Basic Mathematical Skills with Geometry

New to this edition

• Six sections at the beginning of the text open with a suggestion on "Overcoming Math Anxiety."
• ALEKS
• Material on lines, angles, and triangles has been added.
• NetTutor is a revolutionary new web-based learning environment for the live dissemination of mathematical content. NetTutor offers your students live, personalized tutoring via the internet. Using NetTutor's powerful WWWhiteboard software, students can post a question and receive prompt feedback from an expert in their subject. The WWWhiteboard allows students and tutors to use proper mathematical notation as well as other highlighting features--truly making this a unique learning experience. Students may also post questions to the Q&A Center and receive a reply within 24 hours. Visiting the Message Center allows students to discuss difficult concepts among themselves, while the Archive Center provides a browseable list of questions and answers maintained by the subject tutor. NetTutor is FREE and an invaluable aid for all students; the study partner who always has the answer.

• Chapter summaries and exercises are found at the end of every chapter and highlight main ideas. Cumulative reviews begin with Chapter Two and serve as a review of the major topics presented to that point in the text. There are pre-tests before each chapter.
• Exercise Sets and real-world applications support the NCTM/AMATYC Standards and expose students to a more active and meaningful understanding of mathematics and how it relates to everyday life. Technology examples and exercises support both scientific and graphing calculators.
• Active Learning is stressed via "Check Yourself" boxes which follow every example. Students are asked to apply what they have just learned and are able to receive immediate feedback.
• Emphasis on modeling real phenomena. This is accomplished by means of mathematical relationships.
• Text is available on Primis.
• This text is packaged with a free text-specific CD. The SMART CD contains algorithmically generated problems at the chapter and section level, as well as tutorials for each section.

• 1 Operations on Whole Numbers
• 2 Multiplying and Dividing Fractions
• 3 Adding and Subtracting Fractions
• 4 Decimals
• 5 Ratios and Proportions
• 6 Percents
• 7 Geometry and Measure
• 8 Data Analysis and Statistics
• 9 The Real Number System
• 10 An Introduction to Algebra