The first-semester calculus curriculum has been reorganized into chapters, each of which is a study of particular types of functions and associated applications. By the end of each chapter, you will have had the opportunity to gain an understanding of the graphical, algebraic, and numerical nature of the featured functions. The curriculum develops early and reinforces often the main ideas from both differential and integral calculus in the context of each function type and associated applications. Relevant precalculus topics are reviewed as necessary.

The organization of the textbook is intended to promote focus and efficiency. Each lesson consists of one page of lesson notes, one page of examples, and two pages of class activities. The lesson notes may seem brief but this is so that only small bits of information are covered in each lesson and that only the relevant and necessary content is included. Convince yourself that the presented information is all that is needed to complete the quizzes and homework.

Each chapter of the textbook contains a hardcopy set of review problems. An individualized version of the review set is also assigned to each student on WeBWorK. (See below for more information on WeBWorK.) Solutions to the hardcopy review sets appear in Appendix C.