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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 energy alternatives to fossil fuels? What could you do with a billion dollars? 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 Math for Life , award-winning author Jeffrey Bennett 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. No matter what your own l

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

Author

Jeffrey O. Bennett

Publisher

Big Kid Science

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781937548360

Category

education

Subjects

Mathematics, Fiction, Philosophy

Rating

3.89 / 5 (29 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14