Caleb, I thought Math for Health Sciences for years. And math applications are abundant in my profession to the degree its professional topics are really just applied math principles. My observation is unless people use material they learn in a class (such as in high school or even grammar school), they won't have a daily, regular application to retain the principles and operations, so the information goes stagnant. I try to use every day examples whenever possible, that helps a little. But if I know for sure my students will absoultely have to know...XYZ before leaving my class, a pretest about XYZ can give me an overview about where to put emphasis. Barry Westling