Mathematics All Around

For courses in liberal arts mathematics. Given their widely varying backgrounds, students in Liberal Arts Math often enter the course with math anxiety. Pirnot's Mathematics All Around offers the supportive and patient writing style that students need to overcome that apprehension, developing useful skills through realistic applications that can be seen in the world around them. Relevant and approachable, the author's tone resembles the support students would receive during an instructor's office hours. The author emphasizes a problem-solving approach, reinforcing problem-solving methods and how to apply them throughout the text. The 6th Edition keeps students engaged with updated real-world applications, while also providing more support as they learn with new measurable objectives, revised exercise sets, significant enhancements to each chapter, as well as a new student Workbook. Also available with MyLab Math. MyLab(TM) Math is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and engage with media resources to help them absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyLab(TM) does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyLab, search for: 0134800168 / 9780134800165 Mathematics All Around Plus MyLab Math -- Title-Specific Access Card Package, 6/e Package consists of: 0134434684 / 9780134434681 Mathematics All Around 0134751744 / 9780134751740 MyLab Math with Pearson eText -- Standalone Access Card -- for Mathematics All Around

* Problem-solving principles and strategies are introduced in chapter one and are used consistently throughout the text. * Of Further Interest sections appear at the end the chapter, and cover current topics that are exciting for students but are not typically part of the standard curriculum. * Statement Headings provide the students with a clear idea of the concept being discussed and are useful when reviewing for exams. * Applications motivate the discussion of the mathematics and increase student interest in the material. * Quiz Yourself questions are found throughout each section, and allow students to gauge their level of understanding before moving on to the next concept. * Some Good Advice is a feature that provides students with timely hints, tips, cautions and warnings about the material being covered. * Highlights are boxed features that consist of historical notes or biographical vignettes, uses of technology, and interesting applications.

Books a la Carte are unbound, three-hole-punch versions of the textbook. This lower cost option is easy to transport and comes with same access code or media that would be packaged with the bound book. Pirnot's Mathematics All Around offers the supportive and clear writing style that you need to develop your math skills. By helping to reduce your math anxiety, Pirnot helps you to understand the use of math in the world around you. You appreciate that the author's approach is like the help you would receive during your own instructors' office hours. The Fifth Edition increases the text's emphasis on developing problem-solving skills with additional support in the text and new problem-solving questions in MyMathLab. Quantitative reasoning is brought to the forefront with new Between the Numbers features and related exercises. Since practice is the key to success in this course, exercise sets are updated and expanded. MyMathLab offers additional exercise coverage plus new question types for problem-solving, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and more.

Ideas, puzzles, games from around the world, historic background, graphics, and recent math breakthroughs, from the author of The joy of mathematics and The mathematics calendar. Published by Wide World Publishing, PO Box 476, San Carlos, CA 94070. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR