Precalculus: A Right Triangle Approach (ebook) pdf

[Denny Ates]

Precalculus by Beecher can help students become aware of how their mathematics education can progress beyond the traditional pre-algebra courses taught in junior high school. The book begins with an introduction to algebra and focuses on using it to solve problems involving multiplication, addition, and subtraction. It then goes into topics like algebraic equations, functions and their properties, finding the roots of a real number using algebra, finite and infinite numbers, and finding square roots on a polynomial basis. It finishes with exercises on quadratic equations, graphical analysis, optimization, and curves.

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The first section of the text covers pre-algebra skills, introducing students to algebra and asking them to find the meaning of algebra symbols. After that, there are discussions of algebra concepts, including real numbers, variables, functions, and the denominator. The second section introduces students to algebraic equations and describes them in terms that are easy for students to understand. In the middle, students learn more about using algebra to solve problems using Cartesian and integral functions.

While some of the content is covered in more depth in other similar texts, like The College Algebra Guidebook by John Thomas and Peter Reinhart, many concepts in Precalculus by Beecher are covered almost identically in most other texts as well. The main difference is that Beecher includes tables of contents so that students have a guide to the entire book. This makes the book much easier to read and study compared to other texts. Other similar and popular pre calculus books include texts by Dedekind, Ferrers and Turoff, and Sands and Spencer.