Quantitative Literacy, Digital Update

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ISBN: 9781319244460

Thinking Between the Lines

by Bruce Crauder, Benny Evans, Jerry Johnson, Alan Noell

3rd Edition

Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company

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Print ISBN	9781319244460
eText ISBN	9781319454777
Publisher	W.H. Freeman & Company
Publishing Year	2022
Edition	3rd Edition
Language	English
Pages	744

Quantitative Literacy, Digital Update (3rd Edition) by Bruce Crauder, Benny Evans, Jerry Johnson, and Alan Noell is an academic textbook designed for student instruction. The volume focuses on enabling students to apply quantitative reasoning toward personal finance choices, voting and political decisions, and health matters.

The curriculum connects everyday mathematics to practical decision-making contexts. Key subjects encompassed within the work include quantitative literacy, growth analysis, personal finance management, political choice systems, and statistical evaluation.

The text organizes its material across nine structured chapters, emphasizing mathematical application to real-world analytical problems facing modern students.

Chapter 1: Critical Thinking
- • 1.1 Public Policy and Simpson’s Paradox: Is “Average” Always Average
- • 1.2 Logic and Informal Fallacies: Does That Argument Hold Water?
- • 1.3 Formal Logic and Truth Tables: Do Computers Think?
- • 1.4 Sets and Venn Diagrams: Pictorial Logic
- • 1.5 Critical Thinking and Number Sense: What Do These Figures Mean?
Chapter 2: Analysis of Growth
- • 2.1 Measurements of Growth: How Fast Is It Changing?
- • 2.2 Graphs: Picturing Growth
- • 2.3 Misleading Graphs: Should I Believe My Eyes?
Chapter 3: Linear and Exponential Change: Comparing Growth Rates
- • 3.1 Lines and Linear Growth: What Does A Constant Rate Mean?
- • 3.2 Exponential Growth and Decay: Constant Percentage Rates
- • 3.3 Logarithmic Phenomena: Compressed Scales
- • 3.4 Quadratics and Parabolas
Chapter 4: Personal Finance
- • 4.1 Saving Money: The Power of Compounding
- • 4.2 Borrowing: How Much Car Can You Afford?
- • 4.3 Saving for the Long Term: Build That Nest Egg
- • 4.4 Credit Cards: Paying Off Consumer Debt
- • 4.5 Inflation, Taxes, and Stocks: Managing Your Money
Chapter 5: Introduction to Probability
- • 5.1 Calculating Probabilities: How Likely Is It?
- • 5.2 Medical Testing and Conditional Probability: Ill or Not?
- • 5.3 Counting and Theoretical Probabilities: How Many?
- • 5.4 More Ways of Counting: Permuting and Combining
- • 5.5 Expected Value and the Law of Large Numbers: Don’t Bet on It
Chapter 6: Statistics
- • 6.1 Data Summary and Presentation: Boiling Down the Numbers
- • 6.2 The Normal Distribution: Why the Bell Curve?
- • 6.3 The Statistics of Polling: Can We Believe the Polls?
- • 6.4 Statistical Inference and Clinical Trials: Effective Drugs?
Chapter 7: Graph Theory
- • 7.1 Modeling With Graphs and Finding Euler Circuits
- • 7.2 Hamilton Circuits and Traveling Salesmen: Efficient Routes
- • 7.3 Trees: Viral E-mails and Spell Checkers
Chapter 8: Voting and Social Choice
- • 8.1 Measuring Voting Power: Does My Vote Count?
- • 8.2 Voting Systems: How Do We Choose a Winner?
- • 8.3 Fair Division: What Is a Fair Share?
- • 8.4 Apportionment: Am I Represented?
Chapter 9: Geometry
- • 9.1 Perimeter, Area, and Volume: How Do I Measure?
- • 9.2 Proportionality and Similarity: Changing the Scale
- • 9.3 Symmetries and Tilings: Form and Patterns