Teach calculus the way you want to teach it, and at a level that prepares students for their STEM majors New co-author Chris Heil and co-author Joel Hass aim to develop students'' mathematical maturity and proficiency by going beyond memorization of formulas and routine procedures and showing how to generalize key concepts once they are introduced. Key topics are presented both formally and informally. The distinction between the two is clearly stated as each is developed, including an explanation as to why a formal definition is needed. Ideas are introduced with examples and intuitive explanations that are then generalized so that students are not overwhelmed by abstraction. Results are both carefully stated and proved throughout the book, and proofs are clearly explained and motivated. Students and instructors who proceed through the formal material will find it as carefully presented and explained as the informal development. If the instructor decides to downplay formality at any stage, it will not cause problems with later developments in the text. Expanded - PowerPoint ® lecture slides now include examples as well as key theorems, definitions, and figures.
The files are fully editable making them a robust and flexible teaching tool. Assess student understanding of key concepts and skills through a wide range of time-tested exercises Updated - Strong exercise sets feature a great breadth of problems -- progressing from skills problems to applied and theoretical problems -- to encourage students to think about and practice the concepts until they achieve mastery. In the 4th Edition , the authors added new exercises and exercise types throughout, many of which are geometric in nature. Writing exercises throughout the text ask students to explore and explain a variety of calculus concepts and applications. Technology exercises (marked with a "T") are included in each section, requiring students to use a graphing calculator or computer when solving. In addition, Computer Explorations give the option of assigning exercises that require a computer algebra system (CAS, such as Maple or Mathematica). Support a complete understanding of calculus for students at varying levels Each major topic is developed with both simple and more advanced examples to give the basic ideas and illustrate deeper concepts. Updated - Figures are conceived and rendered to provide insight for students and support conceptual reasoning.
In the 4th Edition , new figures are added to enhance understanding and graphics are revised throughout to emphasize clear visualization. Enhanced - Annotations within examples (shown in blue type) guide students through the problem solution and emphasize that each step in a mathematical argument is rigorously justified. For the 4th Edition , many more annotations were added. End-of-chapter materials include review questions, practice exercises covering the entire chapter, and a series of Additional and Advanced Exercises with more challenging or synthesizing problems. Check out the preface for a complete list of features and what''s new in this edition. Also available with MyLab Math MyLab(tm) Math is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform, MyLab Math personalizes the learning experience and improves results for each student. Learn more about MyLab Math.
Deliver trusted content Updated - Assignable Exercises: New co-author Przemyslaw Bogacki analyzed aggregated student usage and performance data from MyLab(tm) Math for the previous edition of this text. The results of this analysis helped improve the quality and quantity of text and MyLab exercises and learning aids that matter the most to instructors and students. There are approximately 8550 assignable exercises in MyLab Math, 490 of which are new to this edition. Enhanced - Setup & Solve Exercises: These exercises require students to show how they set up a problem as well as the solution, better mirroring what is required on tests. This new exercise type was widely praised by users of the 3rd edition, so more were added to the 4th edition. Each Setup & Solve Exercise is also now available as a regular question where just the final answer is scored. New - Additional Conceptual Questions focus on deeper, theoretical understanding of the key concepts in calculus. These questions were written by faculty at Cornell University under an NSF grant and are also assignable through Learning Catalytics(tm).
New - A full suite of Interactive Figures has been added to support teaching and learning. The figures are designed to be used in lecture as well as by students independently. The figures are editable using the freely available GeoGebra software. Videos that use the Interactive Figures to explain key concepts are also included. The figures were created by Marc Renault (Shippensburg University), Steve Phelps (University of Cincinnati), Kevin Hopkins (Southwest Baptist University), and Tim Brzezinski (Berlin High School, CT). Updated - Instructional videos: Over 200 instructional videos augment the already robust collection within the course. These videos support the overall approach of the text by going beyond routine procedures to show students how to generalize and connect key concepts. The Guide to Video-Based Assignments makes it easy to assign videos for homework by showing which MyLab Math exercises correspond to each video.
Teach your course your way Learning Catalytics: Now included in all MyLab Math courses, this student response tool uses students'' smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking during lecture. Learning Catalytics fosters student engagement and peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. Access pre-built exercises created specifically for calculus, including the additional conceptual questions. Empower each learner Integrated Review: This MyLab course features pre-made, assignable (and editable) quizzes to assess the prerequisite skills needed for each chapter, plus personalized remediation for any gaps in skills that are identified. Each student, therefore, receives just the help that he or she needs--no more, no less. New - Enhanced Sample Assignments: These section-level assignments include just-in-time prerequisite review, help keep skills fresh with spaced practice of key concepts, and provide opportunities to work exercises without learning aids so students check their understanding.