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Title: Trigonometry
ISBN: 0495108359
Author:
Charles P. McKeague
Mark D. Turner
Publicate Date: 2007-09-26
Publish: 2007-09-26
List Price: $166.95
Average Customer Rating: 3.5
Format: Hardcover
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Amazon Lowest New Price: $120.00
Amazon Lowest Used Price: $99.99
Amazon Merchant Price: $125.05
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1: Spend your money elsewhere
I am currently teaching my trig. class out of this book. It has been an extremely frustrating experience.
Many of the introductory sections serve as a complete waste of time- with many topics introduced in very non-intuitive ways. Case in point: Section 3.3 (p 131) introduces "definition III" for trigonometric functions using the arc length of the unit circle. WHO DOES THAT? Even if the students understand what the book is trying to get at, the text fails miserably in justify why we even care to do that.
My second gripe about this book is pointed to the section I am currently covering, Chapter 4, which introduces graphs, amplitude, period, etc. It is SOOOOO BORING!!! This is coming from the teacher, not the student! I'm not a textbook writer, but come on! There's got to be better ways of introducing this section!
Lastly (for now), why in the world would you publish a trigonometry textbook and charge more than $150? It's not as if the author is introducing cutting-edge theories that are introduced in the form of published works for the very first time. Is this really fair market value? Even with the discounted price that Amazon charges (about $128) this book is a complete rip-off. It makes me wonder how much of this money is going to the authors and how much of it is going to Cengage. I hope in the following semesters I will be teaching out of a textbook that doesn't charge my students an arm and a leg for a 15 week course.
Okay- I'm done complaining about this book for now. I'm sure I'll think of many other things later.
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2: Simple Book
This Book was too simple. Nothing in this book is rationalized. The notation is designed for people who have trouble with algebra2. I consider this book too simple. I gave it 4 stars because trig should not be taught in this notation.
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3: most understandable mathbook I ever used
It explains things well enough that I had a basic understanding of the material before going to my professor's lectures. It made it really easy to find the topics in the book to help me solve problems too.
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4: learn trig without a teacher
This book is great. It is well organized, but best of all, it comes with a CD-Rom that ROCKS!! The actual author, Chuck McKeague, teaches each concept on a markerboard, then you can practice as much as you want with different problems every time. Plus, if you just can't get it, the CD will guide you step-by-step through every problem if you want. If your teacher requires another book for Trig. you can still benefit from this one's excellent CD-Rom.
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5: A step at a time
Well laid out book, taking you a step at a time through trigonometry. Frequent reviews of material from previous chapters enables you to stay in touch with the full subject so you can be ready for the cumulative final. Author does a good job of trying to find real world examples, which is not easy. (Hardcover edition)
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