Reviews for Outlines & Highlights for Basic Mathematics by Prior, ISBN: 9780321213792

The average rating for Outlines & Highlights for Basic Mathematics by Prior, ISBN: 9780321213792 based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-07-30 00:00:00 Tim Amandio I read this to decide whether it would be useful in teaching math to classes of home school high school students and to prepare them to take the CLEP in general math to get college credit. To my astonishment, I loved it! Most of the math books I have used or taught from are so dull but this is actually exciting. I didn't actually begin it today as Goodreads insists. I just posted today so to write the review. This is THE book to use with students who are math phobic but who still need arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and statistics/probability at the college freshman level. It is written very clearly with interesting examples that explain concepts well and there is a lot of practice with interesting problems that often are thought provoking. I love, love, love the first two chapters because they are an introduction to formal logic which I think everyone should study. All of the chapters relate the math in them to real life applications and uses. For example, chapter 3 has the student studies the use and abuse of percentages and how numbers can deceive in polygraphs, mammograms and more. Chapter 4 heads into managing money, taxes, loan payments, credit card use and abuse, student loans, and more while studying some algebra. Chapters 5, 6, and 7 cover statistics and probability including the use of Excel and covering how statistics can be deceiving, the probability of winning the lottery, and how the auto companies have gone bankrupt. Chapters 8, 9, and 10 cover linear versus exponential growth, doubling, graphing functions, algebra with logarithms, and geometry while studying the towers of Hanoi, spy satellites, and bald eagle recovery. Chapter 11 teaches math through music and the final chapter, chapter 12, includes math through politics and whether the majority rules, the theory of voting, apportionment of the House of Representatives, and dividing the political pie. As you can see, by studying math as it applies to everything from determining the magnitude of spending on ice cream in the USA to determining the likelihood that flood will strike a city in two consecutive years by studying its 100 year flood record, this is math made interesting.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-01-29 00:00:00 Alise Mcduffie textbook for fall 2009