Modern Mathematics
An Elementary Approach
8th Edition
Published on 1. January 1992
Book
Hardback
800 pages
978-0-534-16602-1 (ISBN)
Description
An elementary level textbook which may be used on any course in the teaching of basic mathematics.
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Edition
8th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
CA
United States
Publishing group
Cengage Learning, Inc
Target group
Primary & secondary/elementary & high school
College/higher education
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
1620 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-534-16602-1 (9780534166021)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Critical thinking, problem solving and logic. Tools for problem solving: sets and numbers. Numeration systems. The system of integers and elementary number theory. Introduction to the rational numbers. From rational numbers to real numbers. Consumer mathematics. An introduction to probability theory. The uses and misuses of statistics. Informal geometry. Measurement and the metric system. Additional topics of geometry. Co-ordinate geometry and transformations. Algebra and geometry. An introduction to computers.