Calculus: An Integrated Approach to Functions and Their Rates of Change, Preliminary Edition

A major complaint of professors teaching calculus is that students don't have the appropriate background to work through the calculus course successfully. This text is targeted directly at this underprepared audience. This is a single-variable (2-semester) calculus text that incorporates a conceptual re-introduction to key precalculus ideas throughout the exposition as appropriate. This is the ideal resource for those schools dealing with poorly prepared students or for schools introducing a slower paced, integrated precalculus/calculus course.

Robin Gottlieb has been teaching in the mathematics department at Harvard since the early 1980's. She is a Professor of the Practice in the Teaching of Mathematics. She wrote this text to accompany an integrated precalculus-calculus course that was developed to serve the needs of students.