Stepped Explorations throughout the text provide guided investigations of key concepts and help students build problem-solving skills. A grapher is required. Appropriate Courses For Calculus courses using a grapher. Offers a balanced approach presenting functions graphically, numerically, and analytically so students can understand the connections among these representations. Students then learn how to analyze and model data, represent data graphically, interpret from graphs and and fit curves.
Explorations actively involve students in understanding key calculus concepts and solving problems.
Stepped Explorations guide students to develop a mathematical model, solve the model, support or confirm the solution and interpret the solution. Exercise sets include more than 3,800 exercises including more than 560 Quick Review Exercises which can be used to introduce lessons, support examples and review skills. The book assumes familiarity with graphing technology. Students learn that technology can be used to support, not to prove, results, and that algebraic or analytic techniques are needed to prove results. Prerequisites for Calculus.