Practical Business Math Procedures with Handbook, Student DVD, and WSJ insert
11th Edition
Published on 16. February 2013
Book
978-1-259-09535-1 (ISBN)
Description
The Eleventh Edition of Practical Business Math Procedures provides innovative learning tools and real-world examples that will support, engage, and motivate business math students in the classroom. The goal of the 11th edition is to personalize the learning experience for all business math students to promote engagement, achievement, and lifelong learning. The text motivates with the integration of interesting real world examples and photos from the Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger's, and many other business journals. Jeffrey Slater's Practice Business Math Procedures is the most popular and widely used book for this course and it is carefully written and developed to support students with little math experience by providing summary practice tests, numerous exercises, supporting tutorial videos on DVD, and much more.Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, and how they need it, so that your class time is more engaging and effective.
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Persons
Jeff Slater has been teaching 30 years at North Shore Community College. He has acted as a consultant for the office of personnel management in Boston and New York. Jeff tours the country giving speeches on student retention at colleges as well as national conventions.
Sharon has been teaching Business Math at Pikes Peak Community College for almost 20 years. Technological enhancements providing students with around-the-clock learning tools through the use of Smartbook and Connect have become important parts of both her face-to-face and online courses. Making content easy to understand and applicable to students' lives continues to be Sharon's focus.
Sharon has been teaching Business Math at Pikes Peak Community College for almost 20 years. Technological enhancements providing students with around-the-clock learning tools through the use of Smartbook and Connect have become important parts of both her face-to-face and online courses. Making content easy to understand and applicable to students' lives continues to be Sharon's focus.
Content
Chapter 1: Whole Number: How to Dissect and Solve Word ProblemsChapter 2: FractionsChapter 3: DecimalsChapter 4: BankingChapter 5: Solving for the Unknown: A How to Approach to Solving EquationsChapter 6: Percents and Their ApplicationsChapter 7: Discounts: Trade and CashChapter 8: Markups and Markdowns: Perishables and Breakeven AnalysisChapter 9: PayrollChapter 10: Simple InterestChapter 11: Promissory Notes, Simple Discount Notes and the Discount ProcessChapter 12: Compound Interest and Present ValueChapter 13: Annuities and Sinking FundsChapter 14: Installment BuyingChapter 15: The Cost of Home OwnershipChapter 16: How to Read, Analyze, and Interpret Financial ReportsChapter 17: AppreciationChapter 18: Inventory and OverheadChapter 19: Sales Excise and Property TaxesChapter 20: Life, Fire and Auto InsuranceChapter 21: Stocks, Bonds and Mutual FundsChapter 22: Business StatisticsAppendix A: Additional Homework by Learning UnitAppendix B: Worked Out Solutions to Extra Practice QuizzesAppendix C: Check FiguresAppendix D: Metric SystemGlossary/Index