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Each chapter focuses on a different type of modeling technique. Real data are used to provide relevance for students and to motivate them when creating and analyzing models. There are more than 2,400 exercises to be worked, and more than 400 figures, graphics, tables, and photographs support and clarify the text material.
This text uses a modeling approach to unify the traditional topics of finite mathematics and calculus. Use of graphing calculators is carefully integrated to support the modeling approach. The authors apply graphical, numerical, and symbolic techniques to motivate understanding.
Detailed solutions to odd-numbered problems and strategies for solving additional exercises.
Volume II is a follow-up covering finite math topics, multivariable calculus, and least squares regression. Appropriate as the 2nd semester materials to a Math for Business course. The text's overall approach is problem-driven with topics motivated and developed using interesting and useful real-world examples, many from actual student projects. The focus of the text is on the entire process of problem-solving, including the formulation and validation of mathematical models. It emphasizes conceptual understanding so students can use techniques and technology intelligently as a tool for solving real problems. (Graphing calculator and/or spreadsheet are recommended.)
Detailed solutions to even-numbered problems and strategies for solving additional exercises.
Still another book on finite math? Why? Hasnt everything that should have been said been said? No, I would argue. The shortcoming that troubles me most about the books I am familiar with is their failure to provide perspective on what math technique and the use of technology can do for us and its limitations. This can only be addressed through vigorous and sustained use of the mathematical modeling perspective, which is a hallmark of this books exposition. A point continually stressed is that reaching a mathematical answer to a problem is not the end of the story. It is in a sense the end of a chapter, but the next chapter is concerned with questions about whether and how the mathematical answer should be implemented. Also addressed is the question of what to consider when more than one answer is obtained for a problem.