5 stars (Good book. Especially With Solution Manual.) - Bought the teachers edition and 2 solution manual books (1500+pages each) all for 63 bucks. BRAND NEW! Anyways, this book I find to be a lot better than many many of the other math text books out there. What is nice about this book is the simple fact that it doesn't try as hard to fool you as the others. Other text books seem to be written by people that are really advanced and think, in a way, that we are as well. They sometimes don't realize that the stuff they put down into text books might be a lot harder to someone that doesn't have a firm gasp and understanding as they have. I mean...don't you hate text books that give you examples and solutions, but all of the examples are of easy problems and the ones that you do want to know are not shown? In highschool, I didn't know weither to use my math text books to learn or use it as heating fuel for the winter nights. Listening to the teacher wasn't very helpful because he followed the pace of his more advance nerdy students and using the book to catch up helped as much as little if nothing. This book, however, can actually teach you pretty much everything step by step, especially if you use it with the solutions manual which shows you step by step how the answers are achieved. For once, I'm learning more from the book than from the teacher. They should hire the book, it would be cheaper. I'm sure the book will grade us by a curve as well and be nicer to us. This whole summer semester I've been learning almost everything from the book, the teacher is just extra. The way the book is made, its an accumalative (spelled wrongly I bet) kind of thing. You can learn it all if you go through it from a to z, beginnig to end. Of course you'll still need guidance here and there, but it is made so clearly that it gives you a peace of mind. Suddenly, the secret codes are being decoded. A pretty looking book that'll probably cost you a bundle (USED in textbook store fo... Prentice Hall :: Mathematics & Statistics :: Trigonometry :: Science&Mathematics :: Pre-Calculus :: Mathematics :: Algebra - General :: Algebra :: Michael Sullivan :: :: Precalculus (7th Edition)
1 stars (Wrong edition) - I ordered the 7th edition of College Algebra, Mark Sullivan and was sent the 6yh edition. Because these are totally different books and my class requires the 7th edtition I must return the book. Please let me know how to proceed with this so that I receive a credit on my account. 1 stars (Bad Placement) - He registered the book under the wrong edition so i lost 40 dollars!!! bad seller!! 4 stars (prolific problem sets) - In his latest update of this text, Sullivan takes the reader through a high school or undergraduate level course in algebra. Though the title says "College", all of this material is also eminently do-able at the high school level, for advanced students, aspiring to major in maths or science. While at the university level, it appears to be targeting those students not majoring in maths, physical science or engineering. Why? Because the dividing line is calculus. The book gives a good treatment of what you should know in maths, up to, but not including, calculus. It also has a chapter on probability. Which I don't think is usually considered part of algebra. But, pragmatically and correctly, Sullivan chose to include it. The text has numerous examples, with only a little emphasis on a strict derivation of theorems. Another indication that it does not target a maths major. Sullivan gives informal explanations that should suffice to satisfy most readers. Each chapter also has a prolific number of problems; around one hundred. Very suitable and convenient for a lecturer [you?] to assign as homework, since the book only supplies answers to half of these. Enough to keep your students happily [?] busy. ... Prentice Hall :: Mathematics & Algebra & General :: Science&Mathematics :: Mathematics :: Algebra - General :: Algebra - Elementary :: Algebra :: Michael Sullivan :: :: College Algebra (7th Edition)
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