Math Lit: A Pathway to College Mathematics, 3rd Edition © 2022
Kathleen Almy | Heather Foes
Math Lit, 3rd edition prepares non-STEM students to move directly into liberal arts math or introductory statistics, while preparing STEM students for intermediate algebra. Emphasizing contextual problem solving, the authors approach each topic with two questions: How does it work and how can I use it? Students work through activities and explorations to gain a greater conceptual understanding of the four thematic strands: numeracy, proportional reasoning, algebraic reasoning, and functions. Topics from geometry and statistics are also included.
Hallmark features of this title
- Activity-based sections include carefully designed tasks, explorations and instruction, all paced for the developmental learner. Rather than covering topics in the same manner students may have seen them in high school, Almy and Foes use an active-learning approach to help students discover the topics in context.
- A focus problem presenting a current real-world issue introduces each cycle. They can be solved in groups and enable students to apply knowledge gained throughout the cycle to a larger, more involved problem that does not have just one correct solution.
- A spiraled approach means topics are not intended to be fully mastered when first encountered; instead, they are revisited throughout the cycles, in more depth or from a different perspective.
New and updated features of this title
- Active examples replace the worked examples to retain the active learning approach that many users like about the text. With active examples, the full solutions of these examples were removed from the printed text so that students in class can be guided by their instructors, working through rather than passively reading them.
- Icons denoting group, whole class or individual work along with time estimates have been added to the Explore, Discover, Connect, and Reflect parts of a section, visible only to instructors.
- The amount of practice was evaluated and increased if needed by the addition of problems in the section or the addition of Need More Practice? margin notes.
- A new Cycle 0 has been added to address the review of prealgebra content for students who may be underprepared, or courses where review of prerequisites is necessary.
- In the news replaces Getting Ready from the previous edition to appear after the mid-cycle recap. Instead of including a full article in the text, citations for multiple articles are provided to give instructors options. Questions are included for students to answer.
- A new focus problem is provided for each section. New focus problems include the package with rubric, writing template, and sample solution for instructors.
This program offers:
- The eTextbook includes text and video solutions to all active examples, giving students a worked example to reference, but not during class when they're meant to actively solve them.
- For instructors who want homework completed only in MyLab Math, assignable exercises cover all of the skills exercises from the text, along with most of the conceptual and applications questions from the text. A larger pool of exercises supports a variety of course formats.
- Videos in the course have been updated where necessary to reflect updates from the text. Videos walk students through examples, giving them an extra opportunity to reinforce and practice skills and concepts, and give instructors added flexibility and resources for various class formats.
Features of Pearson eTextbook for the 3rd Edition
- The eTextbook includes text and video solutions to all Active Examples, giving students a worked example to reference, but not during class when they're meant to actively solve them.
CYCLE ZERO WHICH TYPE OF NUMBER?
SELF-ASSESSMENT: PREVIEW
0.1 If the World Were a Village: Focus Problem
0.2 Keeping It Real: Types of Numbers and Rounding
Identify types of real numbers
Round whole numbers
0.3 It's All Relative: Integers and Their Operations
Interpret integers
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers
Solve application problems involving integers
0.4 Part and Whole: Rational Numbers and Their Operations
Interpret fractions
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions
In the News: Which SPF is Best?
0.5 What's the Point? Decimals and Their Operations
Interpret decimals
Round decimals
Add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals
0.6 On the Grid: Percent Representations and Calculations
Convert between fractions, decimal values, and percents
Calculate the base, amount, or percent in a percent problem
Calculate percent change
Cycle 0 Study Sheet
Self-Assessment: Review
Cycle 0 Wrap-Up
CYCLE ONE WHERE DO WE START?
