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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.

This edition includes new features to help students succeed. This textbook is available on LaunchPad, which combines an interactive ebook with multimedia content and assessment tools, including LearningCurve adaptive quizzing.  See ‘Instructor Resources’ and ‘Student Resources’ for further information.



Table of Contents:
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.

About the Author :
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. 

Review :
Marwan Abu-Sawwa, University of North Florida (from Part I development review, 9/19): I love the textbook. The success rate for my students in the class where this textbook is being used is very high. I am positive that authors with the help of the reviewer’s feedback are going to have an excellent new edition that all instructors will be happy to adopt and use in their course. I am looking forward to using the new edition.   Bruce Corrigan-Salter, Wayne State University—Detroit (from Part II development review, 10/19): Interesting examples and connections to real life. Well broken down for better understanding.   Sally Groleau, Carthage College (from Part II development review, 10/19): I believe that this is a very good textbook. I appreciate the detailed explanations and the variety of homework-type problems (skills check, exercises, writing projects).   Dennis Evans, Concordia University (from Part V development review, 9/19): The writing is very good but what I was most impressed by was the variety of unexpected and interesting examples. If it is our objective with this course to reach out to students disillusioned by previous math experiences and show them that math can be interesting and beautiful, then these chapters do an excellent job in that regard.   Kyle Carter, University of West Georgia (from Part VI development review, 12/19): I really like the way this text is written, and I could pick and choose what/how deeply to cover depending on the group I have for that semester. You really made [the topic] real for the students. I feel that in particular, these examples are relevant and of interest to my students.  Anytime you start a section with talk of student loans, the students want to know more because it impacts most of them directly.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781464124730
  • Publisher: MacMillan Learning
  • Publisher Imprint: W.H.Freeman & Co Ltd
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Mathematical Literacy in Today's World
  • ISBN-10: 1464124736
  • Publisher Date: 24 Oct 2015
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 1104
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 155 mm


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