Intermediate Algebra, Updated Media Edition (with CD-ROM and MathNOW(TM), Enhanced iLrn(TM) Math Tutorial, Student Resource Center Printed Access Card) (Available 2010 Titles Enhanced Web Assign) [Paperback]

Alan S. Tussy (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0495188891 | ISBN-13: 978-0495188896 | Publication Date: January 24, 2006 | Edition: 3

Become fluent in "the language of algebra" with INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA. This textbook will improve your ability to read, write, and communicate mathematical ideas. Tussy and Gustafson make learning easy with their five-step problem-solving approach: analyze the problem, form an equation, solve the equation, state the result, and check the solution. This edition also includes iLrn Testing and Tutorial; Personal Tutor with SMARTHINKING live online tutoring; the Interactive Video Skillbuilder CD-ROM with MathCue; a Book Companion Web Site featuring online graphing calculator resources; and The Learning Equation, powered by iLrn.

Editorial Reviews

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You have done a great job explaining to the students how to read and write mathematically. The writing component helps the student to retain the information and [it will] be helpful to them in a subsequent math course.

I really like these explanatory [author's] notes. They are similar to ones that I like to write on the chalkboard when I am lecturing. This is perhaps my favorite feature of the text. Martin-Gay does have similar explanatory notes, but Tussy/Gustafson has more detail. The authors have done a good job with this.

About the Author

Alan Tussy has written nine mathematics books -- a paperback series and a hard cover series. He belongs to the American Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges (AMATYC). He has taught at Citrus College since 1988 in the Mathematics department, educating in many levels of Mathematics from Prealgebra to Differential Equations.

R. David Gustafson, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Rock Valley College, earned a Master of Arts from Rockford College in Illinois, as well as a Master of Science from Northern Illinois University. He is the co-author of several other best-selling mathematics texts including Gustafson/Frisk's BEGINNING ALGEBRA, INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA, and BEGINNING AND INTERMEDIATE ALGEBRA: A COMBINED APPROACH, and the Tussy/Gustafson developmental mathematics series. He is the recipient of many professional honors, including Rock Valley Teacher of the Year and Rockford's Outstanding Educator of the Year. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 864 pages
• Publisher: Brooks Cole; 3 edition (January 24, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0495188891
• ISBN-13: 978-0495188896
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #828,393 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)