College Algebra, 6th edition

The Right Tools for Success

With an emphasis on problem solving and critical thinking, Dugopolski’s College Algebra, Sixth Edition gives students the essential strategies to help them develop the comprehension and confidence they need to be successful in this course. Students will find carefully placed learning aids and review tools to help them do the math.

This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience–for you and your students. Here’s how:

• MyMathLab^® delivers proven results in helping students succeed and provides engaging experiences with personalized learning.
• Strategies for success are strategically placed throughout the text giving students guidance right when they needit.
• Milestones along the way help students practice the skills and check their progress.
• Tying it all together chapter review exercises help students review and synthesize the material as they prepare for the road ahead.

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IMPROVE RESULTS WITH MyMathLab^®: MyMathLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed and provides engaging experiences that personalize learning.

• NEW! Video Notebook: This printed guide gives students a structured place to take notes as they watch the videos. Definitions, examples, and important concepts are highlighted, and helpful hints are pointed out along the way.  The notebook is available in MyMathLab.

• NEW! Video assessment is tied to the video lecture for each section of the book to check student’s conceptual understanding of important math concepts. Instructors can assign these questions as a prerequisite to homework assignments.

• NEW! Getting Ready: Skill review quizzes are assignable throughout the course, testing students on prerequisite knowledge. From these quizzes, each student receives a personalized homework assignment to refresh forgotten concepts.
• NEW! Adaptive Study Plan: Pearson now offers adaptive learning functionality that continuously analyzes student work and points them toward resources that will maximize their potential for understanding and success.
• Skills for Success Module: This module helps students with the transition into college through the transition into professional life.
• Review Your Knowledge: Review Exercises in the text are now assignable in MyMathLab and require students to recall previously learned content and skills. By helping students maintain essential skills throughout the course, they retain information that prepares them for future math courses.
• NEW! Enhanced Graphing Functionality: New functionality within the graphing utility allows graphing of 3-point quadratic functions, 4-point cubic graphs, and transformations in exercises.

STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS: Learning aids are strategically placed throughout the text giving students guidance right when they needit.

• Chapter Openers discuss real-world situations that use mathematics from that chapter. Examples and exercises then relate back to the opening scenarios.
• Try This exercises after every example give students the opportunity to immediately try a problem that is just like the example and to check their work. Solutions to all Try This exercises are in Online Appendix B.
• Summaries of important concepts are included to help students clarify ideas that have multiple parts.
• Strategies contain general guidelines for accomplishing tasks and are useful for sharpening students’ problem-solving skills.
• Procedures are similar to Strategies, but are more specific and more algorithmic, designed to give students a step-by-step approach for problems.
• Function Galleries show families of functions and their graphs, helping students link the visual aspects with the mathematical properties. These appear throughout the text as appropriate and are also gathered together at the end of the text for easy reference.
• Graphing calculator discussions throughout the text support and enhance algebraic conclusions but are not used to arrive at those conclusions. These are optional and may be skipped, although students who do not use a graphing calculator may still benefit from the graphs and technology discussions.

MILESTONES ALONG THE WAY: Section exercises and review material include the following exercise types so students can practice and check their progress.

