From nature, to science and industry, to economics, finance, and politics, For All Practical Purposes uses both contemporary and classic examples to help students appreciate the use of math in their everyday lives. The book offers a series of independent chapters on high-interest topics, including business management, voting, and bar codes, with relevant and interesting applications central to the unfolding of each chapter's story. This format makes it easy for instructors to cover just the material they want to present, or even craft a custom version of the text.
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Professional and scholarly
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Illustrations
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Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
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978-1-4641-2473-0 (9781464124730)
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COMAP, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, is an award-winning non-profit organization whose mission is to improve mathematics education for students of all ages. Since 1980, COMAP has worked with teachers, students, and business people to create learning environments where mathematics is used to investigate and model real issues in our world.
Part I MANAGEMENT SCIENCE.- 1. Urban Services.- 2. Business Efficiency.- 3. Planning and Scheduling.- 4. Linear Programming and the Transportation Problem.- Part II STATISTICS: THE SCIENCE OF DATA.- 5. Exploring Data: Distributions.- 6. Exploring Data: Relationships.- 7. Data for Decisions.- 8. Probability: The Mathematics of Chance.- Part III VOTING AND SOCIAL CHOICE.- 9. Social Choice: The Impossible Dream.- 10. The Manipulability of Voting Systems.- 11. Weighted Voting Systems.- 12. Electing the President.- Part IV FAIRNESS AND GAME THEORY.- 13. Fair Division.- 14. Apportionment.- 15. Game Theory: The Mathematics of Competition.- Part V THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION.- 16. Identification Numbers.- 17. Encoding Information.- Part VI ON SIZE AND GROWTH.- 18. Growth and Form.- 19. Symmetry and Patterns.- 20. Tilings.- Part VII YOUR MONEY AND RESOURCES.- 21. Savings Models.- 22. Borrowing Models.- 23. The Economics of Resources.
