Math for life : crucial ideas you didn't learn in school (Record no. 52403)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20150113132300.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 131127r20142012cou 000 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781937548360 |
| International Standard Book Number | 1937548368 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | WAY |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Transcribing agency | WAY |
| Modifying agency | OCLCO |
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| -- | UBC |
| -- | XII |
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| -- | OCLCF |
| -- | HSA |
| 050 14 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QA93 |
| Item number | .B445 2014 |
| 082 #4 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 510 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bennett, Jeffrey O. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 8585 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Math for life : crucial ideas you didn't learn in school |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | Updated edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Boulder, Colorado : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Big Kid Science, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2014. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 211 pages ; |
| Dimensions | 24 cm |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | How can we solve the national debt crisis? Should you or your child take on a student loan? Is it safe to talk on a cell phone while driving? Are there viable alternatives to fossil fuels? Could simple policy changes reduce political polarization? These questions may all seem very different, but they share two things in common. First, they are all questions with important implications for either personal success or our success as a nation. Second, they all concern topics that we can fully understand only with the aid of clear quantitative or mathematical thinking. In other words, they are topics for which we need math for life, a kind of math that looks quite different from most of the math that we learn in school, but that is just as (and often more) important. In this book the author simply and clearly explains the key ideas of quantitative reasoning and applies them to all the above questions and many more. He also uses these questions to analyze our current education system, identifying both shortfalls in the teaching of mathematics and solutions for our educational future. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Mathematics |
| Form subdivision | Popular works. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 8586 |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Popular Works. |
| Source of term | fast |
| 9 (RLIN) | 8587 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | NF |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Barcode Number | Koha item type |
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| Nonfiction | Chamberlin Free Public Library | Chamberlin Free Public Library | Nonfiction | 01/13/2015 | Toadstool. | 510.2 BEN | 34480000515746 | NF |