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005			20150113132300.0
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020			_a9781937548360
020			_a1937548368
040			_aWAY _beng _cWAY _dOCLCO _dOCLCQ _dOCO _dUBC _dXII _dOCLCO _dOCLCF _dHSA
050	1	4	_aQA93 _b.B445 2014
082		4	_a510
100	1		_aBennett, Jeffrey O. _98585
245	1	0	_aMath for life : crucial ideas you didn't learn in school
250			_aUpdated edition.
260			_aBoulder, Colorado : _bBig Kid Science, _c2014.
300			_a211 pages ; _c24 cm
500			_aHow 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	_aMathematics _vPopular works. _98586
655		7	_aPopular Works. _2fast _98587
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