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Beginning Algebra, 4/E
Elayn Martin-Gay, University of New Orleans, Lakefront

ISBN-10: 0131444441
ISBN-13: 9780131444447

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Cloth; 672 pp
Published: 04/22/2004
Status: Out of Print

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For college-level courses in beginning or elementary algebra.

Elayn Martin-Gay's success as a developmental math author and teacher starts with a strong focus on mastering the basics through well-written explanations, innovative pedagogy and a meaningful, integrated program of learning resources. The revisions provide new pedagogy and resources to build student confidence, help students develop basic skills and understand concepts, and provide the highest level of instructor and adjunct support.

Martin-Gay's series is well known and widely praised for an unparalleled ability to:

•Explain key concepts clearly with an excellent, accessible writing style.

•Build problem-solving skills with thoroughly integrated problem solving techniques and explanations.

•Relate to students through real-life applications that are interesting, relevant, and practical.

Martin-Gay believes that every student can:

•Test better: The new Chapter Test Prep Video shows Martin-Gay working step-by-step video solutions to every problem in each Chapter Test to enhance mastery of key chapter content.

•Study better: New, integrated Study Skills Reminders reinforce the skills introduced in section 1.1, "Tips for Success in Mathematics" to promote an increased focus on the development of all-important study skills.

•Learn better: The enhanced exercise sets and new pedagogy, like the Concept Checks, mean that students have the tools they need to learn successfully.

Martin-Gay believes that every student can succeed, and with each successive edition enhances her pedagogy and learning resources to provide evermore relevant and useful tools to help students and instructors achieve success.

How do you bring relevant topics into the course? Does/would it help engage students?

Updated real-world exercises and applications—Reinforce concepts crucial to students' success in developmental math. See the Applications Index for a complete list.

Spotlight on Decision Making applications—Gives students a workplace or job-related career situation and encourage them to make judgments to help develop life skills.

Thorough and integrated 4-step problem solving process: Understand, Translate, Solve and Interpret—Provides ongoing reinforcement of this important skill.

Innovative and Useful Pedagogy:
- Chapter Highlights provide definitions and examples for each section of the text for easy chapter review.
- Video Icons flag those exercises worked out on the Lecture Videos by Martin-Gay.
- Geometry Icons flag geometry-based problems.
- Vocabulary Checks help students test for mastery of key terms.

Thoroughly integrated Learning Resources Program:

Where do your students go for extra instruction when they need help?

Lecture Videos on CD Rom and VHS—Martin-Gay provides step-by-step solutions for section exercises marked with a video icon. Organized by chapter and section, these solutions give pointers and reminders about good problem solving skills. The CD version gives students easy access to video tutorial support when valuepacked with the text. VHS tapes are a key resource for the campus math lab for shared student use.

Where do your students get help the night before the test?

New Chapter Test Prep Video CD—Provides instant access to video solutions to every problem in the chapter test giving students an outstanding resource at one of their most likely "teachable moments" -- the night before the exam. This FREE CD-ROM is automatically packaged inside the back cover of every text.

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Do you assign homework? Do you grade it?

How do your students get feedback?

MyMathLab(r)—MyMathLab(r) is a complete online course designed to help students succeed in learning and understanding mathematics. MyMathLab contains an online version of your textbook with links to multimedia resources—such as video clips, practice exercises, and animations—that are correlated to the examples and exercises in the text. MyMathLab also provides students with online homework and tests and generates a personalized study plan based on their test results. The study plan links directly to unlimited tutorial exercises for the areas students need to study and re-test, so they can practice until they have mastered the skills and concepts in the textbook. All of the online homework, tests, and tutorial work students do is tracked in their MyMathLab gradebook.

MathXL(r)—MathXL(r) is a powerful online homework, tutorial, and assessment system that accompanies the text. With MathXL, instructors can create, edit, and assign online homework and tests using algorithmically generated exercises correlated at the objective level to your textbook. All student work is tracked in MathXL's online gradebook. Students can take chapter tests in MathXL and receive personalized study plans based on their test results. The study plan diagnoses weaknesses and links students directly to tutorial exercises for the objectives they need to study and retest. Students can also access supplemental animations and video clips directly from selected exercises. MathXL is available to qualified adopters. For more information, visit our website at www.mathxl.com, or contact your Prentice Hall sales representative for a product demonstration.
PH Tutor Center—Free tutorial support from developmental math faculty via phone, fax or email is available 5 days a week, 7 hours a day (Sunday-Thursday, 5pm e.s.t. to midnight). This service is accessed through a registration number that may be bundled with a new text or purchased separately with a used book. Visit www.prenhall.com/tutorcenter for FAQs.
TestGen—TestGen enables instructors to build, edit, print, and administer tests using a computerized bank of questions developed to cover all the objectives of the text. Using the built-in question editor, instructors can modify test bank questions; add new questions; create graphs; import graphics; and insert math notation, variable numbers, or text. Tests can be printed or administered online via the Internet or another network. TestGen comes packaged with QuizMaster, which allows students to take tests on a local area network. The software is available on a dual-platform Windows/Macintosh CD-ROM.
NEW - Chapter Test Prep Video CD—Gives students step-by-step video solutions to every problem in each Chapter Test. Martin-Gay works through each chapter test problem providing valuable review to enhance mastery of key chapter content. Easy video navigation allows students to instantly access the solution to any problem.

