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The text is organized in the same manner as many publisher's texts overall, but with a few significant differences, which are pointed out below.

• Each section begins with specific performance criteria that are addressed in that section.

• Chapter 1 contains a fairly extensive review of what I would consider to be Intermediate Algebra topics.

• I have made an effort to weave "threads" through the book, so that students are brought back to previously developed ideas multiple times. There is an effort to go from specific to general, rather than the other way around (as is often the practice of "real" mathematicians).

• Rather than lumping all of the general development of functions into one chapter, there is a bit in chapter 2 that is needed for linear, quadratic, polynomial and rational functions. The topics of compositions of functions and inverse functions is left until later, prior to the chapter on exponential and logarithm functions.

• Treatment of the effect of transformations on graphs is developed throughout the book, beginning with translations and vertical reflections. Dilations (stretching and shrinking) and horizontal reflection are left until l
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• There is no treatment of complex and repeated roots of polynomial functions, and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. I hope to eventually add an appendix on those things but, at this time, anyone who wishes to cover those topics would need to be prepared to add their own materials.

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