• Engage students with the mathematical world around them.
• • UPDATED! Outstanding applications from diverse fields are the centerpiece of this series, drawing from the author''s unique background in behavioral science. Students stay engaged when they see the context and understand the relevance of math. In this new edition, the author continues to raise the bar with new applications throughout that are relevant to college students, including student-loan debt, grade inflation, political orientation of college freshmen, sleep hours of college students, and the number of hours college students study per week.

• Support students of all majors in their goal to be successful--in this course and beyond.
• • Achieving Success boxes appear at the end of many sections in Chapters 1 through 5 with strategies for persistence and success in college mathematics courses.
  • "Retaining the Concepts" section exercises focus on objectives that appeared previously in the text, to ensure students continue to apply and maintain mastery of the material. If students are not certain how to solve one of these, they can refer to the specific section and worked example provided next to each exercise.

• Help students to study efficiently and apply their understanding with extensive and varied exercise sets
• • Learning Guide. Organized by the textbook''s learning objectives, the Learning Guide is available as a print supplement to help students make the most of their textbook for test preparation. Activities are now included to give students an opportunity to discover and reinforce the concepts in an active learning environment and are ideal for group work in class.
  • Brief Review boxes summarize the most critical prerequisite mathematical skills students should know in order to master the chapter''s objectives. This feature appears whenever a particular skill is first needed and eliminates the need for reteaching that skill. For more detail, students are referred to the appropriate section and objective in a previous chapter where the topic is fully developed.
  • Retaining the Concepts exercises are a chance for students to review previously covered objectives in order to help maintain their mastery of the material and keep skills fresh. Beginning with Chapter 2 each Exercise Set contains three review exercises under the header "Retaining the Concepts."  These exercises are also available to assign through MyLab(tm) Math.

Also available with MyLab Math

MyLab(tm) Math is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. The new edition continues to expand the comprehensive auto-graded exercise options. In addition, MyLab Math includes new options designed to help students of all levels and majors to stay engaged and succeed in the course. 

• Students enter the course with widely varying skill levels, so MyLab Math includes personalized support and targeted practice to help all students succeed.
• • Skill Builder offers adaptive practice that is designed to increase a student''s ability to complete assignments. By monitoring student performance on homework, Skill Builder adapts to each student''s needs and provides just-in-time, in-assignment practice to help them improve their proficiency of key learning objectives.
  • Workspace Assignments allow students to work through an exercise step-by-step, adjusting to the path each student takes and allowing them to show their mathematical reasoning as they progress, receiving feedback when and where they need it most. When accessed via a mobile device, Workspace exercises use handwriting recognition software that allows students to naturally write out their answers with their fingertip or stylus.

• Engage students with the mathematical world around them, and develop their visualization skills to strengthen their understanding of the concepts.
• • Blitzer Bonus Videos bring the applications from the text to life, helping students make visual connections to algebra and the world around them. These are ideal for the classroom, or they can be assigned to students in MyLab Math as media assignments or through the new exercises that assess conceptual understanding of the videos.         
  • Guided Visualizations are interactive figures that help students visualize the concepts through directed explorations and purposeful manipulation. They encourage active learning, critical thinking, and conceptual understanding, and they can be assigned as homework with correlating exercises. Additional Exploratory Exercises are available to help students think more conceptually about the figures and provide an excellent framework for group projects or lecture discussions. For easy access, Guided Visualizations are available in the Multimedia Library and are HTML based, making them compatible with iPad and tablet devices.

• Support students in their desire to be successful--in this course and beyond.
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