Summary of Adaptations
Full Resource Adaptations
Across all chapters of the resource, the following changes were made (where necessary):
- Edited all mathematical notations to have them appear in LaTex
- Created and added H5P activities for select exercises
- Embedded some content videos (or added video links) from YouTube
- Added solutions with drop-downs for select exercises
- Added Learning Objectives for all Sections
- Enabled glossary term functionality
- Consistent colored textboxes throughout
- Added Heading 1 to main parts for Table of Contents
- Minor editing, removal, and reordering of content (including exercises and examples) for flow and clarity
- Adjusted language for clarity
- Images on Introductions captioned for accessibility – same captions provided from source; alt-tag used as provided from source
Chapter-Specific Changes
Chapter 1 Linear Equations
- Removed end of Section problems
- Section 1.2 – Removed example 2
Chapter 2 Matrices
- Matrix Calculator (Section 2.5) added
Chapter 3 Linear Programming
- Section 3.2:
- Removed the “Readiness Quiz” in the beginning of the section
- Took out the examples where they asked to write the inequality shown by the shaded region of the graph with the given boundary line
- Made Example and Exercise changes to incorporate Louisiana references
Chapter 4 Finance
- Section 4.2: used “Important Topics of this Section” to objectives and edited as needed
- Made Example and Exercise changes to incorporate Louisiana
- Section 4.4: added explanation of amortization schedule
- TVM Solver (Section 4.6) added
- Examples and Exercises from Sections 4.2-4.5, changed explanations on how to work them using the TVM Solver
Chapter 5 Sets
- Removed content (photo at the beginning, People in Mathematics, Video, and Who Knew?)
Chapter 7 Logic
- Sections 7.1 and 7.2:
- changed “checkpoints” to “Notes”
- removed extra “FYI” information
- Section 7.3:
- changed (c) in example 1 and exercise 1 to make it about Louisiana
- Added content video links
- Made Example and Exercise changes to incorporate Louisiana
Chapter 8 Statistics
- Removed Bar Charts for Labeled Data section
- Removed Google Sheets Examples and Exercises
- Edited text to include “In this book, we will not compute [latex]r[/latex], but instead will approximate it based on the shape of the scatterplots. In future statistics courses, you may learn how to use technology to compute [latex]r[/latex].”
- Made Example and Exercise changes to incorporate Louisiana
- Statistics Calculator (Section 8.8) added
Back Matter
- Matrix Calculator page added
- TVM Solver page added
- Statistics Calculator (Desmos) page added
