Mathematical Ideas, 13th Edition

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About the Textbook

Relevant applications engage students with a fresh focus on how math will apply to future careers. Students immediately get the relevance and importance of the concepts they’re learning.

• NEW! Chapter Openers connect the mathematics of the chapter to a particular career area, or in some cases, to an everyday life situation that will be important to people in virtually any career.

• NEW! When Will I Ever Use This? features show math in use in the day-to-day work of professionals from many different fields, so students can see how the math will be relevant to them.
• Margin notes throughout the text deal with various subjects such as lives of mathematicians, historical vignettes, anecdotes, and current research in mathematics. These notes have been updated where appropriate.
• UPDATED! Exercise sets contain more than 1,000 new or modified exercises, many of which focus on career applications to show students the relevance and importance of the topics. Applications containing real-life data have also been updated. Continuing to present a variety of exercises that integrate drill, conceptual, and applied problems, this program provides a wealth of opportunity for practice.

Student-driven features give students the tools they need to understand the skills and concepts presented.

• NEW! Learning objectives at the start of each section clearly detail exactly what students are expected to learn from each section.
• Numerous, carefully written examples illustrate the concepts and skills, giving students step-by-step directions for solving similar problems. Annotations clarify these examples and prepare students for the exercises that follow.
• Pointers in the examples provide students with on-the-spot reminders and warnings to help avoid common pitfalls.
• Problem-Solving Strategies found in specific sections relate the discussion of problem-solving strategies to techniques that have been presented earlier.
• For Further Thoughtentries encourage students to share their reasoning processes among themselves to gain a deeper understanding of key mathematical concepts.
• NEW! An extensive Chapter Summary includes Key Terms with definitions and graphics, New Formulas and Symbols, Test Your Word Power, and Quick Review that gives a brief summary of concepts from each section, with examples to illustrate.