How do you teach your student's good study habits?

NEW - Study Skills Reminders—Provide a point-of-use resource throughout to reinforce the skills introduced in section 1.1, "Tips for Success in Mathematics" and create an increased focus on all-important study skill development.
NEW - "Integrated Reviews"—A unique, mid-chapter exercise set that helps students assimilate new skills and concepts that they have learned separately over several sections. Often instructors remark that these Integrated Reviews appear at logical breaking points in the chapter.
NEW - "Concept Checks"—Follow key in-text examples, allowing students to check their grasp of the concept being developed before moving to the next example.
NEW - Enhanced Exercise Sets, including:
- Mixed Practice section exercises that let students assimilate concepts and skills covered in separate sections, a skill often required when taking tests.
- Concept Extensions that expose students to the way math ideas build upon each other and offers additional challenge.
- Increased number of challenge exercises in each exercise set.
- More real-life data exercises: See Sections 2.2, 2.5, 4.4, 5.5, 7.7, 8.2, 9.1.
- More allied health examples and exercises. See Section 2.3, exercises 73 and 74, Section 3.2, Example 7, Section 7.4, Exercise 85.

How many adjuncts or part timers teach this course? Do they have adequate time to prepare?

NEW - Adjunct and Instructor Support, including:
- Instructor to Instructor CD Videos that provide teaching tips from Martin-Gay for adjuncts interested in a quick refresher or additional lecture ideas to help every instructor achieve success.
- New Classroom Examples in AIE that provide 2 classroom examples for each example in the text for use during lecture.
- New Suggested Homework Assignments in the Instructor's Resource Manual.
NEW - Content changes throughout, including:
- Chapter 2: Removed section on percents and problem solving. Percents are now covered in a learning objective of section 2.7 to improve the balance and progression of the problem solving sections.
- Chapter 3, Graphing: Now contains all of linear graphing, slope, equations of lines and 3.7 Introduction to Functions, consolidating material that was formerly covered in both Chapters 3 and 7 into Chapter 3.
- Chapter 8, Systems of Equations: Now Chapter 4 to give instructors the flexibility to introduce the topic based on the needs of their course.
- New Section 7.7: Direct and Inverse Variation is a new introductory section on types of direct and inverse variation containing all new applications.
- Increased coverage of factoring trinomials by grouping. See Section 6.3.
- Increased discussion about slope as a rate of change. See Section 3.4.
- Interval notation is now introduced and used in this text to help students prepare for further mathematics courses.
NEW - Increased attention given to clarifying difficult areas for students-Such as the difference between solving an equation with rational expressions and performing operations on rational expressions. See the Integrated Review in Chapter 7.

NEW! Effective January 2007 the MyMathLab course for this 4th edition of Beginning Algebra will feature Martin-Gay Video with Spanish Closed-Captioning!! MyMathLab can help your students pass this course! Use MyMathLab to assign, collect and grade homework, quizzes and/or tests. With MyMathLab - www.mymathlab.com - your students have access to unlimited practice, immediate feedback, examples, videos (this course includes Spanish Closed-Captioned Videos) and a personalized study plan, all designed to help them pass this course on the first try! View the success rates of MyMathLab at various schools in Making the Grade: A Report on the Success of MyMathLab in Higher Education Math Instruction (2005): http://www.mymathlab.com/success_report.html

Where do your students get help the night before the test?

Chapter Test Prep Video CD–Gives students step-by-step video solutions to every problem in each Chapter Test. Martin-Gay works through each chapter test problem providing valuable review to enhance mastery of key chapter content. Easy video navigation allows students to instantly access the solution to any problem.

How do you teach your students good study habits?

Study Skills Reminders–Provide a point-of-use resource throughout to reinforce the skills introduced in section 1.1, "Tips for Success in Mathematics" and create an increased focus on all-important study skill development.

"Integrated Reviews"–A unique, mid-chapter exercise set that helps students assimilate new skills and concepts that they have learned separately over several sections. Often instructors remark that these Integrated Reviews appear at logical breaking points in the chapter.

"Concept Checks"–Follow key in-text examples, allowing students to check their grasp of the concept being developed before moving to the next example.

Enhanced Exercise Sets, including:
- Mixed Practice section exercises that let students assimilate concepts and skills covered in separate sections, a skill often required when taking tests.
- Concept Extensions that expose students to the way math ideas build upon each other and offers additional challenge.
- Increased number of challenge exercises in each exercise set.
- More real-life data exercises: See Sections 2.2, 2.5, 4.4, 5.5, 7.7, 8.2, 9.1.
- More allied health examples and exercises. See Section 2.3, exercises 73 and 74, Section 3.2, Example 7, Section 7.4, Exercise 85.

How many adjuncts or part timers teach this course? Do they have adequate time to prepare?

