Typical Math Textbook
12/12/2007
I feel sorry for the non-math inclined person who has to take an online Calculus course using this textbook. Math teachers rarely teach math the way the math textbook they use explains the topic. Typically a math teacher shows you how to solve problems then (sometimes) shows you why things work that way. This book, like typical math texts, gives a short written introduction to each topic then dives right into full-blown examples with the whys and hows all jumbled together. As a math person, this is workable for me as I can pull it all apart and reprocess it back together and I appreciate the in-depth analysis, but a non-math major could get lost very quickly.