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Pirnot's Mathematics All Around offers the supportive and clear writing style thatyou need to developyour math skills. By helping to reduceyour math anxiety, Pirnot helpsyou to understand the use of math in the world around you. You appreciate that the author's approach is like the helpyou would receive duringyour own instructors' office hours.

The Fifth Edition increases the text's emphasis on developing problem-solving skills with additional support in the text and new problem-solving questions in MyMathLab. Quantitative reasoning is brought to the forefront with new Between the Numbers features and related exercises. Since practice is the key to success in this course, exercise sets are updated and expanded. MyMathLab offers additional exercise coverage plus new question types for problem-solving, vocabulary, reading comprehension, and more.