Mathematical Applications for the Management, Life, and Social Sciences

Applications: Numerous real-life application examples and exercises motivate the material and demonstrate the relevance of each topic.

Comprehensive Exercise Sets: While the overall variety and grading of drill and application exercises offer problems for different skill levels, there are enough challenging problems to stimulate students in thoughtful investigations. Many sets contain critical thinking and thought-provoking, multi-step problems that extend students' knowledge and skills.

Technology: An icon throughout the text denotes Technology Notes, Calculator Notes and Spreadsheet Notes. Step-by-step instructions for using the various features of a graphing calculator or Microsoft® Excel® are included in two appendices. These skills--and the modeling skills also discussed--can be omitted without loss of continuity.

Objective Lists: Every section begins with a brief list of objectives that outline the goals of that section and aid instructors in lesson planning and preparation.

Flexibility: To accommodate alternate teaching approaches, the text offers a great deal of flexibility in the order in which topics may be presented and the degree to which they may be emphasized. Consequently, the book can be adapted to variations in coverage and sequencing of topics at different colleges and universities, depending upon the purpose of the course and the nature of the student audience.

Checkpoints: Checkpoints ask questions and pose problems within each section's discussion, allowing students to check their understanding of the skills and concepts under discussion before they proceed.

Intuitive Viewpoint: The text is written with an emphasis on concepts and problem solving rather than mathematical theory. Each topic is carefully developed and explained, and examples illustrate the techniques involved.

Application Previews: Each section begins with an application that motivates the material and references a completely worked Application Preview example that appears later in the section.

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More step-by-step details for using graphing calculators have been integrated into the Calculator Notes in the text. The Calculator Guide for TI-84 Calculators in Appendix A provides additional details to supplement the Calculator Notes.

Many of the Spreadsheet Notes have been expanded to include specific Excel steps, along with references to Appendix B, which provides additional details to supplement the Spreadsheet Notes.

More than 250 real-data application examples, exercises and Group Projects have been updated or replaced to keep the material fresh and timely (projects are available online).