- September 2008
99.90 Euro
2008. 518 Pages, Softcover
ISBN-10: 0-470-41251-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-41251-0 - John Wiley & Sons








Detailed description
Workshop Precalculus provides students with a bridge to the study of calculus and helps them develop the confidence, understanding, and skills necessary for continuing their study of mathematics. Based on the premise that students learn better by doing and constructing their own knowledge, the Workshop approach involves instructors giving up some command and control of the classroom in favor of giving the students more responsibility for their own learning; this approach eliminates the distinction between classroom and laboratory work.

By systematizing and supporting a simple interactive teaching format, Workshop Precalculus helps instructors implement sound methods that alternate between three primary components: Summary Discussions, Introductory Remarks, and Collaborative Activities. While students benefit greatly from performing computations and symbolic manipulations and sketching graphs by hand, the text integrates the use of the graphing calculator so that students learn to regard technology as a valuable tool.

From the contents
Preface: To the Instructor ix
Preface: To the Student xv
Activity P-1: Using the Concept of Function to Buy Pizza xvi
Activity P-2: Getting Started with Your Graphing Calculator xviii
UNIT 1: PROPERTIES OF FUNCTIONS 1
Section 1: Analyzing Lnear Functions 3
Section 2: Analyzing Smooth Curves 26
Section 3: Representing Functions 60
UNIT 2: POLYNOMIAL AND RATIONAL FUNCTIONS 97
Section 1: Power Functions 98
Section 2: Polynomial Functions 127
Section 3: Rational Functions 169
UNIT 3: NEW FUNCTIONS FROM OLD 201
Section 1: Combining Functions 202
Section 2: Reflecting Functions 226
Section 3: Shifting, Stretching, and Compressing Graphs of Functions 259
UNIT 4: MORE FUNCTION CLASSES 301
Section 1: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions 302
Section 2: Trigonometric Functions 348
Section 3: Analytic Trigonometry 405
Appendix: Using the TI-83 Graphing Calculator in Workshop Precalculus 465
Index 509