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Math 132: Text & calculator

Required textbook

Homework problem assignments and daily readings will be from:
  • Stewart, Calculus: Early Transcendentals Vol 1 University of Massachusetts Amherst, Sixth Edition, Thompson Brooks/
    Cole, 2007. Ppaperback. ISBN 0-495-48312-5.

    It is essential that you get this new Sixth Edition.

The text is a version of Stewart’s 6th edition made especially for our course. Because Stewart’s 6th edition is new, you will not be able to buy a used copy. However, this custom UMass edition costs only one- third of what the regular, hardbound version costs!
Stewart_cvr1

The following lecture sections, and possibly some others, will also require the WebAssign on-line system for homework.

Lecture section(s)

Instructor

A and C

Schwartz

B

Eisenberg

E

Wolbach

G

Calden

J and K

Mehrotra

The text is available at the campus Follett’s Textbook Annex:

Textbook alone:

$78.75

ISBN 0-495-48312-5

Textbook+WebAssign

$92.00

ISBN 0-495-47006-6

WebAssign access only
(if you own the text)

$10 Textbook Annex
$25 WebAssign site

 

Calculator

You should have access to a suitable graphing scientific calculator for homework and all of the exams except Exam 2.

See the Calculator skills page for information on what you need to know how to do with your calculator. 

Picture of TI-89 Titanium handheld graphing calculatorRecommended: the Texas Instruments TI-89 Titanium. If you’re buying a new calculator, this is the one to get. It will do symbolic manipulations common in calculus and assist you with certain paper-and-pencil calculations.

The main limitation of TI calculators with model numbers below 89 is their symbolic capabilities. For Math 132, you’ll surely want a calculator that can find indefinite integrals symbolically, in order to check your paper-and-pencil work; according to the TI web site, TI models 83 through 86 cannot do that.

If you insist upon using some other graphing scientific calculator, you do so “at your own risk”: Even if you bring along the instruction book, there is no guarantee that your instructor or TA can help you with such a calculator’s use.

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