Ignacio Bello attended the University of South Florida, where he earned a B.A. and M.A. in Mathematics. He began teaching at USF in 1967, and in 1971 he became a member of the Faculty at Hillsborough Community College and Coordinator of the Math and Sciences Department. Professor Bello instituted the USF/HCC remedial program, a program which started with 17 students taking Intermediate Algebra and grew to more than 800 students with courses covering Developmental English, Reading, and Mathematics. Aside from the present series of books (Basic College Mathematics, Introductory Algebra, and Intermediate Algebra), Professor Bello is the author of more than 40 textbooks including Topics in Contemporary Mathematics, College Algebra, Algebra and Trigonometry, and Business Mathematics. Many of these textbooks have been translated into Spanish. With Professor Fran Hopf, Bello started the Algebra Hotline, the only live, college-level television help program in Florida.Professor Bello is featured in three television programs on the award winning Education Channel. He has helped create and develop the USF Mathematics Department Website (http://mathcenter.usf.edu) which serves as support for the Finite Math, College Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, and Introductory Algebra, and CLAST classes at USF. You can see Professor Bello's presentations and streaming videos at this website, as well as at http://www.ibello.com. Professor Bello is a member of the MAA and AMATYC and has given many presentations regarding the teaching of mathematics at the local, state, and national levels.

1. WHOLE NUMBERS 1.1 Standard Numerals 1.2 Ordering and Rounding Whole Numbers 1.3 Addition 1.4 Subtraction 1.5 Multiplication 1.6 Division 1.7 Primes, Factors, and Exponents 1.8 Order of Operations and Grouping Symbols 1.9 Equations and Problem Solving
2. FRACTIONS AND MIXED NUMBERS 2.1 Fractions and Mixed Numbers 2.2 Equivalent Fractions 2.3 Multiplication and Division of Fractions and Mixed Numbers 2.4 Addition and Subtraction of Fractions 2.5 Addition and Subtraction of Mixed Numbers 2.6 Order of Operations and Grouping Symbols 2.7 Equations and Problem Solving 3.
DECIMALS 3.1 Addition and Subtraction of Decimals 3.2 Multiplication and Division of Decimals 3.3 Fractions and Decimals 3.4 Decimals, Fractions, and Order 3.5 Equations and Problem Solving
4. RATIO, RATE, AND PROPORTION 4.1 Ratio and Proportion 4.2 Rates 4.3 Word Problems Involving Proportions
5. PERCENT 5.1 Percent Notation 5.2 Percent Problems 5.3 Solving Percent Problems Using Proportions 5.4 Taxes, Interest, Commissions, and Discounts 5.5 Applications: Percent of Increase or Decrease 5.6 Consumer Credit
6. STATISTICS AND GRAPHS 6.1 Tables and Pictographs 6.2 Bar and Line Graphs 6.3 Circle Graphs (Pie Charts) 6.4 Mean, Median, and Mode
7. MEASUREMENT AND THE METRIC SYSTEM 7.1 Linear (Length) Measures 7.2 The Metric System 7.3 Converting Between American and Metric Units 7.4 Converting Units of Area 7.5 Capacity 7.6 Weight and Temperature
8. GEOMETRY 8.1 Finding Perimeters 8.2 Finding Areas 8.3 Volume of Solids 8.4 Angles and Triangles 8.5 Square Roots and Pythagoras' Theorem
9. THE REAL NUMBERS 9.1 Addition and Subtraction of Integers 9.2 Multiplication and Division of Integers 9.3 The Rational Numbers 9.4 Order of Operations
10. INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRA 10.1 Introduction to Algebra 10.2 The Algebra of Exponents 10.3 Scientific Notation 10.4 Solving Linear Equations 10.5 Applications: Word Problems