Using and Understanding Mathematics : A Quantitative Reasoning Approach
ISBN: 9780201717112 | 0201717115
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Pub. Date: 1/1/2002
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The premiere text for the emerging Quantitative Reasoning/Quantitative Literacy Course offers an innovative approach for Liberal Arts/Survey Math. It provides a legitimate alternative to algebra and math appreciation courses for non-quantitative majors, helping to reduce math anxiety, emphasizing practicality, and focusing on the use of mathematics in college, career and life.
Most students taking this course do so to fulfill a requirement, but the true benefit of the course is learning how to use and understand ma... MORE
Most students taking this course do so to fulfill a requirement, but the true benefit of the course is learning how to use and understand ma... MORE
| Preface Prologue: Literacy for the Modern Worl | |
| Logic and Problem Solving | |
| Thinking Critically | |
| Recognizing Fallacies | |
| Propositions and Truth Values | |
| Sets and Venn Diagrams | |
| Analyzing Arguments 1E Critical Thinking in Everyday Life | |
| Approaches to Problem Solving | |
| The Problem-Solving Power of Units | |
| Standardiz... MORE | |
| Problem-Solving Guidelines and Hint | |
| Quantitative Information in Everyday Life | |
| Numbers in the Real World | |
| Uses and Abuses of Percentages | |
| Putting Numbers in Perspective | |
| Dealing with Uncertainty | |
| Index Numbers: The CPI and Beyond | |
| How Numbers Deceive: Polygraphs, Mammograms, and More | |
| Managing Your Money | |
| Taking Control of Your Finances | |
| The Power of Compounding | |
| Savings Plans and Investments | |
| Loan Payments, Credit Cards, and Mortgages | |
| Income Taxes | |
| Understanding the Federal Budge | |
| Probability and Statistics | |
| Statistical Reasoning | |
| Fundamentals of Statistics | |
| Should You Believe a Statistical Study | |
| Statistical Tables and Graphs | |
| Graphics in the Media | |
| Correlation and Causality | |
| Putting Statistics to Work | |
| Characterizing a Data Distribution | |
| Measures of Variation | |
| The Normal Distribution | |
| Statistical Inference | |
| Probability: Living with the Odds | |
| Fundamentals of Probability | |
| Combining Probabilities | |
| The Law of Large Numbers | |
| Assessing Risk | |
| Counting and Probabilit | |
| Modeling | |
| Exponential Astonishment | |
| Growth: Linear versus Exponential | |
| Doubling Time and Half-Life | |
| Real Population Growth | |
| Logarithmic Scales: Earthquakes, Sounds, and Acids | |
| Modeling Our World | |
| Functions: The Building Blocks of Mathematical Models | |
| Linear Modeling | |
| Exponential Modeling | |
| Modeling with Geometry | |
| Fundamentals of Geometry | |
| Problem Solving with Geometry | |
| Fractal Geometr | |
| Further Applications | |
| Mathematics and the Arts | |
| Mathematics and Music | |
| Perspective and Symmetry | |
| Proportion and the Golden Ratio | |
| Mathematics and Politics | |
| Voting: Does the Majority Always Rule | |
| Theory of Voting | |
| Apportionment: The House of Representatives and Beyond | |
| Dividing the Political Pie | |
| Mathematics and Business | |
| Network Analysis | |
| The Traveling Salesman Problem | |
| Scheduling Problem | |
| Credits Answers | |
| Index | |
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