Basic College Mathematics (Bittinger)

Key differences between 12th and 11th editions

• Time lapse between current and previous publications: 5 years (2014 vs 2009).
• The Twelfth Ed. of Bittinger's textbook includes new To-the-Point Objective Videos, including new Interactive Your Turn Exercises, where students solve exercises and receive instant feedback on their work.
• New interactive Student Success Module in MyMathLab.
• Chapter 3 "Fraction Notation and Mixed Numerals" includes new subsection 3.7b "Simplify complex fractions". Former 11th edition's Objective 3.7b "Estimate with fraction notation and mixed numerals" is now 3.7c.
• Chapter 4 "Decimal Notation" -- subsection 4.2d "Balance a checkbook" has been deleted.
• Chapter 7 "Data, Graphs, and Statistics":
• Subsection 7.1d "Comparing two sets of data using their mean" has been deleted.
• Subsection 7.2b "Extract and interpret data from graphs" has been improved -- there is expanded coverage of graphs where areas of regions of the graph are proportional to the numbers that the regions represent.
• New subsection 7.2c "Extract and interpret data from histograms".