Thomas' Calculus Media Upgrade

Calculus hasn't changed, but your students have. Many of today's students have seen calculus before at the high school level. However, professors report nationwide that students come into their calculus courses with weak backgrounds in algebra and trigonometry, two areas of knowledge vital to the mastery of calculus. Thomas' Calculus, Media Upgrade, Eleventh Edition responds to the needs of today's students by developing their conceptual understanding while maintaining a rigor appropriate to the calculus course. Thomas' Calculus, Media Upgrade, Eleventh Edition is now available with an enhanced MyMathLab® course-the ultimate homework, tutorial and study solution for today's students. The enhanced MyMathLab course includes a rich and flexible set of course materials and features innovative Java® Applets, Group Projects, and new MathXL® exercises. This text is also available with WebAssign® and WeBWorK®.Strong Examples and Exercise Sets encourage students to think clearly about the problems, reinforcing their mathematical intuition. Exceptional Art Captions and Multifigured Images provide insight for students and support quantitative and conceptual reasoning. Strong Multivariable Coverage helps students make the leap from single variable to multivariable calculus. Flexible Table of Contents that divides complex topics into smaller sections and provides instructors with unlimited flexibility in creating course outlines. The table of contents introduces the exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions in Chapter 7 and continues to revisit these ideas in subsequent chapters of the text.