Calculus 2012 Student Edition (by Finney/Demana/Waits/Kennedy)

by Ross L. Finney, Bert K. Waits, Daniel Kennedy

Book Overview

The esteemed author team is back with a fourth edition of Calculus: Graphing, Numerical, Algebraic written specifically for high school students and aligned to the guidelines of the AP(R) Calculus exam. The new edition focuses on providing enhanced student and teacher support; for students, the authors added guidance on the appropriate use of graphing calculators and updated exercises to reflect current data. For teachers, the authors provide lesson...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0133178579
• ISBN13: 9780133178579
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 717 Pages
• Weight: 3.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.7" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 16 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 11 to 12

Customer Reviews

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I received the book in very good condition , extremely fast shipped and at a great price.

A Great Book For Its Purpose

I am currently a senior in High School, and I am in Advanced Placement Calculus. The textbook we use is the next edition of this text, but the textbooks are pratically identical, so i decided to comment here. This text is designed to be an introductary text. Introductary texts teach you concepts that you should be able to understand how to use. A lot of these concepts are too advanced to be explained in an introductary course, so they are omitted from the text. Learning math is just like learning anything else. You must first learn how to do it, and then you must learn why you do it. This text tells you what to do with minimal explations because long explainations make readers lose attention and the why would be gone anyway. One other thing that this book does is it gives previews into the next section. Obviously, concepts build upon one another, so some of the problems in the exercises are designed to try and make you think outside the box and get a glimpse into the next section.

Solid book, but lack of explanations

a very nice book if you are using it in a course, but not a good choice for self learning. The contents are solid but lack of explanations.

Solid text for high school and introductory college calculus

This book is extremely clear and concise in explaining the basic level calculus. The addded instruction on how to use calculus on a calculator is a nice touch and ensures that the book is up to date. the organization of the material is logical and the difficulty level is perfect for a teacher to teach. It is a good text.

Professional Review

This calculus book is an excellent choice for college bound mathematics students in high schools. It covers every topics needed to succeed in later math courses and future; it has ample real-life problem situations that not only hone mathematics skills of the students, it also helps them to understand most of the abstract concepts of calculus. This book is suitable for use in any AP Calc courses (AB or BC). Despite many special features in this overall superior book, I do not strongly recommand this book. The reason is that this book uses very minimum colors and graphics that can help high school students to be interested in the materials in calculus; besides, graphics with colors CERTAINLY helps everyone to grasp the abstract "stuff". If you are a high school chairperson, and you are considering to purchase this book for your school to use as an AP Calc text book, I recommand you to look for a newer book.