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Mastering is the most effective and widely used online homework, tutorial, and assessment system for the sciences. It delivers self-paced tutorials that focus on your course objectives, provide individualized coaching, and respond to each student's progress. Mastering helps instructors maximize class time with easy-to-assign, customizable, and automatically graded assessments that motivate students to learn outside of class and arrive prepared for lecture or lab. Learn more at www.masteringnutrition.pearson.com * Focus Figure Coaching Activities guide students through key nutrition concepts with interactive mini-lessons. * MyDietAnalysis Case Study Coaching Activities provide students with hands-on diet analysis practice that can also be automatically graded. * Reading Quizzes (20 questions per chapter) ensure that students have completed the assigned reading before class. * 28 ABC News Videos bring nutrition to life and spark discussion with up to date hot topics that occur in the nutrition field and include multiple choice questions that provide wrong-answer feedback to redirect students to the correct answer.
* 40 animations explain big picture concepts that help students learn the hardest topics in nutrition. These animations have questions that provide wrong-answer feedback that address students' common misconceptions. * NutriTools Coaching Activities allow students to combine and experiment with different food options and learn firsthand how to build healthier meals. * MP3s relate to chapter content and come with multiple choice questions that provide wrong-answer feedback. * Access to Get Ready to Nutrition gives students extra math and chemistry study assistance. * The study area is broken down into learning areas and includes videos, animations, MP3s, and much more.