Business Calculus by Dale Hoffman, Shana Calloway, and David Lippman is a derivative work based on Dale Hoffman’s Contemporary Calculus. The course covers one semester of Business Calculus for college students and assumes students have had College Algebra. Students will learn to apply calculus in economic and business settings, like maximizing profit or minimizing average cost, finding elasticity of demand, or finding the present value of a continuous income stream.
This course package is delivered either in Lumen OHM, or can be imported into your LMS (Canvas, Blackboard, D2L, Moodle). This course also contains video examples created by James Sousa (mathispower4u.com).
This is a course that is offered by Lumen Learning. Although a course, it can easily be used as a textbook and has multiple links to OERs, including readings and videos. Lumen Learning’s mission is to make great learning opportunities available to all students, regardless of socioeconomic background.
This is being categorized as an interactive textbook for the COOL4Ed project.
This course is taught using a mastery approach. It was designed to give you the best opportunity for success. Your instructor will guide you through the process, but below are some important things to keep in mind as you begin.
Course Structure
• Each course is built around Competencies, which are important skills or knowledge that can be used in the real world • Each Competency has enabling Learning Outcomes that teach you what you need to know to master the Competency • Each Learning Outcome is supported by Open Educational Resources, which are a range of materials that will help you build your skills and knowledge of the learning outcomes.