Thinking Mathematically with Integrated Review and Learning Guide plus NEW MyLab Math with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package, 2nd Edition

How the co-requisite MyMathLab^® course works:

1. Students begin a Thinking Mathematically chapter by completing a Skills Check assignment to pinpoint which developmental topics, if any, they need to review.
2. Students who demonstrate mastery of the review topics will move straight into the Thinking Mathematically content.
3. Those who require additional review proceed to a personalized review homework assignment that allows them to remediate on the specific topics where they need help. These students will also have access to additional review materials (worksheets, videos, and more) via the “Integrated Review” section at the start of each chapter in MyMathLab. After achieving mastery on the homework assignments, they can proceed to the college-level Thinking Mathematically content.

About Blitzer’s Thinking Mathematically:

MyMathLab improves results and is designed to work hand-in-hand with the book to offer additional practice and learning aids that improve student learning in measurable ways.

• Three MyMathLab course options are now available:
• The Standard MyMathLab course allows instructors to build their course their way, offering maximum flexibility and control over all aspects of assignment creation.
• NEW! A Ready to Go course provides students with all the same great MyMathLab features, but makes it easier for instructors to get started, with pre-made and pre-assigned homework and quizzes.
• NEW! An Integrated Review MyMathLab course option provides embedded review of select developmental topics. Assignments are also pre-assigned in this course, including a Skills Check quiz on prerequisite skills needed at the chapter level. Students who prove mastery can move on to the Thinking Mathematically content, while students who need additional review can remediate using videos and Integrated Review worksheets in the new Learning Guide. This course solution can be used in a co-requisite course model, or simply to help underprepared students master prerequisite skills and concepts.

• More than 3,000 assignable exercises give students the practice they need to master the material.
• Applications questions correlate to Bob Blitzer’s trademark chapter- and section-opening applications, so instructors can be sure that students are using them to learn and think about math.
• NEW! Getting Ready exercises are now available in the Standard and Ready to Go MyMathLab courses. These prerequisite skills questions enable students to refresh forgotten concepts.
• NEW! Concept and Vocabulary Check questions assess students’ understanding of the definitions and concepts presented in each section. These short-answer exercises precede the exercise sets in the text and are assignable in MyMathLab.
• Check Point Videos show instructors working out every Check Point problem in the text to ensure understanding. NEW! Assignable Check Point exercises in MyMathLab correspond to each Check Point video, ensuring that students watched the video and understood the concepts presented.
• NEW! MathTalk Videos are fun, application-based videos that connect the math in Blitzer to the real world. Presented by Andrew Vickers on location in New York and Boston, these instructional videos have a sense of humor while demonstrating how everyday life is full of math applications.
• Chapter Test Prep Videos show students how to work out solutions to the Chapter Tests in the book, and are available in MyMathLab and on YouTube^™.
• NEW! Student Success Module in MyMathLab. This new, interactive module is available in the left-hand navigation of MyMathLab and includes videos, activities, and post-tests for these three student success areas: 

• Math-Reading Connections, including topics such as Using Word Clues and Looking for Patterns. 
• Study Skills, including topics such as Time Management and Preparing for and Taking Exams.
• College Success, including topics such as College Transition and Online Learning.
• Instructors can assign these videos and/or activities as media assignments, along with pre-built post-tests to make sure students learn and understand how to improve their skills in these areas. Instructors can integrate these assignments with their traditional MyMathLab homework assignments to incorporate student success topics into their course as they deem appropriate.

Blitzer’s trademark applications keep students motivated and pull from timely real-world events and data.

• UPDATED! The latest applications and real-world data are compiled from hundreds of books, magazines, newspapers, almanacs, and online sites. For the Sixth Edition, 366 worked-out examples and application exercises are based on new data.
• Chapter openers and section openers present compelling applications, helping students to realize that mathematics is everywhere. Each vignette poses a question and explores how the section’s subject can be applied to answer the question. These scenarios are then revisited in the chapter or section.
• UPDATED! Blitzer Bonus enrichment essays appear throughout the text, covering a variety of interesting applications. In this revision, there are more new Blitzer Bonuses than in any previous edition.

Learning tools are fueled by Bob Blitzer’s unique background—degrees in psychology and mathematics, plus 30 years of teaching at Miami Dade College—giving students what they need to succeed in this course.

• Check Points follow each worked example with a similar problem so students have an opportunity to immediately test comprehension through additional practice. The answers to the Check Points are provided in the answer section. Videos walking through the Check Point problems are available in MyMathLab.
• NEW! Brief Reviews summarize math skills that students should have learned previously, but which many still need to review. These appear whenever a skill is first needed, eliminating the need to re-teach.
• NEW! Great Question! margin notes take study tips and present them in the context of student questions. These draw students' attention and curiosity more than a regular study tip and help students feel more comfortable with asking their questions in class. This feature is extended to the learning objectives at the beginning of each section, which are also now framed in the context of a student question: What am I supposed to learn?

• NEW! The new Learning Guide workbook helps students make the most of the Blitzer program. Organized by the text’s learning objectives, the Learning Guide provides a note-taking section along with side-by-side examples and practice problems, offering ample opportunity to reinforce skills and concepts. Additionally, questions about the MyMathLab Check Point and MathTalk Videos are tied in to each section. If your students need to review developmental topics to prepare for your course, Integrated Review worksheets can be used in tandem with the Integrated Review MyMathLab course option. Published in an unbound, binder-ready format, the Learning Guide can serve as the foundation for a course notebook, and can be packaged with the textbook and/or a MyMathLab access code.

• Clearly stated section objectives help students recognize and focus on the most important ideas. Objectives are restated in the margin when the concept appears in the text.
• Worked-out, annotated examples are written clearly and provide step-by-step solutions to help students work through “sticking points” that can cause frustration. Conversational annotations help students understand the solutions by providing the reasoning behind the mathematics.
• Voice balloons translate mathematical language into plain English, clarifying problem-solving procedures, presenting alternative ways of understanding, and connecting complex problems to the basic concepts students have already learned.

Abundant opportunities to practice, with extensive well-organized exercise sets and thorough end-of-chapter material, help students make the most of their homework and study time.

• Eight categories of exercises are available for maximum instructor flexibility: Practice Exercises, Application Exercises, Writing in Mathematics, Technology Exercises, Critical Thinking Exercises, Group Activity Exercises, Make Sense? Exercises, and new Concept and Vocabulary Check Exercises.
• NEW! Concept and Vocabulary Checks: 653 new short-answer exercises, mainly fill-in-the-blank and true/false problems, assess students' understanding of each section. These appear right before the exercise sets so that students can review as needed before getting into the homework.
• “Make Sense?” classroom discussion exercises contain four critical thinking exercises that foster participation in the learning process. These questions ask students to determine whether statements are sensible and then explain why or why not, encouraging students to think critically and put their thoughts into words.
• Chapter Summaries pull key definitions and important concepts together with examples to ensure students have mastered concepts.
• Chapter review exercises, a comprehensive collection of review exercises for each of the chapter’s sections.
• Chapter Tests enable students to assess their understanding of the contents from the entire chapter. Chapter Test Prep Videos–available in MyMathLab, or YouTube^™–work through every Chapter Test problem so students get extra help when studying.