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WebAssign Instant Access for Smith's Nature of Mathematics, Multi-Term, 13th Edition

Karl Smith

  • Copyright 2017
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WebAssign Instant Access for Smith's Nature of Mathematics, Multi-Term 13th Edition by Karl Smith
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Overview

WebAssign for Nature of Mathematics is a flexible and fully customizable online instructional solution that puts powerful tools in the hands of instructors, enabling you to deploy assignments, instantly assess individual student and class performance and help your students master the course concepts. Enrich the teaching and learning experience with the superior content within the powerful digital platform of WebAssign. Tailor your course with a wide range of assignment settings, the ability to add your own questions and content, analytics at the individual and course level and student/teacher communication tools.

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Karl Smith

Karl Smith is professor emeritus at Santa Rosa Junior College in Santa Rosa, California. He has written more than 36 mathematics textbooks. He firmly believes that students can learn mathematics if it is presented to them through the use of concrete examples designed to develop original thinking, abstraction and problem-solving skills. More than one million students have successful learned mathematics from Karl Smith's textbooks.

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  • Diverse Answers: A flexible and powerful answer evaluator that accepts diverse interpretations so your students are not penalized for entering a mathematically equivalent or differently formatted answer.
  • Analytics: With powerful analytics tools in WebAssign, you can assess course performance, determine concept mastery, and identify at-risk students.
  • Course Packs: Get started with the assignment portion of your course with pre-built assessments designed by subject matter experts. Use these as they are, customize them to your liking, or design your own by personally selecting the exercises you wish to assign.
  • By the Book: WebAssign elevates the superior content and pedagogy of the text by offering algorithmically-generated assignments based on end-of-section questions directly from the book.
  • Timely Help: Promotes independent learning with a wide range of help tools at the question or assignment level—such as Watch It videos, Master It tutorials, and Read It links to the ebook—and feedback when students need it to complete assignments and help them learn the concepts.
  • Teach Your Way: Facilitates learning through fully customizable settings including automatic point adjustments and browser lockdown, empowering you to build the course to your needs and keep students motivated.
  • Grading: WebAssign saves you time spent grading, while providing students with an intuitive experience and instant feedback.
  • Courses & Sections: Creating a course in WebAssign takes only a few minutes. Setup is intuitive, and its flexible platform supports all course designs.
  • Question Creation: Create your own questions in WebAssign with ease. Use our built-in templates or start from scratch with detailed documentation and step-by-step video tutorials.
  • Secure Testing: Concerned about cheating? WebAssign enables you to password-protect assignments, set a time limit for completion, restrict access to certain IP addresses, and even prevent students from accessing other applications on their computer while taking the test.
  • Peer Collaboration: WebAssign gives you the flexibility to share assignments and question sets with your faculty colleagues as well as share course management tasks with teaching assistants.
  • Communication: Built-in email and announcement capabilities provide flexible and convenient options for instructor/student communication.
  • LMS Integrations: WebAssign integrates with popular LMS systems for ease of use. WebAssign can eliminate manual entry of routine data by linking your institution’s information systems to our software.
  • Support & Services: WebAssign has a top-notch team of experts who are available to help whenever you need them.
  • Security & Reliability: Teacher and student records and privacy are fiercely protected in accordance with all U.S. laws, while maintaining reliable access to WebAssign and making every effort to ensure optimal system reliability and performance.
  • Accessibility: WebAssign is committed to making its services available to all students based on guidelines from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
  • Life-of-Edition Access: With WebAssign, if students are using the right code for the book, they will have continued access to the platform after the first semester as long as the course uses the same textbook and edition.

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Explore It: Developed in response to student feedback, Explore It modules begin with a brief video introduction outlining what the student will learn about and how to manipulate the interactive figure to improve conceptual understanding. The accompanying interactive figure offers guided hands-on explorations and practice questions, enabling students to test their knowledge of the dynamic, critical concepts of the course.

Animation: Interactive figures enable students to improve conceptual understanding through hands-on visualization.

Lecture videos: Available for all chapters and sections of the textbook.

Cengage YouBook: This fully interactive and customizable Flash-based e-Book includes lecture videos and enables students to customize their learning experience to their exact needs.

Watch It Links: Provide step-by-step instruction with short, engaging videos that are ideal for visual learners.

Master It Tutorials: Show students how to solve a similar problem in multiple steps by providing direction along with derivation to better understand the concepts and reasoning behind the problem solving.

Practice Another Version: Lets students try another version of the question if they get stuck or need some extra practice.

Read It: Links under each question quickly jump to the corresponding section of a complete eBook that also contains links to videos and tutorials to help students learn the concepts.

Personal Study Plan: Lets your students gauge their mastery of the material through chapter and section assessments and generates individualized study plans that include various online, interactive multimedia resources.

QuickPrep: Reviews 25 key precalculus topics to help improve student readiness for calculus. Assign any of these QuickPrep modules (or any of the questions from the modules) early in the course or whenever the review is most needed in the course.

Just-in-Time: For students needing to remediate their algebra and trigonometry skills in the context of the calculus taught, assign the new Just-In-Time problems. JIT problems are carefully selected prerequisite review questions tied to specific calculus problems and assignable at the section level.

Course Packs: Ready-to-use assignments built by subject matter experts specifically for this textbook can save you time and can be customized easily to meet your teaching goals.

Life-of-Edition Access: This available option gives your students unlimited access to WebAssign courses that use this edition of the textbook at no additional cost.

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Each WebAssign online product offers the full textbook combined with a flexible and fully customizable online instructional assignments and tools.

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  • ISBN-10: 1337879681
  • ISBN-13: 9781337879682
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