Emphasizing conceptual understanding, this calculus text includes real world applications and stresses multiple representations - numerical, visual, algebraic, and verbal interpretations. The concept of derivative is covered before the rules of differentiation are developed. This approach gives students a conceptual understanding of and an opportunity to work with the derivative and before they are introduced to the "rules'" or formulas. The problems maintain a balance between algebraic skills and conceptual understanding.
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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
This book is really difficult for new Calculus students!,
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This review is from: Calculus: Concepts and Contexts, Single Variable (Hardcover)
James Stewart has gone far and beyond from the ordinary math course. He uses good examples and excellent looking graphics. However, once you start doing the problems they soon become quite difficult after doing four or five of them. I have spoken to a different Calculus instructor, not mine, and he says the same thing. He said that the author did not publish enough simple, easy to do problems before immediately getting into real difficult problems. I give it 2 stars because it might be easy for a math major to understand this text, however this book is supposed to gear more towards first time Calculus students.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not enough covered in Stewart's Calculus:concepts&contexts,
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This review is from: Calculus: Concepts and Contexts, Single Variable (Hardcover)
The text is very good, straightforward, readable, and has great graphs (I especially like the sections with the graphing calculator). However, the book lacks a) the rigor and b) the amount of examples which would make it an excellent text. The sequences and series unit was cut a bit short, and there could have been more in the differential equations unit (like, for example, how to solve second-order differential equations). Overall, a good textbook.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bought one for home,
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