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Using and Understanding Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach prepares students for the mathematics they will encounter in college courses, their future career, and life in general. Its quantitative reasoning approach helps students to build the skills needed to understand major issues in everyday life, and compels students to acquire the problem-solving tools that they will need to think critically about quantitative issues in contemporary society.
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Synopsis
ALERT: Before you purchase, check with your instructor or review your course syllabus to ensure that you select the correct ISBN. Several versions of Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products exist for each title, including customized versions for individual schools, and registrations are not transferable. In addition, you may need a CourseID, provided by your instructor, to register for and use Pearson's MyLab & Mastering products.
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Synopsis
Using and Understanding Mathematics: A Quantitative Reasoning Approach prepares students for the mathematics they will encounter in college courses, their future career, and life in general. Its quantitative reasoning approach helps students to build the skills needed to understand major issues in everyday life, and compels students to acquire the problem-solving tools that they will need to think critically about quantitative issues in contemporary society.
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- Improved results with MyMathLab ® , which is designed to work hand-in-hand with the book and offers additional practice and learning aids that improve student learning in measurable ways.
- The real-world focus turns students’ attention to the math they will need for college, career, and life.
- A wide range of exercises and problem types end each unit, making it easy for instructors to create assignments to fit their course goals.
- Study and review features in every chapter are designed to help students use their time effectively.
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About the Author
Jeffrey Bennett specializes in mathematics and science education. He has taught at every level from pre-school through graduate school, including more than 50 college courses in mathematics, physics, astronomy, and education. His work on Using and Understanding Mathematics began in 1987, when he helped create a new mathematics course for the University of Colorado’s core curriculum. Variations on this course, with its quantitative reasoning approach, are now taught at hundreds of colleges nationwide. In addition to his work in mathematics, Dr. Bennett (whose PhD is in astrophysics) has written leading college-level textbooks in astronomy, statistics, and the new science of astrobiology, as well as books for the general public. He also proposed and developed both the Colorado Scale Model Solar System on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus and the Voyage Scale Model Solar System, a permanent, outdoor exhibit on the National Mall in Washington, DC. He has recently begun writing science books for children, including the award-winning Max Goes to the Moon and Max Goes to Mars. When not working, he enjoys swimming as well as hiking the trails of Boulder, Colorado with his family.
William L. Briggs has been on the mathematics faculty at the University of Colorado at Denver for 22 years. He teaches numerous courses within the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and has special interest in teaching calculus, differential equations, and mathematical modeling. He developed the quantitative reasoning course for liberal arts students at University of Colorado at Denver supported by his textbook Using and Understanding Mathematics. He has written two other tutorial monographs, The Multigrid Tutorial and The DFT: An Owner's Manual for the Discrete Fourier Transform, as well as Ants, Bikes, Clocks, a mathematical problem-solving text for undergraduates. He is a University of Colorado President's Teaching Scholar, an Outstanding Teacher awardee of the Rocky Mountain Section of the MAA, and the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship to Ireland. Bill lives with his wife, Julie, and their Gordon setter, Seamus, in Boulder, Colorado. He loves to bake bread, run trails, and rock climb in the mountains near his home.
Table of Contents
The table of contents below shows the review topics (bulleted text) that are integrated throughout the MyMathLab® courses. The objectives included below in each chapter's Section R are the developmental topics that are integrated into the Integrated Review MyMathLab course, and are the objectives for which the Integrated Review Worksheets are available.The Integrated Review includes worksheets and videos designed to help students master these important topics.
