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Mathematics for Machine Technology 5e

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Temple College in Temple, Texas was awarded a $600K Grant to update the skills of the workers in industry. The math skills of the existing and new employees are exceptionally low. The difference between normal math as I call it and the aproach of the "Mathematics for Machine Technology" is that the students do not know where to apply the math that they have learned. With Mathematics for Machine Technology the aproach is applied mathmatics. This math is applied every day in the industry and now the math becomes functional. This is a great teaching aid to use by itself or to complement the math that is now being taugh. I bring measuring instruments such as verniers, caliphers, micromenters and others into the teaching enviroment to stress where the math is used.

I do not recommend this book for private study. And, after reading some of the other reviews about missing or incorrect content, I probably would not recommend it for purchase - period. The problem I have with the book is that I discovered that the even number quizes do not have answers provided in the answer section of the book. I contacted the publisher about this problem and was told that they could not give me the answers to the even numbered test sections; to imply that only the instructor materials will have the answer. Now, to get around that problem I would either have to be an authorized instructor or become a student. Without all of the answers to the quizes I can only test myself on half of the subject matter. The instructor materials should be considered ADDITIONAL/SEPARATE training aids to the course of study. It should be the Instructors decision as to how to test; not the publisher. In my opinion the only reason I see for the publisher to not including all answers is to drive up the cost by forcing me to have to attend some formalized class which in turn forces the school to purchase the instructor materials just to allow me to have access to the full benefits of the reference book that I've already paid full retail price. So, now I'm stuck with this over priced substand book.

This book is great as far as textbooks go, great practical examples of problems from the machine shop, good insturctions, covers a wide range, I bought it for the trig and geometery.

I was disappointed after going through this text book and discovered several missing pages. Granted I did buy it used, but there were no indications that it would be missing pages. Other than that the text is great.

I would not buy from this seller. i ordered a TEXTBOOK from this seller and it took over three weeks for it to arrive.