Useful, straightforward, thought-provoking, and fun: qualities college students rarely ascribe to mathematics. But this text presents just such mathematics, for students who have studied some algebra and want to know more, either to pursue one of the social or life sciences or to satisfy their pure intellectual curiosity. The book consists entirely of problems in which mathematics models familiar phenomena, like automobile fuel consumption, depreciation, population growth, inflation, and the spread of epidemics. To investigate such problems requires algebra: a thorough study of linear equations, unit calculations, the estimation of large numbers. Throughout the book the nature of the problems studied dictates the approach to the mathematics -- setting up models and drawing inferences, but little formal manipulation and no proofs identified as such.

Using algebra

Science & Math

Bolker, Ethan D.

Mathematics

Little,Brown

This book and CD set treats learning a programming language much like learning a spoken language: programming is best learned by immersion. Through building interesting programs and addressing real design issues much earlier than other texts, this book moves beyond the placement of semicolons and other syntactic details and is able to discuss the architecture of serious programs: how delegation and inheritance allow objects to cooperate to do useful work. Throughout the text, the authors deal with programs that implement applications realistic enough to be convincing.

Java Outside In Paperback with CD-ROM

Computers & Technology

Campbell, Bill

Programming

Cambridge University Press

Java Outside In Hardback with CD-ROM

Useful, straightforward, thought-provoking, and fun: qualities college students rarely ascribe to mathematics. But this text presents just such mathematics, for students who have studied some algebra and want to know more, either to pursue one of the social or life sciences or to satisfy their pure intellectual curiosity. The book consists entirely of problems in which mathematics models familiar phenomena, like automobile fuel consumption, depreciation, population growth, inflation, and the spread of epidemics. To investigate such problems requires algebra: a thorough study of linear equations, unit calculations, the estimation of large numbers. Throughout the book the nature of the problems studied dictates the approach to the mathematics -- setting up models and drawing inferences, but little formal manipulation and no proofs identified as such.

Using Algebra

Wyndham Hall Press

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 years' 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.

Common Sense Mathematics (Mathematical Association of America Textbooks)

Mast, Maura B.

American Mathematical Society

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