1. Thinking Critically
1.R Integrated Review
- 1.R.1 Compare real numbers
- 1.R.2 Evaluate an algebraic expression
- 1.R.3 Classify real numbers to introduce Venn Diagram concepts
1A Living in the Media Age
1B Propositions and Truth Values
1C Sets and Venn Diagrams
1D Analyzing Arguments
1E Critical Thinking in Everyday Life
2. Approaches to Problem Solving
2.R Integrated Review
- 2.R.1 Multiply and divide fractions to introduce dimensional analysis
- 2.R.2 Write a number in scientific or standard notation
2A Working with Units
2B Problem Solving with Units
2C Problem Solving Guidelines and Hints
3. Numbers in the Real World
3.R Integrated Review
- 3.R.1 Simplify fractions
- 3.R.2 Multiply and Divide by decimal values to introduce percentages
- 3.R.3 Percent conversions
- 3.R.4 Multiply or divide using scientific notation
- 3.R.5 Decimal rounding
3A Uses and Abuses of Percentages
3B Putting Numbers in Perspective
3C Dealing with Uncertainty
3D Index Numbers: The CPI and Beyond
3E How Numbers Deceive: Polygraphs, Mammograms and More
4. Managing Money
4.R Integrated Review
- 4.R.1 Use order of operations for real numbers
- 4.R.2 Solve proportions
- 4.R.3 Find the amount, base, or percent in a percent problem by solving an equation
- 4.R.4 Solve linear equations using both the addition and multiplication properties.
- 4.R.5 Evaluate radical expressions
4A Taking Control of your Finances
4B The Power of Compounding
4C Savings Plans and Investments
4D Loan Payments, Credit Cards and Mortgages
4E Income Taxes
4F Understanding the Federal Budget
5. Statistical Reasoning
5.R Integrated Review
- 5.R.1 Read and interpret graph(s)
5A Fundamentals of Statistics
5B Should You Believe a Statistical Study?
5C Statistical Tables and Graphs
5D Graphics in the Media
5E Correlation and Causality
6. Putting Statistics to Work
6.R Integrated Review
- 6.R.1 Calculate average
- 6.R.2 Find the square root of a number
- 6.R.3 Find the percent by solving an equation
- 6.R.4 Evaluate and approximate radical expressions
6A Characterizing Data
6B Measures of Variation
6C The Normal Distribution
6D Statistical Inference
7. Probability: Living with the Odds
7.R Integrated Review
- 7.R.1 Evaluate an exponential expression
- 7.R.2 Multiply real numbers
- 7.R.3 Write or evaluate algebraic expressions using exponents.
7A Fundamentals of Probability
7B Combining Probabilities
7C The Law of Large Numbers
7D Assessing Risk
7E Counting and Probability
8. Exponential Astonishment
8.R Integrated Review
- 8.R.1 Graph exponential functions
- 8.R.2 Solve exponential equations
- 8.R.3 Evaluate logarithms
8A Growth: Linear versus Exponential
8B Doubling Time and Half-Life
8C Real Population Growth
8D Logarithmic Scales: Earthquakes, Sounds, and Acids
9. Modeling Our World
9.R Integrated Review
- 9.R.1 Identify and plot points on a coordinate plane
- 9.R.2 Graph equations in the rectangular coordinate system
- 9.R.3 Decide whether an ordered pair is a solution of a system of linear equations in two variables
- 9.R.4 Find the slope of a line
- 9.R.5 Write equivalent exponential and logarithmic equations
9A Functions: The Building Blocks of Mathematical Models
9B Linear Modeling
9C Exponential Modeling
10. Modeling with Geometry
10.R Integrated Review
- 10.R.1 Find the perimeter of a polygon or the circumference of a circle
- 10.R.2 Find the area of a polygon or circle
- 10.R.3 Find the volume of the geometric solid
- 10.R.4 Find the missing sides of similar triangles
- 10.R.5 Find the unknown side of a right triangle, using the Pythagorean Theorem
10A Fundamentals of Geometry
10B Problem Solving with Geometry
10C Fractal Geometry
11. Mathematics and the Arts
11.R Integrated Review
- 11.R.1 Simplify radical expressions
11A Mathematics and Music
11B Perspective and Symmetry
11C Proportion and the Golden Ratio
12. Mathematics and Politics
12.R Integrated Review
- 12.R.1 Evaluate an algebraic expression in table form
12A Voting: Does the Majority Always Rule?
12B Theory of Voting
12C Apportionment: The House of Representatives and Beyond 12D Dividing the Political Pie