Elementary Algebra Katherine Yoshiwara by Katherine Yoshiwara instant download after payment.

  Throughout the book, we use applications to motivate algebraic skills. We
present ideas using verbal, numerical, and graphical tools. We use graphs
extensively to illustrate algebraic techniques and to help students visualize relationships between variables. In the Homework Problems we break up skills
practice into smaller sets of exercises and combine them with conceptual questions, graphing, and applications of various types.
We have included a number of features to encourage student participation.

 • The reading is broken into small segments by using boxes around Examples, definitions, and rules, and flags including Caution, Look Closer,
and Look Ahead.

 • We want students to learn how to read a math book, so we have included
Reading Questions that mirror the content of the lesson. For example, the
first Reading Question is ”A numerical quantity that changes over time or
in different situations is called a .” Ideally, students would answer these
questions before class, perhaps through an on-line homework system.

 • Each section ends with a Skills Warm-Up (with answers) for students
to complete on their own. The Skills Warm-Up problems review an
arithmetic or algebraic technique needed for the Lesson that follows. 

• Because choosing appropriate scales for the axes is a time-consuming
task for beginning students, the text includes labeled grids for most of
the graphing exercises. Ready-made grids allow students to consider
a wider range of examples (with ”harder” numbers) and to focus on the
properties of the graphs, such as intercepts and slope, and on interpreting
the information given by the graph. If students are using technology to
create graphs, the grids can help them choose an appropriate window