Discovering Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach, Student Edition

NEW AND REFRESHED APPLICATION PROBLEMS DEMONSTRATE THE RELEVANCE OF EACH TOPIC. Updated applications include recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau and technology students constantly use.

MORE EXPLANATION OF FAIR DIVISION GUIDES STUDENT LEARNING: More detail was added to examples to help students understand this interesting, yet challenging, topic.

MORE EMPHASIS ON PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF NONLINEAR FUNCTIONS: CHAPTER 6, Nonlinear Functions, has been revised to put more emphasis on the practical applications of those functions to provide relevancy to students' lives.

EXCEL HAS BEEN INTEGRATED INTO WEBASSIGN: Students can use this tool to solve problems for finance and statistics exercises. Spreadsheet templates are provided to the student for exercises that are data intensive.

REIMAGINED PROBLEM TYPES PROVIDE RELEVANCE AND EMPOWER STUDENTS: Traditional skill-building problems are recreated as word problems, providing context to the content and allowing students to practice interpreting and extracting data from sentences. This integration of skill-building and applications establishes the importance of mathematics in everyday life.

PRELIMINARY EXERCISES PROVIDE ADDITIONAL PRACTICE: Located at the beginning of each problem set, Preliminary Exercises provide an opportunity for the student to practice an exercise that is very similar to a worked example in the text. A complete solution for each Preliminary Exercise can be found in a solution section of the text.

NEW END OF CHAPTER, MULTI-PART EXERCISES DEMONSTRATE "MATH AT WORK": Math in Practice exercises expand on chapter learning objectives with real-world, applicable situations students can relate to in their daily lives, or their intended career tracks.

NEW LEARN IT MODULES ADDRESS STUDENTS’ KNOWLEDGE GAPS: Offering scaffolded help, Learn It modules provide just-in-time instruction that meets students’ diverse learning styles. Learn Its provide immediate, targeted instruction and practice for a topic. Explanations include clear narratives, videos and tutorials—all in one place.