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Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Multivariable
Second Edition| ©2019 Michael Sullivan; Kathleen Miranda
As educators we understand the challenges you face in this course, and as authors we have crafted a text that gives you the tools to meet them. This book has examples with clear explanations to help you learn how to logically solve mathematics problems. Read and work the examples and do the sugge...
As educators we understand the challenges you face in this course, and as authors we have crafted a text that gives you the tools to meet them. This book has examples with clear explanations to help you learn how to logically solve mathematics problems. Read and work the examples and do the suggested NOW WORK Problems listed after them. Take advantage of the book’s many features to help you to master calculus. Whether you are majoring in life sciences, business or economics, engineering or mathematics, this book has many applied exercises—some written by students like you—related to courses in a wide variety of majors. And a robust online support system includes a suite of easy-to-use and powerfully built learning tools, which include stepped-out examples, video tutorials, interactive figures, assessment quizzes, and hundreds of practice exercises with feedback and solutions.
Achieve for Calculus redefines homework by offering guidance for every student and support for every instructor. Homework is designed to teach by correcting students misconceptions through targeted feedback, meaningful hints, and full solutions, helping teach students conceptual understanding and critical thinking in real-world contexts.
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As educators we understand the challenges you face in this course, and as authors we have crafted a text that gives you the tools to meet them. This book has examples with clear explanations to help you learn how to logically solve mathematics problems. Read and work the examples and do the suggested NOW WORK Problems listed after them. Take advantage of the book’s many features to help you to master calculus. Whether you are majoring in life sciences, business or economics, engineering or mathematics, this book has many applied exercises—some written by students like you—related to courses in a wide variety of majors. And a robust online support system includes a suite of easy-to-use and powerfully built learning tools, which include stepped-out examples, video tutorials, interactive figures, assessment quizzes, and hundreds of practice exercises with feedback and solutions.
Achieve for Calculus redefines homework by offering guidance for every student and support for every instructor. Homework is designed to teach by correcting students misconceptions through targeted feedback, meaningful hints, and full solutions, helping teach students conceptual understanding and critical thinking in real-world contexts.
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Achieve is the culmination of years of development work put toward creating the most powerful online learning tool for calculusstudents. It houses all of our renowned assessments, multimedia assets, e-books, and instructor resources in a powerful new platform.
Achieve supports educators and students throughout the full range of instruction, including assets suitable for pre-class preparation, in-class active learning, and post-class study and assessment. The pairing of a powerful new platform with outstanding calculus content provides an unrivalled learning experience.
Highlights include:
- A design guided by learning science research. Co-designed through extensive collaboration and testing by both students and faculty including two levels of Institutional Review Board approval for every study of Achieve
- A learning path of powerful content including pre-class, in-class, and post-class activities and assessments.
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- Simple integration with your campus LMS and availability through Inclusive Access programs.
THE SECOND EDITION INCLUDES:
- Section exercise sets that are divided into four clear categories:
- Check Your Understanding
- Skill Building
- Applications and Extensions
- Challenge Problems.
- Exercises are paired (even and odd) and generally displayed from easier to more difficult.
- Section-level Learning Objectives, which are also summarized in an end-of-chapter chart and tagged to specific review problems
- End of Chapter Summary, Objectives Table, and Exercises
- Detailed and Annotated Examples
- Now Work feature, which relates examples to specific section exercises
- Recall, Need to Review?, In Words, Caution, and Notes margin features which clarify concepts and refer students back to earlier material
- Dynamic Figures, which are interactive online versions of key chapter figures
- Chapter Projects, which are long-form application projects
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ACHIEVE FOR CALCULUS
Achieve focuses on engaging students through pre-class and post-class assessment, interactive activities, and a full e-book. Achieve is a complete learning environment with easy course setup, gradebook and LMS integration.
- The easy-to-use Homework Math Palette adapts its front page to the content of the problem, bringing forward the most appropriate buttons. This helps students focus on the math rather than the format.
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- Guided Learn and Practice assignments include interactive content, videos, and instructional feedback to prepare students before they come to class.
- Guided Learn and Practice Assignments contain CalcClips tutorial videos are integrated throughout the e-book.
- Dynamic Figures powered by Desmos, take students experience further with conceptual and computational questions about the interactive Dynamic Figures. These book-specific figures are embedded directly in the e-book and additional assessment for the figures are found in the Guided Learn and Practice question banks.
- LearningCurve adaptive quizzing offers individualized question sets and feedback for each student based on his or her correct and incorrect responses.
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Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Multivariable
Second Edition| ©2019
Michael Sullivan; Kathleen Miranda
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Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Multivariable
Second Edition| 2019
Michael Sullivan; Kathleen Miranda
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Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Multivariable
Second Edition| 2019
Michael Sullivan; Kathleen Miranda
Authors
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Michael Sullivan
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Kathleen Miranda
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Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Multivariable
Second Edition| 2019
Michael Sullivan; Kathleen Miranda
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