About our author Elayn Martin-Gay has taught mathematics at the University of New Orleans for more than 25 years. Her numerous teaching awards include the local University Alumni Association's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Outstanding Developmental Educator at University of New Orleans presented by the Louisiana Association of Developmental Educators. Prior to writing textbooks Elayn Martin-Gay developed an acclaimed series of lecture videos to support developmental mathematics students. These highly successful videos originally served as the foundation materials for her texts. Today the videos are specific to each book in her series. She has also created Chapter Test Prep Videos to help students during their most teachable moment (as they prepare for a test) along with Instructor-to-Instructor videos that provide teaching tips hints and suggestions for every developmental mathematics course including basic mathematics prealgebra beginning algebra and intermediate algebra. Elayn is the author of 13 published textbooks and a new Interactive Assignment MyLab Math course all specializing in developmental mathematics courses. She has also published series in Algebra 1 Algebra 2 and Geometry. She has participated as an author across the broadest range of educational materials: textbooks videos tutorial software and courseware. This provides an opportunity of various combinations for an integrated teaching and learning package offering great consistency for the student. . Language: English