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Gary Rockswold teaches algebra in context, answering the question, “Why am I learning this?” By experiencing math through applications, students see how it fits into their lives, and they become motivated to succeed. Rockswold’s focus on conceptual understanding helps students make connections between the concepts and as a result, students see the bigger picture of math and are prepared for future courses.

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Applications are woven throughout to introduce mathematics topics and content. These contemporary examples draw from a wide variety of real data and enable students to see the relevance of math and become more effective problem solvers.
Making Connections features show how concepts throughout the course are interrelated by pointing out connections between previously learned material and new material.
Checking Basic Concepts exercises appear after every other section and can be used for individual or group review. These exercises require 10–20 minutes to complete and are also appropriate for in-class work.
Extensive exercise sets give students abundant opportunity for practice and review. Every exercise set has been revised to ensure that there are sufficient types of exercises for each mathematical concept and that there is a pairing of odd and even numbered exercises.
Comprehensive end-of-chapter material serves as an excellent resource for extra practice and test preparation. Each chapter concludes with a summary of key concepts, review exercises, and extended and discovery exercises.
Chapter R, Reference contains review material from intermediate algebra and basic geometry courses. This material is referenced by Algebra Review and Geometry Review margin notes.
A Graphing Calculator Appendix provides tips, techniques, and keystrokes for the popular TI-83, TI-83 Plus, and TI-84 Plus graphing calculators, allowing students to easily work on their own. This material is referenced by Calculator Help notes in the margins of the text.
“Now Try” exercise suggestions follow every example, allowing students to immediately reinforce the concepts as they are reading.
Cumulative Reviews, which appear every few chapters, require students to understand and use multiple skills from different chapters. This is an excellent test of comprehension of key concepts in the course.

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Getting Started pointers helps students develop an overall problem-solving strategy before they begin writing a detailed solution. These appear in examples that require multistep solutions.
Word problems now contain hints so that students know the first step to take in solving them.
Appendix C, Partial Fractions is included for students who need this topic for calculus.

Enhanced and Updated Features

Hundreds of new examples and exercises have been added throughout the text.
Updated or additional real-world data in examples, applications, and chapter and section openers make the text relevant for today’s students.
Each exercise set has been carefully revised to ensure that there are sufficient types of exercises for each example and mathematical concept. Exercise sets are carefully graded with several levels of difficulty.

Changes to the Content and Organization

Chapter 1 has been expanded from four sections to five sections. Increasing and decreasing functions, average rate of change, and the difference quotients are discussed in Section 1.5. Circles now appear in Section 1.2 instead of Chapter R.
In Chapter 2, piecewise-linear functions are now discussed earlier in Section 2.1
Complex numbers have been moved to Chapter 3 in a new section.
Chapter 4 has been expanded and reorganized from seven to eight sections, making it easier to cover one section per class. Division of polynomials and real zeros of polynomial functions are now in separate sections. Several topics, such as rational functions, have been revised and enhanced.
In Chapter 5 the change of base formula is now presented in Section 5.4, and additional modeling has been included in Section 5.7.
The first two sections in Chapter 6 have been reorganized so that systems of equations are discussed in Section 6.1 and systems of inequalities and linear programming are discussed in Section 6.2. Substitution and elimination are both presented in Section 6.1.
In Chapter R, additional problems involving factoring and rational expressions have been included.
The following is a partial list of topics that have been added or enhanced.

Order of operations
Rational functions and expressions
Factoring
Interpolation and extrapolation
Modeling real data
Graphing rational functions by hand
Concavity

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Functions and Graphs

1.1 Numbers, Data, and Problem Solving

1.2 Visualizing and Graphing Data

1.3 Functions and Their Representations

1.4 Types of Functions

1.5 Functions and Their Rates of Change

2. Linear Functions and Equations

2.1 Linear Functions and Models

2.2 Equations of Lines

2.3 Linear Equations

2.4 Linear Inequalities

2.5 Absolute Value Equations and Inequalities

3. Quadratic Functions and Equations

3.1 Quadratic Functions and Models

3.2 Quadratic Equations and Problem Solving

3.3 Complex Numbers

3.4 Quadratic Inequalities

3.5 Transformations of Graphs

4. More Nonlinear Functions and Equations

4.1 More Nonlinear Functions and Their Graphs

4.2 Polynomial Functions and Models

4.3 Division of Polynomials

4.4 Real Zeros of Polynomial Functions

4.5 The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra

4.6 Rational Functions and Models

4.7 More Equations and Inequalities

4.8 Radical Equations and Power Functions

5. Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

5.1 Combining Functions

5.2 Inverse Functions and Their Representations

5.3 Exponential Functions and Models

5.4 Logarithmic Functions and Models

5.5 Properties of Logarithms

5.6 Exponential and Logarithmic Equations

5.7 Constructing Nonlinear Models

6. Systems of Equations and Inequalities

6.1 Functions and Systems of Equations in Two Variables

6.2 Systems of Inequalities in Two Variables

6.3 Systems of Linear Equations in Three Variables

6.4 Solutions to Linear Systems Using Matrices

6.5 Properties and Applications of Matrices

6.6 Inverses of Matrices

6.7 Determinants

7. Conic Sections

7.1 Parabolas

7.2 Ellipses

7.3 Hyperbolas

8. Further Topics in Algebra

8.1 Sequences

8.2 Series

8.3 Counting

8.4 The Binomial Theorem

8.5 Mathematical Induction

8.6 Probability

Reference: Basic Concepts from Algebra and Geometry

R.1 Formulas from Geometry

R.2 Integer Exponents

R.3 Polynomial Expressions

R.4 Factoring Polynomials

R.5 Rational Expressions

R.6 Radical Notation and Rational Exponents

R.7 Radical Expressions

Appendix A: Using the Graphing Calculator

Appendix B: A Library of Functions

Appendix C: Partial Fractions

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College Algebra with Modeling and Visualization, 3/E
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Gary Rockswold focuses on teaching algebra in context, answering the question, “Why am I learning this?” and ultimately motivating the students to succeed in this class. In addition, the author's understanding of what instructors need from a text (great 'real' examples and lots of exercises) makes this book fun and easy to teach from. Integrating this textbook into your course will be a worthwhile endeavor.
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Dr. Gary Rockswold has been teaching mathematics for 25 years at all levels from seventh grade to graduate school, including junior high and high school students, talented youth, vocational, undergraduate and graduate students, and adult education classes. He is currently employed at Minnesota State University, Mankato, where he is a full professor of mathematics and the chair of the mathematics department. He graduated with majors in mathematics and physics from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Iowa State University. He has an interdisciplinary background and has also taught physical science, astronomy, and computer science. Outside of mathematics, he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children.

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