This edition features the exact same content as the traditional text in a convenient, three-hole- punched, loose-leaf version. Books a la Carte also offer a great value—this format costs significantly less than a new textbook. What does your math course have to do with the latest TV shows or Hollywood movies? Plenty–if you're using the right text. Mathematical Ideas, Twelfth Edition brings the best of Hollywood into the classroom through descriptions of video clips from popular cinema and television. Well-known author John Hornsby's innovative approach is enhanced with great care in this revision, and refined to serve the needs of you and your instructor. Streamlined and updated, it offers a modernized design, new bubble pointers for Example annotations, and much more. It retains the consistent features, friendly writing style, clear examples, and exercise sets for which this text is known.
With great care and effort, the authors have crafted this new edition to serve the needs of today's students and instructors.
Designed with a variety of students in mind.
In math, like any subject, real learning takes place when students can connect what they already know to new ideas. In "Connecting Mathematical Idea"s, Jo Boaler and Cathy Humphreys offer...
By exploring the subject through its 50 key insights--from the simple (the number one) and the subtle (the invention of zero) to the sophisticated (proving Fermat's last theorem)--this book shows how mathematics has changed the way we look ...
Other children aren't convinced, but identifying the mystery object as an onion appears to be the most compelling ... They learn that this is a bulb for an amaryllis plant and that it will take several weeks before it 158 SHOW AND TELL.
This is a lucid introduction to some of the mathematical ideas which are useful to biologists. Professor Maynard Smith introduces the reader to the ways in which biological problems can...
In this charming volume, a noted English mathematician uses humor and anecdote to illuminate the concepts of groups, sets, subsets, topology, Boolean algebra, and other mathematical subjects. 200 illustrations.
In this truly one-of-a-kind book, Ascher introduces the mathematical ideas of people in traditional, or "small-scale", cultures often omitted from discussion of mathematics.
The 14th Edition updates and enhances the text's hallmark features, and expands its robust MyLab(tm) Math course to include StatCrunch® applets, animations, corequisite course material, new section lecture videos, and much more.
For use in schools and libraries only. Presents mathematical ideas through poetic dialogues intended to be read by two people.