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Math for Life: Crucial Ideas You Didn't Learn in School

Jeffrey Bennet
Publisher: 
Big Kid Science
Publication Date: 
2013
Number of Pages: 
216
Format: 
Hardcover
Edition: 
Updated
Price: 
25.00
ISBN: 
9781937548360
Category: 
General
[Reviewed by
Fernando Q. Gouvêa
, on
11/19/2013
]

See our review of the first edition. Aside from updating some of the data (such as the tax tables), the main change is the new publisher.

Preface
Chapter 1 (Don’t be) “bad at math”
Chapter 2 Thinking with numbers
Chapter 3 Statistical thinking
Chapter 4 Managing your money
Chapter 5 Understanding taxes
Chapter 6 The U.S. deficit and debt
Chapter 7 Energy math
Chapter 8 The math of political polarization
Chapter 9 The mathematics of growth
Epilogue Getting “good at math”