Preface

Learning Objectives

Every section begins with a set of clear and concise learning objectives, which have been thoroughly revised to be both measurable and more closely aligned with current teaching practice. These objectives are designed to help the instructor decide what content to include or assign and to guide student expectations of learning. After completing the section and end-of-section exercises, students should be able to demonstrate mastery of the learning objectives.

Key Features

Check Your Understanding: Concept checks to confirm students understand content at the end of every section immediately before the exercise sets are provided to help bolster confidence before embarking on homework.

People in Mathematics: A mix of historic and contemporary profiles aimed to incorporate extensive diversity in gender and ethnicity. The profiles incorporate how the person's contribution has benefitted students or is relevant to their lives in some way.

Who Knew?: A high-interest feature designed to showcase something interesting related to the section contents. These features are crafted to offer something students might be surprised to find is so relevant to them.

Work It Out: Offers some activity ideas in line with the sections to support the learning objectives.

Tech Check: Highlights technologies that support content in the section.

Projects: A feature designed to put students in the driver's seat researching a topic using various online resources. It is intended to be primarily or wholly non-computational. Projects utilize online research and writing to summarize their findings.

Section Summaries

Section summaries distill the information in each section for both students and instructors down to key, concise points addressed in the section.

Key Terms

Key terms are bold and are followed by a definition in context.

Answers and Solutions to Questions in the Book

Answers for Your Turn and Check Your Understanding exercises are provided in the Answer Key at the end of the book. The Section Exercises, Chapter Reviews, and Chapter Tests are intended for homework assignments or assessment; thus, student-facing solutions are provided in the Student Solution Manual for only a subset of the exercises. Solutions for all exercises are provided in the Instructor Solution Manual for instructors to share with students at their discretion, as is standard for such resources.

Senior Contributing Author

Donna Kirk, University of Wisconsin at Superior

Donna Kirk received her B.S. in Mathematics from the State University of New York at Oneonta and her master's degree from City University – Seattle in Educational Technology and Curriculum Design. After teaching math in higher education for more than twenty years, she joined University of Wisconsin's Education Department in 2021, teaching math education for teacher preparation. She is also the director of a STEM institute focused on connecting underrepresented students with access to engaging and innovative experiences to empower themselves to pursue STEM related careers.

Contributing Authors

Barbara Boschmans, Northern Arizona University

Brian Beaudrie, Northern Arizona University

Matthew Cathey, Wofford College

Valeree Falduto, Palm Beach State College

Maureen Gerlofs, Texas State University

Quin Hearn, Broward College

Ian Walters, D'Youville College

Reviewers

Anna Pat Alpert, Navarro College

Mario Barrientos, Angelo State University

Keisha Brown, Perimeter College at Georgia State University

Hugh Cornell, University of North Florida

David Crombecque, University of Southern California

Shari Davis, Old Dominion University

Angela Everett, Chattanooga State Community College

David French, Tidewater Community College

Michele Gribben, McDaniel College

Celeste Hernandez, Dallas College-Richland

Trevor Jack, Illinois Wesleyan University

Kristin Kang, Grand View University

Karla Karstens, University of Vermont

Sergio Loch, Grand View University

Andrew Misseldine, Southern Utah University

Carla Monticelli, Camden County College

Cindy Moss, Skyline College

Jill Rafael, Sierra College

Gary Rosen, University of Southern California

Faith Willman, Harrisburg Area Community College