How does this series help students prepare for Calculus?

Michael Sullivan developed key features to reinforce connections to Calculus.

• Calculus references appear where appropriate, and correct calculus notation is introduced, such as in the discussion on asymptotes and limits.
• Key terms are defined as they would be in a calculus course—e.g., limits, difference quotient, local maximum and minimum, absolute maximum and minimum—and the author often uses graphs to ask questions about these concepts.
• Calculus icons alert students to concepts and skills that they will see again when they reach a calculus course.
  

MyMathLab

Personalize learning with MyMathLab, an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with the texts in this series 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.With the new editions of Mike Sullivan's flagship Precalculus Series, the author focuses on MyMathLab features that help better prepare students and get them thinking more visually and conceptually.

Mike Sullivan III has developed Author in Action videos for the flagship Precalculus Series, authored by his father, Mike Sullivan. The Author in Action videos also include video assessment exercises, which assess students' conceptual understanding of the mathematics presented. The new Guided Lecture Notes help students take thorough, organized notes while watching the videos. Mike Sullivan III is also the co-author on the Sullivan/Sullivan Concepts Through Functions Precalculus Series (© 2015) and Sullivan/Sullivan Precalculus Series Enhanced with Graphing Utilities (© 2014).

His publications with Pearson cover developmental math, precalculus, and introductory statistics. Most recently, Mike has been highly involved in Course Redesign at Joliet Junior College. His experience in course redesign and writing texts for the college-level math and statistics courses gives him a unique insight into where students are headed after the developmental math track, and what they need to do to be successful. Mike is the father of three children and an avid golfer.