A Mathematical View of Our World

Harness the power of mathematics in school and your future career with A MATHEMATICAL VIEW OF OUR WORLD by Cengage Learning. This liberal arts textbook helps you see the beauty and power of mathematics as it is applied to the world around you. You will recognize the connections, patterns, and significance of the mathematics you study, and see that mathematics has a meaningful place in your life. Includes CD-Rom. CHAPTERS: 1: Numbers in Our Lives; 2: Shapes in our Lives; 3: Voting and Elections; 4: Fair Division; 5: Appointment; 6: Routes and Networks; 7: Scheduling; 8: Descriptive Statistics - Data and Patterns; 9: Collecting and Interpreting Data; 10: Probability; 11: Inferential Statistics; 12: Growth and Decay; 13: Consumer Mathematics - Buying and Saving