For laboratory courses in Biotechnology.

Help your students succeed with an accessible introduction to common laboratory calculations. The book focuses on the basics, helping even students with good math skills to practice the most frequently encountered types of problems, enabling them to be much more competent with mathematics in the lab.

Features

• Common laboratory problems are discussed, with all material applied to real situations. This makes students more competent when confronted with calculations in the biotechnology laboratory.

• Multiple strategies for solving problems help students to better understand the underlying math. Students learn that there is frequently more than one path to the correct answer, giving them flexibility in thinking about problems and the ability to check their answers by solving a problem two different ways.

• While the text and problems were written by biologists, the text was edited by mathematicians. The problems and topics focus on common problems in the biotechnology laboratory, while mathematicians helped ensure correct math content.

• Hundreds of practice problems are provided, all with solutions. Many problems also include boxed, complete explanations.

• Ample textual material enables students to complete the material in a self-paced course structure with little teacher assistance.

• Hundreds of “story problems” relate to real situations in the lab.

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