Student DVD – the first in college textbooks this tool includes a wealth of resources for study including, video tutorials that solve each practice quiz, six video cases that apply business math concepts to real companies, the Business Math Software, Excel Templates, Self Grading Quizzes for each chapter, PowerPoint, Lecture Slides, The Internet Resource Guide and web links for doing business math on the Internet. The DVD format allows students to have easier access to all these exciting tools.
Updated Content – in Business Math up-to-date and current content is crucial, every chapter includes new “real world” news clips or articles to peak student interest and enhance learning, bridging the real-world and business math study together for students.
Thorough content updates – As business and business processes change daily it is important that students are exposed to the most current trends and processes. PBMP has been thoroughly updated throughout every chapter.
Content Improvement – Slater: Practical Business Math Procedures continues to be the market leader because the author is very careful to include market feedback throughout the development process. The 8e includes expanded coverage of online banking, applications of technology such as Quicken and Excel, and many others.
Toll-Free 24-Hour Hotline for students. Students receive helpful expert hints from the author for every problem on the Summary Practice Tests.
The Wall Street Journal Guide, included free to students shows how business math is used in trading stocks and bonds through specially designed projects.
The Business Math Handbook & Study Guide, free to students, contains all tables found in the text and a built-in brief study guide.
Student-oriented teaching tools such as the Blueprint Aid for Solving Word Problems, color coding, Chapter Organizers, Scrapbook, etc.
Excel spreadsheet problems identified in the text allow students to run data using this popular business tool.
The Business Math Scrapbook at the end of each chapter pulls the chapter material together and allows the student to apply the chapter theory to real-life business situations with a project using a Wall Street Journal clipping or Internet resource.
An article from Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine along with assignment questions is included with every chapter. This feature provides an opportunity for group study and is an excellent tool to develop critical thinking and writing skills.
Internet activities and text web site, affords students the opportunity to explore the world wide web and exploit the tremendous power of the web.
The Statistics chapter provides more coverage of statistics and graphics as used in business.
Clear, colorful explanations supported by detailed step-by-step examples based on the author's 25 years of teaching business math as well as feedback and input from business math instructors.
Flexible format providing “Practice Quizzes” for immediate student feedback, a large end-of-chapter problem section including Challenge Problems, and Homework Assignments by Learning Unit at the end of the book for instructors wishing to have students do and turn in assignments based on each learning unit. A new handy reference for instructors has been added to the 8e Teachers edition to facilitate use of the end of text assignement by learning unit.
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