Supplement: Prealgebra - Prealgebra 3/E - Hardcover

Margaret L. Lial; Diana L. Hestwood

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0321292758 ISBN 13: 9780321292759

Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc., 2005

Synopsis

This prealgebra text helps prepare students for higher-level math courses by integrating basic algebraic concepts early and continuing to revisit those concepts throughout the text. Student comprehension is aided by the friendly composition and current, relevant applications. Student motivation is increased by immersion in genuine and realistic mathematical situations.This prealgebra text, as a part of the Lial/Hornsby/Miller developmental worktext series, focuses on students by helping them reduce their confusion of symbols for subtraction with negative numbers. The text also clearly demonstrates why the product of two negative numbers is a positive number and explains why letters instead of numbers are used in algebra. This text helps students solve applied problems and increases their proficiency in solving fraction and percent problems.

About this title

About the Author:

Hestwood is affiliated with the Minneapolis Community and Technical College.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Education, Inc.
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0321292758
• ISBN 13: 9780321292759
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 794