> <snip>
> The problem is finding a text book. Trust me I'm still looking for
> the perfect book. In the interum we settled on "modules".. produced
> in spiral bound format from : Innovative Textbooks in Irvine, CA
> (phone number 714 854-5667. We use three modules ... Mathematics
> of the Social Sciences, Applications of Exponents and Logarithms and
> Probability and Statistics. OF the three I really like the first two
> and find I have to supplement the 3rd as it doesn't have normal
> distribution and sampling techniques in it. The cost to the student
> of purchasing all 3 modules is TOTAL around $20. Some of the
> students are selective when selling them back to the bookstore.
> Keeping this one...selling this one back.
I've used these (Steven Roman is the author) to supplement college
algebra too - there's also a good one called Codes and Coding, though
the second edition I have must have been revised by now.
I've used some UMAP stuff too:
http://www.avcc.edu.au/avcc/internat/umapau95.htm
It's a well of plenty for wayout neat-o modules!
Excuse the teenspeak - I'm gearing up for a new semester...
Geoff Hagopian
Palm Desert, CA
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