Adjunct and Instructor Support, including:
- Instructor to Instructor CD Videos that provide teaching tips from Martin-Gay for adjuncts interested in a quick refresher or additional lecture ideas to help every instructor achieve success.
- New Classroom Examples in AIE that provide 2 classroom examples for each example in the text for use during lecture.
- New Suggested Homework Assignments in the Instructor's Resource Manual.

Content changes throughout, including:
- Chapter 2: Removed section on percents and problem solving. Percents are now covered in a learning objective of section 2.7 to improve the balance and progression of the problem solving sections.
- Chapter 3, Graphing: Now contains all of linear graphing, slope, equations of lines and 3.7 Introduction to Functions, consolidating material that was formerly covered in both Chapters 3 and 7 into Chapter 3.
- Chapter 8, Systems of Equations: Now Chapter 4 to give instructors the flexibility to introduce the topic based on the needs of their course.
- New Section 7.7: Direct and Inverse Variation is a new introductory section on types of direct and inverse variation containing all new applications.
- Increased coverage of factoring trinomials by grouping. See Section 6.3.
- Increased discussion about slope as a rate of change. See Section 3.4.
- Interval notation is now introduced and used in this text to help students prepare for further mathematics courses.

Increased attention given to clarifying difficult areas for students-Such as the difference between solving an equation with rational expressions and performing operations on rational expressions. See the Integrated Review in Chapter 7.

1. Real Numbers

1.1 Tips for Success in Mathematics

1.2 Symbols and Sets of Numbers

1.3 Introduction to Variable Expressions and Equations

1.4 Adding Real Numbers

1.5 Subtracting Real Numbers

1.6 Multiplying Real Numbers

1.7 Dividing Real Numbers

Integrated Review—Operations on Real Numbers

1.8 Properties of Real Numbers

1.9 Reading Graphs

2. Equations, Inequalities, and Problem Solving

2.1 Simplifying Expressions

2.2 The Addition Property of Equality

2.3 The Multiplication Property of Equality

2.4 Solving Linear Equations

Integrated Review—Solving Linear Equations

2.5 An Introduction to Problem Solving

2.6 Formulas and Problem Solving

2.7 Further Problem Solving

2.8 Solving Linear Inequalities

3. Graphing

3.1 The Rectangular Coordinate System

3.2 Graphing Linear Equations

3.3 Intercepts

3.4 Slope and Rate of Change

Integrated Review—Slope and Graphing Linear Equations

3.5 The Slope. Intercept Form

3.6 The Point. Slope Form

3.7 Introduction to Functions

4. Systems of Equations

4.1 Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Graphing

4.2 Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Substitution

4.3 Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Addition

Integrated Review—Solving Systems of Equations

4.4 Systems of Linear Equations and Problem Solving

4.5 Graphing Linear Inequalities in Two Variables

4.6 Systems of Linear Inequalities

5. Exponents and Polynomials

5.1 Exponents

5.2 Adding and Subtracting Polynomials

5.3 Multiplying Polynomials

5.4 Special Products

Integrated Review—Operations on Polynomials

5.6 Negative Exponents and Scientific Notation

5.7 Dividing Polynomials

6. Factoring Polynomials

6.1 The Greatest Common Factor

6.2 Factoring Trinomials of the Form x2 + bx + c

6.3 Factoring Trinomials of the Form ax2 + bx + c

6.4 Factoring Binomials

Integrated Review—Choosing a Factoring Strategy

6.5 Solving Quadratic Equations by Factoring

6.6 Quadratic Equations and Problem Solving

7. Rational Expressions

7.1 Simplifying Rational Expressions

7.2 Multiplying and Dividing Rational Expressions

7.3 Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions with Common Denominators and Least Common Denominator

7.4 Adding and Subtracting Rational Expressions with Unlike Denominators

7.5 Solving Equations Containing Rational Expressions Integrated Review—Summary on Rational Expressions

7.6 Proportions and Problem Solving with Rational Equations

7.7 Direct and Inverse Variation and Problem Solving

7.8 Simplifying Complex Fractions

8. Roots and Radicals

8.1 Introduction to Radicals

8.2 Simplifying Radicals

8.3 Adding and Subtracting Radicals

8.4 Multiplying and Dividing Radicals Integrated Review—Simplifying Radicals

8.5 Solving Equations Containing Radicals

8.6 Radical Equations and Problem Solving

8.7 Rational Exponents

9. Quadratic Equations

9.1 Solving Quadratic Equations by the Square Root Property

9.2 Solving Quadratic Equations by Completing the Square

9.3 Solving Quadratic Equations by the Quadratic Formula

Integrated Review—Summary of Methods for Solving Quadratic Equations and Problem Solving

9.4 Complex Solutions of Quadratic Equations

9.5 Graphing Quadratic Equations

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Elayn Martin-Gay's developmental math textbooks and video resources are motivated by her firm belief that every student can succeed. Martin-Gay's focus on the student shapes her clear, accessible writing, inspires her constant pedagogical innovations, and contributes to the popularity and effectiveness of her video resources. This revision of Martin-Gay's algebra series continues her focus on students and what they need to be successful. Martin-Gay also strives to provide the highest level of instructor and adjunct support.

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