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Experiencing Math in Context: Rockswold/Krieger’s unique approach presents students with the math in context first, before explaining the abstract mathematical theory behind it. This gives students a familiar and concrete foundation to build the concepts on. Math in the context of the real world is emphasized throughout - both to engage students’ interest, and to help them grasp mathematical concepts through tangible applications.

Connecting Concepts with Your Life reinforces students’ knowledge needed to understand a new concept. The new Connecting Concepts with Your Life feature gives meaning to mathematics by relating common life experiences that students already understand
Math in Context engages students by connecting mathematics to current and relevant topics. This new feature helps students recognize when and how math connects to everyday life
UPDATED! Applications engage students by connecting mathematics to current and relevant topics. Several new examples have been added that discuss the mathematics of the Internet, social networking, tablet computers, and other contemporary topics
Modeling Data in hundreds of exercises and examples offer students the chance to model real and relevant data with their own functions
Online Exploration exercises invite students to find their own data on the Internet and use mathematics to analyze it.

Understanding and Visualizing the Concepts: The Rockswold/Krieger approach excels at promoting conceptual understanding above procedural skills. Additionally, an emphasis on visualization provides opportunities for students with different learning styles to successfully absorb the information presented.

See the Concept presents a concise, visual overview of topics that were previously written out as text. Visualizing the math makes it accessible to all students. Companion See the Concept videos in MyLab Math, presented by the authors, help bring the concept to life. Each See the Concept video also has accompanying MyLab Math assessment questions, making these videos truly assignable
Comment Balloons appear next to steps and procedures to make them more (immediately) understandable
Guided Workbook is keyed to the text by section and objective and leads students through the course, giving them the opportunity to record key information, work practice problems, and show and keep their work for reference–as well as taking conceptual understanding one step further by asking students to explain Why? after select questions.

Practicing and Mastering the Concepts: Ample opportunity for students to practice and review the concepts and skills ensures students retain what they’ve learned.

Objective Lists at the beginning of each section give a clear outline of the section contents, making it easier to customize the course

Also Available with MyLab Math.

MyLab^™ 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 pursue a personalized study plan that helps them absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. The 4th Edition continues to help students develop conceptual understanding and bring key concepts to life with content and assignments that reflect the authors’ approach, including new Section Introduction videos and See the Concept videos with assessment. New Skill Builder assignments offer adaptive practice to build students’ foundational skills, and new workspace assignments allow students to show their mathematical reasoning as they progress step-by-step, with specific feedback at each step in the problem-solving process that adjusts to their path.

Expanded assignable content brings the hallmark Rockswold/Krieger approach into the MyLab course

See the Concept videos, created entirely by the authors,bring key concepts to life by providing a visual overview of each See the Concept feature in the text. Visualizing the math makes the content accessible to all students
Section Introduction videos, also created entirely by the authors, are available for every section of the text. These videos introduce the section’s concepts in a contextual setting, giving students an engaging and concrete introduction to the topics they’ll explore
Video assessment questions are available for all See the Concept and Section Introduction videos. This allows instructors to assign the video and encourage students to watch them to reinforce conceptual understanding. In addition to Section Introduction and See the Concept videos, the complete video program includes section lectures, objective-level videos, and example-level videos, along with Chapter Test Prep videos that cover complete solutions from the Chapter Tests
EXPANDED! In addition to end of section exercises, additional content from the text, including many of the Reading Checks, Making Connections, and Critical Thinking features, is available in MyLab Math for instructors to assign
Drag and Drop exercises allow students to manually select elements of the question, such as expressions, words, graphs, or images, and place them into a designated target area. This interactive, new exercise type assesses and reinforces students’ grasp of key concepts
A three-step learning path in MyLab Math encourages students to first Connect with the Math, then Review, and then Practice. The learning path encourages students to take advantage of the resources in their course, such as the See the Concept videos, and to review the section, before going right to their assignments
Guided Workbook is keyed to the text by section and objective and leads students through the course, giving them the opportunity to record key information, work practice problems, and show and keep their work for reference–as well as taking conceptual understanding one step further by asking students to explain Why? after select questions.

Expanded functionality makes MyLab Math more personalized and targeted than ever

Skill Builder offers adaptive practice to build students’ foundational skills as they complete their assignments. By monitoring student performance on their homework, Skill Builder adapts to each student’s needs and provides just-in-time, in-assignment practice to help them improve their proficiency of key learning objectives
Workspace Assignments allow students to show their mathematical reasoning as they progress step-by-step, with specific feedback at each step in the problem-solving process that adjusts to their path. When accessed via a mobile device, workspace exercises use handwriting recognition software that allows students to naturally write out their answers with their fingertip or stylus
An Integrated Review MyLab Math course is an alternate version of the MyLab Math course that provides the full suite of supporting resources for Beginning & Intermediate Algebra, plus additional assignments and study aids for students who will benefit from remediation on prerequisite topics. Assignments for the integrated review content are preassigned in MyLab Math, making it easier than ever to create your course!

Foster student engagement and peer-to-peer learning

Learning Catalytics^™ is available through MyLab Math, and helps instructors generate class discussion, customize lectures, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking. A library of premade developmental math questions are available in MyLab Math to give instructors a starting point for using this classroom engagement tool.

Beginning & Intermediate Algebra Content Changes: In addition to new and updated features, the following refinement of content has taken place for the 4th edition.

Chapter 1: New exercises were added throughout the chapter, with an emphasis on expanding the coverage of translating words to expressions and identifying parts of a fraction.
Chapter 2: A completely new section on unit analysis was added. At the request of reviewers, inequality answers now include interval notation. Over 50 new exercises were also added throughout the chapter, with an emphasis on linear equations and their solutions.
Chapter 3: New examples and exercises were added to cover graphing nonlinear equations by hand. Also, at the request of reviewers, intercepts are now identified as ordered pairs rather than a real number.
Chapter 4: Supply and demand examples and exercises involving systems of linear equations were added to this chapter.
Chapter 5: The exercises pertaining to rules for exponents were expanded and more clearly categorized in the exercise sets.
Chapter 6: New examples and exercises that require students to rearrange terms before factoring by grouping were added to this chapter.
Chapter 7: The description of least common multiple now includes a more visual, contextual explanation involving the listing method.
Chapter 8: We put more emphasis on solving absolute value inequalities symbolically. A new objective that more fully discusses the concept of a relation was inserted before the definition of a function, and exercises were added that give students practice differentiating between relations and functions. Also, a new objective on piecewise-defined functions was added in Section 8.3, with corresponding exercises in both Sections 8.3 and 8.4.
Chapter 9: New exercises that ask students to represent simple social networks with matrices were added to this chapter.
Chapter 10: The coverage of using zeros to write the formula for a function was expanded in Sections 10.5 and 10.7.
Chapter 11: A new graphical description for deriving the formula to find the vertex of a parabola is now included. Also, a real-world example was added to highlight a common situation in which a quadratic equation might have zero, one, or two solutions. This chapter additionally includes increased coverage of complex solutions to quadratic equations.
Chapter 12: A discussion connecting social network posts with half-life and exponential decay is now included to give students a relevant and accessible example of this important concept. At the request of reviewers, we expanded the coverage of changing between exponential and logarithmic forms of equations.
Chapter 13: New exercises involving the equation of a circle were added.
Chapter 14: In this final chapter, the coverage of writing a formula for a sequence from given terms of the sequence was increased.

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