Preface  (Page 4/6)

Supporting Features

Four small but important features serve to support Examples:

Be prepared!

How to

Try it

Media

Disclaimer: While we have selected tutorials that closely align to our learning objectives, we did not produce these tutorials, nor were they specifically produced or tailored to accompany Openstax Prealgebra. We are deeply grateful to James Sousa for compiling his incredibly robust and excellent library of video tutorials, which he has made available to the public under a CC-BY-SA license at (External Link) .

Section Exercises

Each section of every chapter concludes with a well-rounded set of exercises that can be assigned as homework or used selectively for guided practice. Exercise sets are named Practice Makes Perfect to encourage completion of homework assignments.

• Exercises correlate to the learning objectives. This facilitates assignment of personalized study plans based on individual student needs.
• Exercises are carefully sequenced to promote building of skills.
• Values for constants and coefficients were chosen to practice and reinforce arithmetic facts.
• Even and odd-numbered exercises are paired.
• Exercises parallel and extend the text examples and use the same instructions as the examples to help students easily recognize the connection.
• Applications are drawn from many everyday experiences, as well as those traditionally found in college math texts.
• Everyday Math highlights practical situations where the math of that section is used.
• Writing Exercises are included in every Exercise Set to encourage conceptual understanding, critical thinking, and literacy.

Chapter Review Features

Each chapter concludes with a review of the most important takeaways, as well as additional practice problems that students can use to prepare for exams.

• Key Terms provides a formal definition for each bold-faced term in the chapter.
• Key Concepts summarizes the most important ideas introduced in each section, linking back to the relevant Example(s) in case students need to review.
• Chapter Review Exercises include practice problems that recall the most important concepts from each section.
• Practice Test includes additional problems assessing the most important learning objectives from the chapter.
• Answer Key includes the answers to all Try It exercises and every other exercise from the Section Exercises, Chapter Review Exercises, and Practice Test.