Mathematics All Around (2-download)

For courses in liberal arts mathematics.

Given their widely varying backgrounds, students in Liberal Arts Math often enter the course with math anxiety. Pirnot’s Mathematics All Around offers the supportive and patient writing style that students need to overcome that apprehension, developing useful skills through realistic applications that can be seen in the world around them. Relevant and approachable, the author’s tone resembles the support students would receive during an instructor’s office hours. The author emphasizes a problem-solving approach, reinforcing problem-solving methods and how to apply them throughout the text. The 6th Edition keeps students engaged with updated real-world applications, while also providing more support as they learn with new measurable objectives, revised exercise sets, significant enhancements to each chapter, as well as a new student Workbook.

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Skill Review Topics

Objective: Percent conversions

Objective: Translate algebraic expressions to word phrases and word phrases to algebraic expressions
Objective: Evaluating an algebraic expression

Objective: Evaluate a formula

1.1 Problem Solving

1.2 Inductive and Deductive Reasoning

1.3 Estimation

Skill Review Topics

Objective: Exponents and order of operations

Objective: Compare real numbers

Objective: Solve linear equations using the addition property

2.1 The Language of Sets

2.2 Comparing Sets

2.3 Set Operations

2.4 Survey Problems

2.5 Looking Deeper: Infinite Sets

3.1 Statements, Connectives, and Quantifiers

3.2 Truth Tables

3.3 The Conditional and Biconditional

3.4 Verifying Arguments

3.5 Using Euler Diagrams to Verify Syllogisms

3.6 Looking Deeper: Fuzzy Logic

4.1 Graphs, Puzzles, and Map Coloring

4.2 The Traveling Salesperson Problem

4.3 Directed Graphs

4.4 Looking Deeper: Scheduling Projects Using PERT

Skill Review Topics

Objective: Decimals

Objective: Add real numbers

Objective: Subtract real numbers

Objective: Multiply real numbers

Objective: Divide real numbers

5.1 The Evolution of Numeration Systems

5.2 Place Value Systems

5.3 Calculating in Other Bases

5.4 Looking Deeper: Modular Systems

Skill Review Topics

Objective: Square roots

Objective: Solve applied problems involving algebraic expressions or formulas

6.1 Number Theory

6.2 The Integers

6.3 The Rational Numbers

6.4 The Real Number System

6.5 Exponents and Scientific Notation

6.6 Looking Deeper: Sequences

Skill Review Topics

Objective: Solve a linear inequality using the addition and multiplication properties of inequalities

Objective: Find the slope of a line that passes through two given points

Objective: Determine whether the slope of a given line is positive, negative, zero, or undefined

Objective: Solve a proportion

Objective: Solve quadratic equations by using the square root property

7.1 Linear Equations

7.2 Modeling with Linear Equations

7.3 Modeling with Quadratic Equations

7.4 Exponential Equations and Growth

7.5 Proportions and Variation

7.6 Modeling with Systems of Linear Equations and Inequalities

7.7 Looking Deeper: Dynamical Systems

Skill Review Topics

Objective: Solve linear equations using the multiplication property

Objective: Evaluate exponential functions

Objective: Write equivalent exponential and logarithmic equations

Objective: Evaluate logarithms

Objective: Solve logarithmic equations

8.1 Percents, Taxes, and Inflation

8.2 Interests

8.3 Consumer Loans

8.4 Annuities

8.5 Amortized Loans

8.6 Looking Deeper: Annual Percentage Rate

9.1 Lines, Angles, and Circles

9.2 Polygons

9.3 Perimeter and Area

9.4 Volume and Surface Area

9.5 The Metric System and Dimensional Analysis

9.6 Geometric Symmetry and Tessellations

9.7 Looking Deeper: Fractals

10.1 Understanding Apportionment

10.2 The Huntington−Hill Apportionment Principle

10.3 Other Paradoxes and Apportionment Methods

10.4 Looking Deeper: Fair Division

11.1 Voting Methods

11.2 Defects in Voting Methods

11.3 Weighted Voting Systems

11.4 Looking Deeper: The Shapley-Shubik Index

Skill Review Topics

Objective: Fractions

12.1 Introduction to Counting Methods

12.2 The Fundamental Counting Principle

12.3 Permutations and Combinations

12.4 Looking Deeper: Counting and Gambling

Skill Review Topics

Objective: Solve a linear equation using both the addition and multiplication properties

13.1 The Basics of Probability Theory

13.2 Complements and Union of Events

13.3 Conditional Probability and Intersections of Events

13.4 Expected Value

13.5 Looking Deeper: Binomial Experiments

Skill Review Topics

Objective: Find the opposite and absolute value of real numbers

Objective: Identify and plot points on a coordinate plane

Objective: Identify the slope and y-intercept of an equation written in slope-intercept form

Objective: Graph a line using its slope and y-intercept

14.1 Organizing and Visualizing Data

14.2 Measures of Central Tendency

14.3 Measures of Dispersion

14.4 The Normal Distribution

14.5 Looking Deeper: Linear Correlation

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