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Title: Survey of Mathematics With Applications by Gary P. Egan, Aimee L. Calhoun ISBN: 0201613239 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 2000 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3
Rating: 4
Summary: EXCELLENT REFERENCE FOR BEGINNING & ADVANCED UNDERGRADUATES
Comment: I have been teaching out of Angel & Porter for the last three years. It has quite a few good examples, though I agree with the first reviewer's comment that it does need more challenging problems.
Among the topics I have covered are: inductive reasoning, set concepts, symbolic logic, truth tables, algebra, applied geometry, probability, statistics, and mathematics of finance. Though the examples are laid out fairly well for those who are mathematically inclined, the teacher who happens to have quite a few students with weak mathematical skills is often finding himself or herself in situations of having to create ways to become an effective expositor of mathematical theorems and applications. In other words, by trying to explain what the authors are providing in their examples, the instructor is frequently shouldering the added burden of making this book come to life not only from a mathematical perspective but also from a communicative standpoint.
On a positive note, however, there are several excellent applications, and the range of topics is quite broad. Oftentimes there is a gap between the level of advanced high school mathematics and that of a four-year university that is so serious that even a student who performed A's in high school will struggle in the type of college math course he or she is placed in. Fortunately, Angel and Porter have been able to fill in quite a few of the missing pieces.
Rating: 1
Summary: Idiots
Comment: I taught from an earlier edition of this book at Ivy Tech in Bloomington, Indiana while working on a PhD at Indiana University. Ivy Tech had already selected this text. Too bad. While that was around 1994, I can still recall a number of FACTUAL ERRORS. I had to tell my students that the text was wrong. Among the errors: The clear implication (though not explicitly stated) that the algebraic numbers included all the reals - that is they didn't even seem to be aquainted with the transedentals; there was another error regarding conditional probabilities... I can't recall exactly, but I can remember showing the errors to fellow doctoral students (now at UN, Reno and UC, Davis) for a good laugh. What were the reviewers doing? I guess they're a bunch of incompetents as well. To the publisher: Have some real mathematicians review math books.
Rating: 4
Summary: Could use some more problems
Comment: This book does the job of teaching some mathematics to those with liberal-arts majors. However, over at Wayne State, we are constantly bemoaning the lack of extra problems for students to practice what they have learned (especially in light of the fact that we cover only half of the chapters of this book in a single one semester course). This is especially apparent with the probability and statistics chapters. Overall I can see this text being a commendable effort on the part of Angel and Porter to bring mathematics to those who would normally shun it.
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Title: A Survey of Mathematics With Applications: Student's Solutions Manual by Gary P. Eagan, Christine A. Dunn, Allen Angel ISBN: 0201809575 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $29.20 |
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Title: Major Problems in Civil War & Reconstruction by Michael Perman, Thomas G. Paterson ISBN: 0395868491 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 1998 List Price(USD): $40.76 |
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Title: College Algebra Graphs and Models (With Graphing Calculator Manual) by Marvin L. Bittinger, David Ellenbogen, Judith Penna, Judith A. Beecher ISBN: 0201616726 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $92.00 |
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Title: Teachers, Schools, and Society with Free Making the Grade CD and Online Learning Center Password Card by Myra Pollack Sadker, David Miller Sadker ISBN: 0072558423 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages Pub. Date: 26 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $98.70 |
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Title: American Government and Politics Today 2001-2002/With Infotrac by Steffen W. Schmidt ISBN: 0534571522 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 2001 List Price(USD): $92.95 |
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