinates but refers students to an appendix, with a more formal presentation. The text develops the standard terminology around functions, models, and graphing consistently.

Technical terms are introduced in boldface in the body of the text and then defined more formally in easy to locate text-boxes. It introduces standard notations well and uses them consistently. Each chapter presents a glossary with give brief, well written definitions and key concepts, and the concepts include clickable links back to examples in the text. Chapters are broken into from four to ten sections of about 10 to 20 pages.

Sections are largely self-contained and could be used to supplement other coursework. For example, I could see the sections introducing linear functions or the unit circle being used as a review elsewhere. Sections are further divided into two sub-levels that are easily scanned. The development of a topic seldom goes for more than a page without a worked example and a sample problem with the solution presented later.

The material is presented logically and laid out well. This text tends to develop topics in context and avoids putting basic into an appendix. The PDF is nicely laid out to professional standards and displays well on a tablet. It offers a table of contents, full-text searching, and clickable links to examples, solutions, section headings, and to online-videos on some topics.

Solutions to selected exercises and "try it" problems are collected at the back of the PDF, as is standard for print editions.

The online, HTML, version is less readable. It uses clunky grey boxes to organize in-text features, cluttering the flow of the material. It has the clickable links of the PDF, but pages, examples, and the exercises are not numbered and are not tied well to the PDF version.

Graphs are larger online and can be zoomed in using the browser interface. Formulas are rendered via MathJax and can be set to zoom as well. Solutions to selected exercises and "try it" problems are available from a button under the problems. Overall, the typography and design of the PDF version is cleaner, easier to scan, and similar to most professional textbooks, while the online version, though clear and readable, is clunkier, harder to scan, and lacks key labels like page numbers and example numbers, and most distressing, the exercises are not numbered.

The PDF seems well suited as a stand-in for a printed text, while the HTML seems best suited as a quick, linkable reference for online homework platforms like WebAssign. The language and style is mildly formal academic English. It flows well and less formal than some, making it, I believe, more likely to be used by students for learning.

There was nothing I imagined would be offensive to people broadly, but the cultural roots of the text are in American middle-class society: place names such as California, Florida, and New York City are used without reference to the country, though other countries are referenced, especially in photographs. Practical problems use dollars, gallons, and miles, though international standard units are used appropriately in science and engineering contexts.

Common names are more often White American, though there is some variety. Situations were mostly urban and academic and would be familiar to White America. Most examples avoid gender by referring to people by their role scientists, hikers, etc. I used Sullivan' Precalculus 9e as a standard for comparison. This book holds up well. In fact, I prefer the flow of the content and the naturalness of the development. The PDF is a good stand-in for a printed book.

Cengage's WebAssign supports this text. I recommend it as a completely functional text for a serious pre-calculus course. The textbook covers all standard area and ideas for a Precalculus course. It also provides some advanced contents that are linked to Calculus. A review of basic algebra contents at the beginning of the text could have added good flavor to the A review of basic algebra contents at the beginning of the text could have added good flavor to the textbook.

In general, the textbook is a comprehensive one that gives instructors flexibility to choose from for a semester course. All of the chapters that I reviewed and problems that I worked, I found to be error-free and unbiased. I found most of the application problems that I read relevant. I believe it will remain relevant for a long time. The text was written lucidly using accurate terminology. At the end of each chapter, the text provides definitions to key terminologies, which makes easy to access for students.

Each section and each chapter has consistent design that simplify the usage of the book. Each section started with a summary that gives a glimpse picture of the main idea of the section before delving into the detailed idea of the section.

Then followed by key equations, key notes, exercise, and glossary of the section. In addition, the book suggests access to online resources for additional instruction and practice with topic of each section. The chapters in the book are subdivided into more specific sections, and each section also provides full concepts for the topic under each section.

This consistent lay out allows instructors to easily re-order the chapters and topics according to their needs. The chapters and sections of the book is well organized and designed in a comprehensible manner. Topics in each chapter and section has consistent lay out, which makes easy to navigate. In addition, the PDF file suitably displays colorfully the different topics and titles of each chapter.

The interface of the book is great. I found out that all the images are clear. I do recommend viewing the PDF file of the book as it links the index to appropriate page in the text easily. In addition, in the review section of each chapter, the specific example that goes with specific topic is appropriately linked, which makes it easy to navigate.

All of the examples and problems I reviewed are culture and gender neutral. I did not find anything that I would be considered culturally insensitive or offensive. The fact that this book has all the necessary topics and concepts that anyone would look for a precalculus course, and the fact that it is well organized with superb interface features, it is definitely a book that I would consider adopting for my future precalculus course.

It seems to cover all topics of Precalculus and also covers some preview of Calculus. However, the text does not cover review of Algebra. If it also covers a little bit of reviews such as basic factoring and other topics from Algebra, then it If it also covers a little bit of reviews such as basic factoring and other topics from Algebra, then it would be better.

I am guessing that the author originally intended to have an example with two minuses but included typos. Most of parts are very clearly explained including a lot of graphs for visualization of the concepts. Due to the nature of the topic, I do not think this question is relevant to this textbook most of the concepts must be build up based on other concepts. The textbooks is well organized and written.

I do not expect any problem to use this textbook as the main textbook of my Precalculus class. More important than the generous selection of topics that this text includes is the inviting way in which the mathematics is presented, through engaging and colorful pictures, tables, graphs, and examples from real life for example, in Like Saxon, the people at Bob Jones are ever-ready to assist you with any difficulties you may have, including access to textbook authors.

Relatively new is the revised Geometry book for grade For those desiring to approach geometry as a separate course, this revised text will supply a solid option to the Jacobs text. For those students who are not interested in pursuing math beyond algebra or geometry, Bob Jones supplies a Consumer Math course that presents math required for practical living. While there is no separate calculus course, the Advanced Math text does introduce the college-bound student to calculus.

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