Quantitative Literacy: Thinking Between the Lines (3rd Edition) – Digital Update – eBook

With Quantitative Literacy: Thinking Between the Lines, 3rd Edition (PDF) you’ll be smarter about the math you use every day, making better decisions about money, voting and politics, health issues, and much more. You can download it now in a scanned PDF format, wihtout any restrictions!

Quantitative Literacy 3E aims to equip readers with the quantitative tools needed to critically analyze issues that arise in popular media and our everyday experiences. By employing contemporary real-world applications, we strive to impart essential skills that foster critical thinking, informed decision-making, and savvy consumption of quantitative information encountered daily. This objective shapes our topic selection and drives our use of various articles from popular media as illustrative examples.

Being a discerning reader and consumer hinges on the ability to think critically, as emphasized by the book’s subtitle, “Thinking Between the Lines.” For instance, data visualizations like graphs can often be deceptive—how can you identify such deceptions when they occur? Poll results usually come accompanied by a “margin of error,” but what does that entail? Similarly, financial institutions frequently reference terms like APR and APY. Understanding these concepts is crucial. Throughout this textbook, we highlight the importance of critical thinking, as seen in our exploration of how to graphically represent federal defense spending. Instead of merely defining logarithms through formulas, we connect them to practical applications, such as the decibel and Richter scales. Rather than only presenting graph theory, we illustrate its relevance to spell checkers and cutting-edge air traffic control technology. This “in context” approach permeates the entire book, ensuring that students can easily respond to the perennial question, “What is this useful for?” Our goal transcends mere success in a liberal arts math course; we aim to equip students with invaluable skills and knowledge they can apply throughout their lives as informed consumers of information. Includes bibliographical references and index..

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