Instructor's Solutions Manual (Download Only) for College Algebra, 5th Edition

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PREPAREDNESS: Beecher/Penna/Bittinger’s MyLab Revision with Corequisite Support offers a complete college algebra MyLab™ Math course with review of key topics from developmental algebra. The authors carefully selected the prerequisite topics and created a new foundational video series that provides more context and instruction around key review concepts.

• How the Beecher MyLab Math Revision course works to support your corequisite and underprepared students:
• Students complete a Skills Check assignment to pinpoint what they need to review.
• Students who demonstrate mastery of the review topics can move straight into the college-level content.
• Those who require additional review proceed to a personalized homework assignment that allows them to practice just the topics where they struggle the most. Students will also have access to additional instructional materials (new videos, new worksheets and more). 

• Updated - To promote review, the Just-in-Time chapter now precedes Chapter 1 in the eText.
• New - The Corequisite Resource Notebook corresponds with the integrated review content. The notebookreviews key prerequisite topics, previews upcoming college algebra material, and provides a variety of classroom activities to solidify mathematical ideas. The Corequisite Resource Notebook is organized as follows:
• REVIEW:  28 prerequisite topic worksheets with guided examples to work through followed by exercises to check comprehension.
• INTERACTIVE PREVIEW: 22 hands-on practice worksheets with introductory examples and exercises of what is coming up in the main book.
• ACTIVITIES: 20 application-based activities organized by topic to enhance classroom time and promote peer-to-peer learning.
• Revised - Foundational video series provides more context and instruction around key review concepts. These assignable videos utilize lightboard technology that creates a personal experience and simulates an in-class environment. 
• Revised - Digital enhancements increase students’ ability to learn, visualize, and retain concepts.
• New Set Up and Solve exercises require students to first describe how they will set up and approach the problem. This reinforces conceptual understanding of the process applied in approaching the problem, promotes long-term retention of the skill, and mirrors what students will be expected to do on a test.
• New Skill Builder offers adaptive practice that is designed to increase students’ ability to 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.
• New Guided Visualizations bring mathematical concepts to life. These interactive figures help students visualize the concepts through directed explorations and purposeful manipulation. They encourage active learning, critical thinking, and conceptual learning. Guided Visualizations are now available for both the Integrated Review topics and collegiate content, including all new coverage for Trigonometry. Assignable in MyLab Math.
• New Mindset videos and assignable, open-ended exercises are available to foster your students’ growth mindset. This material encourages students to maintain a positive attitude about learning, value their own ability to grow, and view mistakes as a learning opportunity — so often a hurdle for math students. 
• New College Algebra Essentials Video Series covers the essential topics a college algebra student needs to understand to be successful in this course.  Videos can be assigned in a MyLab Math homework assignment to remind students of the crucial content before students begin on their exercises.

VISUALIZATION: The authors take a visual approach to the course. An early introduction to functions allows for the use of graphs to provide a visual aspect to solving equations and inequalities. In addition, specific features enable students to “see the math” and make connections between concepts.

• New - Guided Visualizations bring mathematical concepts to life. These animated figures help students visualize the concepts through directed explorations and purposeful manipulation. They encourage active learning, critical thinking, and conceptual learning. Guided Visualizations are now available for both the review topics and collegiate content, including all new coverage for Trigonometry. Assignable in MyLab Math.
• Algebraic/Graphical Side-by-Side Examples present the solutions in a two-column format to help students understand the connection between algebraic manipulation and the graphical interpretation.
• Visualizing the Graph exercises help develop students’ ability to make the mental link between different types of equations and their corresponding graphs.
• Connecting the Concepts, a hallmark feature of the text, invites the student to stop and check their understanding of how concepts work together in one section or several sections. Concepts are summarized visually — using graphs, outlines, or charts — so that students deepen their understanding and make connections.

REVIEW: Ongoing review features throughout the text and MyLab reinforce the concepts and help students build understanding.

• New - Activities in the Coreq Notebook not only promote peer-to-peer learning but help solidify mathematical understanding of key topics.
• New - Concept Check exercises.  Found only in the MyLab, these exercises give students the opportunity to assess their grasp of the skills and concepts before they move on.
• Mid-Chapter Review exercises are one-page mixed review sets at logical breaks in the chapter, helping students to reinforce their understanding of the concepts. These exercises are assignable in MyLab Math.
• Vocabulary Review exercises appear in the last section of each chapter, and check students’ understanding of the language of mathematics. These are now assignable in MyLab Math and can serve as reading quizzes.
• Synthesis exercises, included at the end of each exercise set, encourage critical thinking by asking students to apply multiple skills or concepts within a single exercise.
• Review icons refer students to an earlier, related section where they can go to review prerequisite concepts that are needed for the current section.
• Just-In-Time Review: Review of prerequisite algebra topics is presented when students need it most. A set of 25 numbered short review topics creates an efficient review of intermediate algebra topics.
• This feature is placed at the front of the text before Ch 1. Just-In-Time icons are positioned throughout the text next to the example where review of an intermediate algebra topic would be helpful.
• New - Just-in-Time videos utilize lightboard technology that creates a personal experience and simulates an in-class environment.
• The Just-In-Time review topics are assignable in MyLab Math.
  

About the book

• Functions appear early and are integrated, reflecting the authors’ belief that functions are best taught as a theme of the course and not an isolated topic.
• Functions are introduced in Chapter 1 so that students start the course with a new topic rather than a review of equation-solving that was covered in previous math courses.
• Students will come to understand the concept of a function by being exposed repeatedly to the language, notation, and use of functions throughout the text.

• Classify the Function exercises, appearing in the Skill Maintenance section of the exercise sets, ask students to identify a number of functions by their type (linear, quadratic, rational, etc.). Throughout the text, the variety of functions increases and these exercises become more challenging.
• Technology Connections are optional sections that guide students in the use of the graphing calculator as another way to check problems.

• Zeros, solutions, and x-intercepts are a theme of the text. 
• The authors aim to help students see the connection between the real zeros of the function, the solutions of the associated equation, and the first coordinates of the x-intercepts of the graph. 
• When students develop their understanding of these connections, their probability of success increases for this course.

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