Business Math - Softcover

Cheryl Cleaves

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131142836 ISBN 13: 9780131142831

Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div, 2004

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This top seller continues to offer a comprehensive and effective demonstration of mathematical basic concepts through extensive use of business examples taken from real-world applications in such areas as banking, the hotel/motel industry, retail, and real estate. Direct, friendly, and visually appealing, it offers an adaptable self-instructional or teacher-directed format, and myriad motivational tools to stimulate interest and deepen understanding. The volume encompasses all areas of business mathematics—beginning with skill-building sections on whole numbers and decimals; guiding readers through fractions, percents, statistics, and equations; then easing them into the specifics of business-related mathematics applications with discussions on payroll, discounts, markup/markdown, interest, credit and more. For individuals in business, banking, hotel/motel industries, retail and real estate needing an introduction or review of business math skills.

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From the Publisher:

The new edition of this best-selling text continues a tradition of demonstrating fundamental mathematical concepts through extensive use of examples taken from real-world applications in such areas as banking, the hotel/motel industry, retail, and real estate. Coverage encompasses all areas of business mathematics, beginning with whole number and decimals, and bringing students along, step-by-step, through fractions, percents, statistics, and equations, to specifics of business-related mathematics applications such as payroll, discounts, markup/markdown, interest, credit, depreciation, inventory, insurance, taxes, and more. Procedures, rules and formulas are broken down into understandable components. A straightforward writing style and numerous motivational special features encourage student involvement with the text, and help make even complex concepts interesting and accessible. This is a major revision.

From the Back Cover:

With a strong commitment to educational innovation, Cleaves & Hobbs' BUSINESS MATH, Sixth Edition, brings a whole new look to this nationally prominent text. The pedagogy and design of the text exist for one reason: helping today's business math student comfortably work with mathematics and confidently tackle the challenges presented in the business world.

The lineup includes:

Decision Key approach to problem solving
Learning Strategies to facilitate the learning process
Spreadsheet Exercises
Study Wizard for interactive practice, self tests and searchable glossary
Good Decisions Through Teamwork
Learning Outcomes
How-To Boxes
Self-Checks with complete solutions
Tip Boxes
Around the Business World applications
Assignment Exercises with answers to odd-numbered questions
Concepts Analysis exercises
Chapter Overview
Words to Know list with page number references
Chapter Practice Tests with answers to odd-numbered questions
Glossary/Index

Authors Cheryl Cleaves and Margie Hobbs, leaders in their field, focused their efforts in this new edition on developing the student's critical thinking skills and collaborative learning processes—through the "Decision Key" and teamwork problems, the concepts analysis exercises, and the extensive list of student projects—conforming to the directives outlined in the AMATYC standards, NCTM and NBEA standards, and the SCANS guidelines.

You will excel using BUSINESS MATH, Sixth Edition. Cleaves and Hobbs have done and will continue to do whatever it takes to make this book the best one for students and instructors in your business math course.

Cheryl and Margie welcome your e-mail questions and comments:
cleaves@bellsouth.net or mjhobbs@watervalley.net

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