• Exercises are arranged by difficulty, from easy to challenging. Exercises that require a graphing calculator are marked with an icon and may be skipped.
• NEW! Data used in examples, exercises, and chapter openers has been updated to make this text relevant for today’s students.
• NEW! The number of fill-in-the-blank exercises has been increased to help students master the concepts.
• NEW! The exercise sets now contain new headings that group the exercises by type: Concepts, Skills, and Modeling.
• NEW! Exercise sets now contain QR codes which link the exercises to solution videos on the Web.
• NEW! Many new Outside the Box exercises have been added so that there are now two of them at the end of every section.
• For Thought exercises are ten true/false questions that review the basic concepts in the section, check student understanding before beginning the exercises, and offer opportunities for writing and discussion. Answers are included in the back of the student edition.
• Hints suggest ways of approaching a problem and give a starting point to solve the application problem. These are given for approximately five application problems in every exercise set.
• Cumulative review exercises at the end-of-section exercises are designed to keep current the skills learned in previous sections and chapters. These exercises are under the heading “Review.”
• Writing/Discussion and Cooperative Learning exercises deepen students’ understanding by giving them the opportunity to express mathematical ideas in writing and to their classmates during small group or team discussions.
• Outside the Box problems are designed to get students (and instructors) to do some mathematics just for fun and encourage students to apply creativity to unique problems. The problems can be used for individual or group work. Answers are given in the Annotated Instructor’s Edition and complete solutions can be found in the Instructor’s Solutions Manual.
• Linking Concepts are multi-part exercises that require the use of concepts from previous sections to illustrate the links among various ideas. This feature can be found at the end of nearly every exercise set. Answers are given in the Annotated Instructor’s Edition, and full solutions can be found in the Instructor’s Solutions Manual.

TYING IT ALL TOGETHER: Chapter review material contains all of the following features to help students review and synthesize the material as they prepare for the road ahead.

• Highlights contain an overview of all of the concepts presented in the chapter along with brief examples to illustrate the concept.
• Chapter Review Exercises give students a comprehensive review of the chapter without reference to individual sections in order to prepare them for the chapter test.
• Chapter Tests measure the students' readiness for a typical one-hour classroom test. Instructors may also use them as a model for their own end-of-chapter tests.
• Index of Applications list the many applications contained within the text. The applications are page referenced and grouped by subject matter.

IMPROVE RESULTS WITH MyMathLab^®: MyMathLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed and provides engaging experiences that personalize learning.

• Video Notebook: This printed guide gives students a structured place to take notes as they watch the videos. Definitions, examples, and important concepts are highlighted, and helpful hints are pointed out along the way.  The notebook is available in MyMathLab.

• Video assessment is tied to the video lecture for each section of the book to check student’s conceptual understanding of important math concepts. Instructors can assign these questions as a prerequisite to homework assignments.

• Getting Ready: Skill review quizzes are assignable throughout the course, testing students on prerequisite knowledge. From these quizzes, each student receives a personalized homework assignment to refresh forgotten concepts.
• Adaptive Study Plan: Pearson now offers adaptive learning functionality that continuously analyzes student work and points them toward resources that will maximize their potential for understanding and success.
• Enhanced Graphing Functionality: New functionality within the graphing utility allows graphing of 3-point quadratic functions, 4-point cubic graphs, and transformations in exercises.

MILESTONES ALONG THE WAY: Section exercises and review material include the following exercise types so students can practice and check their progress.

• Data used in examples, exercises, and chapter openers has been updated to make this text relevant for today’s students.
• The number of fill-in-the-blank exercises has been increased to help students master the concepts.
• New headings group the exercises by type: Concepts, Skills, and Modeling.
• QR codes link the exercises to solution videos on the web.
• Many new Outside the Box exercises have been added so that there are now two of them at the end of every section.

CONTENT CHANGES:

• Data used in examples, exercises, and chapter openers has been updated to make this text relevant for today’s students.
• The number of fill-in-the-blank exercises has been increased to help students master the concepts.
• Section 3.4 Miscellaneous Equations has been moved to Chapter 1 to give Chapter 3 a better flow and less material.
• Section 1.5 Scatter Diagrams and Curve Fitting has been moved to Online Appendix A so that Chapter 1 still has seven sections. 
• The exercise sets now contain new headings that group the exercises by type: Concepts, Skills, and Modeling.
• Exercise sets now contain QR codes, which link the exercises to videos on the web.
• Many new Outside the Box exercises have been added so that there are now two of them at the end of every section.
• Many calculator screen shots have been updated to the TI-84 Plus calculator.
• Suggested homework problems are indicated in the Annotated Instructor’s Edition.  Each section contains approximately 20 underlined exercise numbers, chosen by the author, that can be used as an initial assignment of homework exercises.