Description
Transform students into informed consumers of the quantitative information they read, see, and hear every day.
With Quantitative Literacy: Thinking Between the Lines, you’ll be smarter about the math you use every day, making better decisions about money, voting and politics, health issues, and much more. 1 Critical Thinking
1.1 Public Policy and Simpson’s Paradox: Is “Average” Always Average1.2 Logic and Informal Fallacies: Does That Argument Hold Water?1.3 Formal Logic and Truth Tables: Do Computers Think?1.4 Sets and Venn Diagrams: Pictorial Logic1.5 Critical Thinking and Number Sense: What Do These Figures Mean?2 Analysis of Growth
2.1 Measurements of Growth: How Fast Is It Changing?2.2 Graphs: Picturing Growth2.3 Misleading Graphs: Should I Believe My Eyes?3 Linear and Exponential Change: Comparing Growth Rates3.1 Lines and Linear Growth: What Does A Constant Rate Mean?3.2 Exponential Growth and Decay: Constant Percentage Rates3.3 Logarithmic Phenomena: Compressed Scales3.4 Quadratics and Parabolas4 Personal Finance4.1 Saving Money: The Power of Compounding4.2 Borrowing: How Much Car Can You Afford?4.3 Saving for the Long Term: Build That Nest Egg4.4 Credit Cards: Paying Off Consumer Debt4.5 Inflation, Taxes, and Stocks: Managing Your Money5 Introduction to Probability5.1 Calculating Probabilities: How Likely Is It?5.2 Medical Testing and Conditional Probability: Ill or Not?5.3 Counting and Theoretical Probabilities: How Many?5.4 More Ways of Counting: Permuting and Combining5.5 Expected Value and the Law of Large Numbers: Don’t Bet on It6 Statistics6.1 Data Summary and Presentation: Boiling Down the Numbers6.2 The Normal Distribution: Why the Bell Curve?6.3 The Statistics of Polling: Can We Believe the Polls?6.4 Statistical Inference and Clinical Trials: Effective Drugs?7 Graph Theory7.1 Modeling With Graphs and Finding Euler Circuits7.2 Hamilton Circuits and Traveling Salesmen: Efficient Routes7.3 Trees: Viral E-mails and Spell Checkers8 Voting and Social Choice8.1 Measuring Voting Power: Does My Vote Count?8.2 Voting Systems: How Do We Choose a Winner?8.3 Fair Division: What Is a Fair Share?8.4 Apportionment: Am I Represented?9 Geometry9.1 Perimeter, Area, and Volume: How Do I Measure?9.2 Proportionality and Similarity: Changing the Scale9.3 Symmetries and Tilings: Form and PatternsAppendicesAppendix 1 Unit ConversionAppendix 2 Exponents and Scientific NotationAppendix 3 Calculators, Parentheses, and RoundingAppendix 4 Basic MathAppendix 5 Problem SolvingAnswersCreditsIndex
