Basic College Mathematics with P.O.W.E.R. Learning

Sherri Messersmith’s successful hardcover franchise is expanded with the new softcover P.O.W.E.R. series. The conversational writing style, practical applications, innovative student resources and student friendly walk through of examples that users of the hard cover books noted and appreciated are also found in the pages of the P.O.W.E.R. series. The P.O.W.E.R. Framework What makes P.O.W.E.R. a unique tool for the classroom? A major challenge in developmental courses is that students at this level struggle with basic study skills and habits. Maybe this is one of their first college courses or perhaps they are adults returning to school after a long absence. Either way, many of the individuals taking this course don’t know how to be good students. Instructors often don’t have the time, the resources or the expertise to teach success skills AND the math concepts. The new team of Messersmith, Perez and Feldman offer a scientifically based approach to meet this challenge. The P.O.W.E.R. Learning Framework was developed by successful author, psychologist, student success instructor and researcher, Bob Feldman. It is a method of accomplishing any task using five simple and consistent steps. Prepare. Organize. Work. Evaluate. Rethink. This framework is integrated at every level of the text to help students successfully learn math concepts while at the same time developing habits that will serve them well throughout their college careers and in their daily lives. The Math Mastering Concepts--With the textbook and Connect Math hosted by ALEKS, students can practice and master their understanding of algebraic concepts.Messersmith is rigorous enough to prepare students for the next level yet easy to read and understand. The exposition is written as if a professor is teaching in a lecture to be more accessible to students. The language is mathematically sound yet easy enough for students to understand.

Table of Contents:
Basic College Mathematics with P.O.W.E.R. Learning, First EditionChapter 1: Addition and Subtraction with Whole NumbersStudy Strategies: The P.O.W.E.R. FrameworkSection 1.1: Whole Numbers and Place ValueSection 1.2Introduction to AdditionSection 1.3Adding Whole NumbersSection 1.4Introduction to SubtractionSection 1.5Subtracting Whole NumbersPutting It All TogetherSection 1.6Rounding and EstimationSection 1.7Reading Pictographs, Bar Graphs, and Line GraphsemPOWERme: Who’s inChapter SummaryChapter 1 ReviewChapter 1 TestChapter 2: Multiplication and Division with Whole NumbersStudy Strategies: Strategies for Reading Math (and Other) TextbooksSection 2.1Introduction to MultiplicationSection 2.2Finding the Product with Whole NumbersSection 2.3Introduction to DivisionSection 2.4Divisibility Rules and Short DivisionSection 2.5Long DivisionPutting It All TogetherSection 2.6Exponents, Roots, and Order of OperationsSection 2.7 Solving Applied ProblemsemPOWERme: Discover Your Reading Attention SpanChapter SummaryChapter 2 ReviewChapter 2 TestCumulative Review for Chapters 12Chapter 3: Multiplying, Dividing, and Simplifying FractionsStudy Strategies: Time ManagementSection 3.1Introduction to FractionsSection 3.2Mixed NumbersSection 3.3FactorsSection 3.4Writing Fractions in Lowest TermsSection 3.5Multiplying FractionsSection 3.6Applications of MultiplicationSection 3.7Dividing FractionsPutting It All TogetherSection 3.8Multiplying and Dividing Mixed NumbersemPOWERme: Find Your Procrastination QuotientChapter SummaryChapter 3 ReviewChapter 3 TestCumulative Review for Chapters 13Chapter 4: Adding and Subtracting FractionsStudy Strategies: Taking Notes in ClassSection 4.1Adding and Subtracting Like FractionsSection 4.2Least Common MultiplesSection 4.3Finding the Least Common DenominatorSection 4.4Adding and Subtracting Unlike FractionsSection 4.5Adding and Subtracting Mixed NumbersPutting It All Together Section 4.6Order Relations and Order of OperationsemPOWERme: Active ListeningChapter SummaryChapter 4 ReviewChapter 4 TestCumulative Review for Chapters 1 – 4Chapter 5: DecimalsStudy Strategies: Taking Math TestsSection 5.1Reading and Writing DecimalsSection 5.2Rounding DecimalsSection 5.3Adding and Subtracting DecimalsSection 5.4Multiplying DecimalsSection 5.5Dividing Decimals and Order of OperationsPutting It All TogetherSection 5.6Writing Fractions as DecimalsSection 5.7Mean, Median, and ModeemPOWERme: Is Anxiety the Hardest Problem on the Test? Chapter SummaryChapter 5 ReviewChapter 5 TestCumulative Review for Chapters 15Chapter 6: Ratios, Rates, and ProportionsStudy Strategies: Doing Math HomeworkSection 6.1RatiosSection 6.2RatesSection 6.3ProportionsSection 6.4Solve ProportionsSection 6.5Solve Applied Problems Involving Proportions emPOWERme: The Right Approach to HomeworkChapter SummaryChapter 6 ReviewChapter 6 TestCumulative Review for Chapters 16Chapter 7: Measurement and ConversionStudy Strategies: The Writing ProcessSection 7.1Using U.S. Customary MeasurementsSection 7.2The Metric System: Length Section 7.3The Metric System: Capacity and Weight (Mass) Section 7.4Solve Applied Problems Involving Metric UnitsSection 7.5Metric – U.S. Customary Conversions and TemperatureemPOWERme: Becoming a Math Teacher to Reinforce Your Own UnderstandingChapter SummaryChapter 7 ReviewChapter 7 TestCumulative Review for Chapters 17Chapter 8: PercentsStudy Strategies: Public SpeakingSection 8.1Introduction to PercentSection 8.2Percents and FractionsSection 8.3Compute Basic Percents MentallySection 8.4Use an Equation to Solve Percent ProblemsSection 8.5Solve Applications Involving PercentsPutting It All TogetherSection 8.6More Applications with PercentsSection 8.7Simple InterestSection 8.8Compound InterestemPOWERme: What’s Your Level of Self-Consciousness? Chapter SummaryChapter 8 ReviewChapter 8 TestCumulative Review for Chapters 18

