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Book DetailsAMS/MAA TextbooksVolume: 63; 2021; 342 ppMSC: Primary 00
This is a Revised Edition of: TEXT/33
Ten years from now, what do you want or expect your students to remember from your course? We realized that in ten years what matters will be how students approach a problem using the tools they carry with them—common sense and common knowledge—not the particular mathematics we chose for the curriculum. Using our text, students work regularly with real data in moderately complex everyday contexts, using mathematics as a tool and common sense as a guide. The focus is on problems suggested by the news of the day and topics that matter to students, like inflation, credit card debt, and loans. We use search engines, calculators, and spreadsheet programs as tools to reduce drudgery, explore patterns, and get information. Technology is an integral part of today's world—this text helps students use it thoughtfully and wisely.
This second edition contains revised chapters and additional sections, updated examples and exercises, and complete rewrites of critical material based on feedback from students and teachers who have used this text. Our focus remains the same: to help students to think carefully—and critically—about numerical information in everyday contexts.
Previous revision: TEXT/33
Ancillaries:
ReadershipUndergraduate students interested in taking a Quantitative Literacy course.
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Table of Contents
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Chapters
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Calculating on the back of an envelope
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Units and unit conversions
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Percentages, sales tax, and discounts
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Inflation
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Average values
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Income distribution—spreadsheets, charts, and statistics
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Electricity bills and income taxes—linear functions
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Climate change—linear models
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Compound interest—exponential growth
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Borrowing and saving
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Probability—counting, betting, insurance
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Break the bank—independent events
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How good is that test?
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Additional Material
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RequestsReview Copy – for publishers of book reviewsDesk Copy – for instructors who have adopted an AMS textbook for a courseInstructor's Solutions Manual – for instructors who have adopted an AMS textbook for a courseExamination Copy – for faculty considering an AMS textbook for a courseAccessibility – to request an alternate format of an AMS title
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This is a Revised Edition of: TEXT/33
Ten years from now, what do you want or expect your students to remember from your course? We realized that in ten years what matters will be how students approach a problem using the tools they carry with them—common sense and common knowledge—not the particular mathematics we chose for the curriculum. Using our text, students work regularly with real data in moderately complex everyday contexts, using mathematics as a tool and common sense as a guide. The focus is on problems suggested by the news of the day and topics that matter to students, like inflation, credit card debt, and loans. We use search engines, calculators, and spreadsheet programs as tools to reduce drudgery, explore patterns, and get information. Technology is an integral part of today's world—this text helps students use it thoughtfully and wisely.
This second edition contains revised chapters and additional sections, updated examples and exercises, and complete rewrites of critical material based on feedback from students and teachers who have used this text. Our focus remains the same: to help students to think carefully—and critically—about numerical information in everyday contexts.
Previous revision: TEXT/33
Ancillaries:
Undergraduate students interested in taking a Quantitative Literacy course.
-
Chapters
-
Calculating on the back of an envelope
-
Units and unit conversions
-
Percentages, sales tax, and discounts
-
Inflation
-
Average values
-
Income distribution—spreadsheets, charts, and statistics
-
Electricity bills and income taxes—linear functions
-
Climate change—linear models
-
Compound interest—exponential growth
-
Borrowing and saving
-
Probability—counting, betting, insurance
-
Break the bank—independent events
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How good is that test?
