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9781470461348 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language |
English |
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| Edition number |
23 |
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510 |
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BOL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bolker, Ethan D. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Common sense mathematics : |
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Vol. 63 / |
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Ethan D. Bolker & Maura B. Mast |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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2nd ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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Washington : |
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Mathematical Association of America, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xx, 308 p.: |
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ill. ; |
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26 cm. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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1. Calculating on the Back of an Envelope<br/>2. Units and Unit Conversions<br/>3. Percentages, Sales Tax and Discounts<br/>4. Inflation<br/>5. Average Values<br/>6. Income Distribution<br/>7. Excel, Charts, and Statistics<br/>8. Electricity Bills and Income Taxes<br/>9. Linear Functions<br/>10. Climate Change<br/> |
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11. Linear Models<br/>12. Compound Interest<br/>13. Exponential Growth<br/>14. Borrowing and Saving<br/>15. Probability<br/>16. Counting, Betting, Insurance<br/>17. Break the Bank<br/>18. Independent Events<br/>19. How Good Is That Test? |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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Common Sense Mathematics is a text for a one semester college-level course in quantitative literacy. The text emphasizes common sense and common knowledge in approaching real problems through popular news items and finding useful mathematical tools and frames with which to address those questions. We asked ourselves what we hoped our students would remember about this course in ten year's time. From that ten year perspective thoughts about syllabus-"what topics should we cover?"--Seemed much too narrow. What matters more is our wish to change the way our students' minds work-the way they approach a problem, or, more generally, the way they approach the world. Most people "skip the numbers" in newspapers, magazines, on the web and (more importantly) even in financial information. We hope that in ten years our students will follow the news, confident in their ability to make sense of the numbers they find there and in their daily lives. Most quantitative reasoning texts are arranged by mathematical topics to be mastered. Since the mathematics is only a part of what we hope students learn, we've chosen another strategy. We look at real life stories that can be best understood with careful reading and a little mathematics |
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Problems and exercises |
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Résolution de problème Problèmes et exercices |
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| Department Name |
Mathematics |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mast, Maura B. |
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Project book |