About the Author :
Sherri Messersmith has been teaching at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, since 1994. She has over 25 years of experience teaching many different courses from developmental mathematics through calculus. She earned a bachelor of science degree in the teaching of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and went on to teach at the high level for two years. Sherri returned to UIUC and earned a master of science in applied mathematics and stayed on at the university to teach and coordinate large sections of undergraduate math courses. Sherri has authored several textbook, and she has also appeared in videos accompanying several McGraw-Hill texts. Sherri lives outside of Chicago with her husband, Phil, and their daughters, Alex and Cailen. In her precious free time, she likes to read, play the guitar, and travel -- the manuscripts for this and her previous books have accompanied her from Spain to Greece and many points in between. Bob Feldman still remembers those moments of being overwhelmed when he started college at Wesleyan University. “I wondered whether I was up to the challenges that faced me,” he recalls, “and—although I never would have admitted it at the time—I really had no idea what it took to be successful at college.” That experience, along with his encounters with many students during his own teaching career, led to a life-long interest in helping students navigate the critical transition that they face at the start of their own college careers. Professor Feldman, who went on to receive a doctorate in psychology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is now Deputy Chancellor and Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is founding director of POWER Up for Student Success, the first-year experience course for incoming students. Professor Feldman’s proudest professional accomplishment is winning the College Outstanding Teaching Award at UMass. He also has been named a Hewlett Teaching Fellow and was Senior Online Instruction Fellow. He has taught courses at Mount Holyoke College, Wesleyan University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. Professor Feldman is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a winner of a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer award and has written over 200 scientific articles, book chapters, and books. His books, some of which have been translated into Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Japanese, and Chinese, include Improving the First Year of College: Research and Practice; Understanding Psychology, 12/e; and Development Across the Life Span, 7/e. His research interests encompass the study of honesty and truthfulness in everyday life, development of nonverbal behavior in children, and the social psychology of education. His research has been supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Disabilities and Rehabilitation Research. With the last of his three children completing college, Professor Feldman occupies his spare time with pretty decent cooking and earnest, but admittedly unpolished, piano playing. He also loves to travel. He lives with his wife, who is an educational psychologist, in a home overlooking the Holyoke mountain range in western Massachusetts.