Are your students truly mastering the language of Calculus? Do they learn the “pieces” but struggle to visualize the complete picture? John Wiley & Sons, Inc. is pleased to announce the publication of a new textbook that will change the way your students learn Calculus. Through lively explanations of central ideas reinforced by real-world examples and applications, Lutzer/Goodwill’s
Calculus teaches your students to think mathematically. The text reinforces the material with ample exercise sets, ranging from pure skill to more conceptual questions. By blending traditional and conceptual methods,
Calculus empowers students to synthesize the parts into a whole and fosters an intuitive sense for applying the concepts to their future careers.
Lutzer/Goodwill’s Calculus is available with WileyPLUS, an online teaching and learning environment initially developed for calculus and differential equations courses. WileyPLUS integrates the complete digital textbook with powerful student and instructor resources as well as online auto-graded homework.
Students and math professors looking for a calculus resource that sparks curiosity and engages them will appreciate this new book. Through demonstration and exercises, it shows them how to read equations. It uses a blend of traditional and reform emphases to develop intuition. Narrative and exercises present calculus as a single, unified subject. Color is used to help them identify and interpret the parts of a mathematical model. In addition, formal proofs are preceded with informal discussions that focus on the ideas about to be presented. Then the proofs are discussed in a way that helps scientists and engineers interpret the details of the argument.