SELF-ASSESSMENT: PREVIEW
1.1 Understanding the Opioid Epidemic: Focus Problem
1.2 Getting Started: Reviewing Prealgebra
Use Venn diagrams
Solve applied problems involving fractions
1.3 Hello, My Name Is: Graphing Points
Plot ordered pairs
Determine the coordinates of a point
Create and interpret line graphs
1.4 A Tale of Two Numbers: Ratios and Proportions
Interpret ratios
Scale ratios to produce equivalent ratios
Determine if quantities are proportional
1.5 Chances Are: Probability Basics
Find relative frequencies
Find and interpret experimental probabilities
1.6 An Ounce of Prevention: Means
Find and interpret the mean of a set of numbers
Use means in applied problems
1.7 Picture This: Making and Interpreting Graphs
Create and interpret pie graphs
Create and interpret bar graphs
Mid-Cycle Recap
In the News: Understanding Infection and Mortality Rates
1.8 Two by Two: Scatterplots
Create and interpret scatterplots
Sketch a curve to best fit a scatterplot
1.9 Multiply vs. Divide: Converting Units
Convert units by multiplying or dividing
1.10 Up and Down: Percent Change
Apply a percent change
Interpret percent change
1.11 The X Factor: Algebraic Terminology
Differentiate between variables and constants
Differentiate between expressions and equations
Differentiate between factors and terms
1.12 General Number: Recognizing Patterns
Make conjectures and generalize patterns
Identify and use arithmetic and geometric sequences
1.13 Social Network: Linear and Exponential Change
Model change with linear and exponential functions
1.14 Infinity and Beyond: Perimeter and Area
Calculate perimeter and area
Cycle 1 Study Sheet
Self-Assessment: Review
Cycle 1 Wrap-Up
CYCLE TWO HOW DOES THAT WORK?
SELF-ASSESSMENT: PREVIEW
2.1 Genetic Probabilities: Focus Problem
2.2 Rule of Thumb: Weighted Means
Find and interpret weighted means
Find the median and mode of a data set
2.3 Measure Up: Basic Exponent Rules
Apply basic exponent rules
Use geometric formulas
2.4 Count Up: Adding Polynomials
Identify and add like terms
2.5 A Winning Formula: Applying Order of Operations
Use the order of operations to simplify expressions
Evaluate formulas and expressions
2.6 Does Order Matter?: Rewriting Expressions
Apply the commutative and associative properties
2.7 Fair Share: Distributive Property
Apply the distributive property to expressions
Use the distributive property in applied contexts
2.8 Seat Yourself: Equivalent Expressions
Write an expression to represent a scenario
Determine if two expressions are equivalent by using the commutative, associative, and distributive properties
2.9 Parts of Speech: Using Operations Correctly
Distinguish between an operator and an object
Determine the object on which an operator is acting
Recognize when the distributive property can be applied
Mid-Cycle Recap
In the News: Misorder of Operations
2.10 A Fine Balance: Verifying Solutions
Verify a solution to an equation
2.11 Back and Forth: Writing and
Solving One-Step Equations
Write and solve one-step equations
2.12 Maintaining Balance: More Equation Solving
Solve multi-step linear equations
2.13 Quarter Wing Night: Writing and Solving Equations
Write an equation to model a situation
Solve a problem numerically and algebraically
2.14 Outwit and Outlast: Using Proportions
Write and solve proportions
2.15 Three of a Kind: Pythagorean Theorem
Use the Pythagorean theorem to find the length of a side in a right triangle
Solve problems using the Pythagorean theorem
2.16 What Are the Odds?: Theoretical Probability
Calculate theoretical probabilities
Compare theoretical and experimental probabilities
2.17 Size Up: Volume and Surface Area
Calculate volume and surface area
Cycle 2 Study Sheet
Self-Assessment: Review
Cycle 2 Wrap-Up
CYCLE THREE WHEN IS IT WORTH IT?
