Preface Project Notes
From Portland Community College Math Department.
We dedicate this book to our students. May you have greater ease in paying for college and grow your proficiency and confidence in math.
Acknowledgements.
We would like to thank Amy Hofer and grant support from Open Oregon Educational Resources and the PCC librarians and OER steering committee. Thanks also to Kaela Parks and Michael Cantino of Accessible Education and Disability Resources for their expertise on accessibility. Extended thanks to Alex Jordan for continued support with PreTeXt.
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pretextbook.orgAntiracist and Culturally Responsive Elements.
Our goal is for our students to see themselves in this book. We have added stories of mathematicians and economists with identities that have traditionally been underrepresented in textbooks. We use local places and culturally diverse names in the examples and exercises. We have examples with they/them/their pronouns and same-sex couples.
Philosophy.
Our goal is for the content of this book to be relevant and accessible to our readers. We emphasize technology, conceptual understanding and communication over rote calculation. However, some manual calculation is important to understand what the technology is doing. We emphasize readily available spreadsheets and GeoGebra throughout the text.
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Acknowledgements.
This project was completed with grant support from the Colorado Open Educational Resources (OER) Grant program under the Colorado Department of Higher Education.
