Common Sense Mathematics - Couverture rigide

Bolker, Ethan D.; Mast, Maura B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1939512107 ISBN 13 : 9781939512109

Editeur : The Mathematical Association of America, 2016

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Ten years from now, what do you want or expect your students to remember from your course? Rather than the particular mathematics chosen for the curriculum, what really matters will be how students approach a problem using the tools they carry with them – common sense and common knowledge. Using this text, students will work regularly with real data in moderately complex everyday contexts, using mathematics as a tool and common sense as a guide. The focus is on problems which arise from the news of the day and the topics that will matter to students, such as credit card debt, loans, tax and bills. By augmenting common sense and some mathematics with instruction on critical use of spreadsheets and the internet, students are provided with tools they can take with them beyond the classroom and into later life.

Biographie de l'auteur

Ethan D. Bolker completed his PhD in mathematics at Harvard University, after which he became an instructor at Princeton University and an Assistant and Associate Professor at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania. In 1972, he became a Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He retired in 2014. While at the University of Massachusetts, he chaired the joint Mathematics and Computer Science Departments for twelve years. He earned the Chancellor's Award for Scholarship in 1979 and for Teaching in 2003.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The Mathematical Association of America
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1939512107
• ISBN 13: 9781939512109
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 320