PreCalculus transformed
Subtitle: extending transformations to explore precalculus
By: Chris Harrow and Nurfatimah Merchant
Contributors: Merchant, Nurfatimah
Publisher: Andover, MA
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Venture Publishing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781886018143
Subjects: Westminster authors; Faculty; Mathematics; Study and teaching; Functions
Description: Chris Harrow joined the Westminster faculty in 1990, and Nurfatimah Merchant joined the Westminster faculty in 2004.

This text highlights the under-explored role of transformations in visualizing, interpreting, and understanding pre-calculus concepts. It develops function composition as a broader description of transformations far beyond constant translations and dilations. Using transformations, students learn to discover underlying patterns and to bring out connections between otherwise seemingly unrelated ideas. Through it all, this text provides an interconnected and dynamic pre-calculus experience, with a wide range of problems from basic practice to those requiring creativity, insight and meaningful connection. -- Cover.