For All Practical Purposes: Mathematical Literacy In Today's World - Brossura

COMAP

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0716769018 ISBN 13: 9780716769019

Casa editrice: W H Freeman & Co, 2005

Riassunto

"For All Practical Purposes" is the most effective and engaging textbook available for showing mathematics at work in areas with a direct impact on our lives (consumer products and advertising, politics, the economy, the Internet). Designed for students from a non-maths background who think that mathematics is irrelevant and dull and for instructors who want to enliven their classes with active participation and reality based problem solving. Supplements "Study Guide" (0-7167-6946-8); "Student Solutions Manual" (0-7167-0010-7); "Instructor's Survival Kit" (0-7167-7777-0); "Teaching Assistants Guide" (0-7167-0128-6); "Instructor's Manual" (0-7167-6947-6); "Instructor's Resource CD-ROM" (0-7167-6940-9).

Su questo libro

L'autore:

COMAP, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, is a group of mathematicians and teachers dedicated to helping students learn by showing how mathematics is put to work in their lives.

Contenuti:

PART 1: MANAGEMENT SCIENCES
Urban Services
Business Efficiency
Planning and Scheduling
Optimization: Finding the Best Solution
PART 2: STATISTICS: THE SCIENCE OF DATA
Exploring Data Distributions
Exploring Data: Relationships
Data for Decisions
Probability: The Mathematics of Chance
PART 3: VOTING AND SOCIAL CHOICE
Social Dream: The Impossible Dream
The Manipulability of Voting Systems
Weighted Voting Systems
Electing the President
PART 4: FAIRNESS AND GAME THEORY
Fair Division
Apportionment
Game Theory
PART 5: THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION
Identification Numbers
Managing Information
PART 6: ON SIZE AND GROWTH
Growth and Form
Symmetry and Patterns
Tilings
PART 7: YOUR MONEY AND RESOURCES
Savings Models
Borrowing Models
The Economics of Resources

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W H Freeman & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0716769018
• ISBN 13: 9780716769019
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 894