Katherine Yoshiwara

• Emphasizes graphing and modeling with many examples of real-life applications
• Includes embedded WeBWorK problems for students to test their understanding and receive immediate feedback
• An Activities Workbook contains guided classroom activities for each section of the text
• An Algebra Toolkit can help the students refresh the prerequisite skills needed for the corresponding section in the text
• A print version of the text ($58) and a computer homework system are available from XYZ Textbooks
• For more information and to download the PDF and to access the online version

From the preface:

Intermediate Algebra is a textbook for students who have some acquaintance with the basic notions of variables and equations, negative numbers, and graphs, although we provide a “Toolkit” to help the reader refresh any skills that may have gotten a little rusty. In this book we journey farther into the subject, to explore a greater variety of topics including graphs and modeling, curve-fitting, variation, exponentials and logarithms, and the conic sections. We use technology to handle data and give some instructions for using a graphing calculator, but these can easily be adapted to any other graphing utility.

We discuss functions and their applications, but not in the detail expected of a precalculus course; our intended audience includes students preparing for the many fields that may not use calculus but nonetheless require facility with quantitative reasoning. We aim to develop that facility in the context of modeling and problem solving.

Table of contents:

1. Linear Models
2. Applications of Linear Models
3. Quadratic Models
4. Applications of Quadratic Models
5. Functions and Their Graphs
6. Powers and Roots
7. Exponential Functions
8. Polynomial and Rational Functions
9. Equations and Graphs
10. Logarithmic Functions