SELF-ASSESSMENT: PREVIEW
3.1 Growing Money: Focus Problem
3.2 What's Trending: Correlation
Determine if data has a positive or negative linear correlation
Graph the equation of the trendline
Use the equation of the trendline to make predictions
3.3 Constant Change: Slope
Find the slope of a line from points, tables, and graphs
Find and interpret slope in applications
3.4 Shortest Path: Distance Formula
Use the distance formula to find the distance between two points
3.5 Get in Line: Slope-Intercept Form
Find and interpret the slope and y-intercept from a linear equation
Graph a line using a table and using the slope and y-intercept
3.6 More or Less: Linear Relationships
Solve problems using linear equations, tables, and graphs
3.7 Chain, Chain, Chain: Writing Linear Equations
Write the equation of a line using a point and the slope
Write the equation of a line using two points
Create a linear model in an applied problem
3.8 Going Viral: Exponential Functions
Write the equation of an exponential function using a starting value and rate of change
Graph exponential functions
Model with exponential functions
Mid-Cycle Recap 348
In the News: Misleading Headlines
3.9 Untangling the Knot: Solving Nonlinear Equations
Solve nonlinear equations
3.10 Hot and Cold: Rewriting Formulas
Solve an equation for a specified variable
3.11 A Common Goal: Greatest Common Factors
Identify the greatest common factor for the terms in an expression
Factor an expression using the greatest common factor
3.12 Thinking Outside the Box: Factoring Quadratic Expressions
Factor quadratic expressions
3.13 A Formula for Success: The Quadratic Formula
Use the quadratic formula to solve equations
3.14 The Turning Point: Quadratic Functions
Identify a quadratic pattern in data
Find the vertex of a parabola
3.15 Systematic Thinking: Graphing and Substitution
Solve a 2 x 2 linear system of equations by graphing
Solve a 2 x 2 linear system of equations by substitution
3.16 Opposites Attract: Elimination
Solve a 2 x 2 linear system of equations by elimination
Cycle 3 Study Sheet
Self-Assessment: Review
Cycle 3 Wrap-Up
CYCLE FOUR WHAT ELSE CAN WE DO?
SELF-ASSESSMENT: PREVIEW
4.1 Scale Matters: Focus Problem
4.2 A Matter of Change: Dimensional Analysis
Convert units using dimensional analysis
4.3 Little Giants: Scientific and Engineering Notation
Convert numbers between scientific and standard notation
Convert numbers into and out of engineering notation
4.4 A Model Approach: Negative Exponents
Use exponent rules to simplify expressions that have negative exponents
4.5 Variation on a Theme: Standard Deviation
Find the standard deviation of a data set
Interpret the standard deviation of a data set
4.6 An Order of Magnitude: Understanding Logarithmic Scales
Interpret and use order of magnitude
Interpret and use logarithmic scales
Mid-Cycle Recap
In the News: Measuring Variation
4.7 Straight to the Point: Direct Variation
Identify direct variation from a graph, table, or equation
Write models for direct variation problems
Solve direct variation problems
4.8 Gas Up and Go: Inverse Variation
Identify inverse variation from a table or equation
Write models for inverse variation problems
Solve inverse variation problems
4.9 Ghost in the Machine: Function Notation
Use function notation
Find a function input or output given the other
4.10 What's Your Function?: Vertical Line Test, Domain, and Range
Apply the vertical line test
Find the domain and range from a graph or an equation
4.11 An Important Point: Vertex Form of a Quadratic Function
Identify the vertex of a quadratic function in vertex form
Graph a quadratic function in vertex form
Write the vertex form of a quadratic function given the vertex and a point
4.12 A Survey of Trig: Trigonometric Functions
Write the six trigonometric ratios for an acute angle
Use trigonometric functions to find the measures of sides and angles of a right triangle
Cycle 4 Study Sheet
Self-Assessment: Review
Cycle 4 Wrap-Up
Excel Appendix (online in MyLab Math only)
Answers (online in MyLab Math only)
Index
Applications Index
Kathleen Almy
Rock Valley College
Kathleen Almy has been a professor of mathematics at Rock Valley College for over 10 years and has taught high school- and college-level math for 15 years. She has a bachelor's degree in mathematics education from Southern Illinois University and master's degree in pure mathematics from Northern Illinois University. Her passion is improving developmental math for all students, including the development of courses and content that is appropriate, relevant and meaningful. As her department's developmental math coordinator, she organized and led a successful comprehensive redesign of the program. As a result of giving talks about the redesign, she has been consulting with colleges throughout Illinois and across the country to improve their developmental math programs. Since 2009, she has been a member of AMATYC's Quantway project which is affiliated with the Carnegie Foundation. She was American Mathematics Association of Two-Year Colleges Conference (AMATYC)'s Developmental Math Committee chair and serves on several state committees on developmental education.
Heather Foes
Heather Foes is currently a professor of mathematics at Rock Valley College in Rockford, Illinois and has also taught at Illinois State University, Northern Illinois University, and the University of Illinois. Heather has a bachelor's degree in chemistry and mathematics and a master's degree in mathematics from Illinois State University. She has written solution manuals and other supplemental materials over the last ten years, as well as algorithmic questions for test-generator software and conceptual questions for MyLab Statistics for Pearson.
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