Philip Schmidt - McGraw-Hills 500 College Algebra and Trigonometry Questions: Ace Your College Exams

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Philip Schmidt has a BS from Brooklyn College and an MA in mathematics and a PhD in mathematics education from Syracuse University. He is currently professor of secondary education at SUNY New Paltz, where he coordinates the secondary mathematics education program. He is the author of 3000 Solved Problems in Precalculus as well as numerous journal articles.

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INTRODUCTION

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