The 2nd Edition of Sevilla's Quantitative Reasoning: Tools for Today's Informed Citizen builds upon the 1st issue with more ways to help readers handle complex, real-life, every-day situations such as understanding credit card offers, balancing checkbooks, and computing restaurant tips. It provides more ways for connecting mathematics with applications in the real world as well as hands-on activities and explorations. It focuses on more and enhanced ways to apply quantitative reasoning skills to make informed decisions in daily lives.
The 2nd Edition of Sevilla's Quantitative Reasoning: Tools for Today's Informed Citizen builds upon the 1st issue with more ways to help readers handle complex, real-life, every-day situations such as understanding credit card offers, balancing checkbooks, and computing restaurant tips. It provides more ways for connecting mathematics with applications in the real world as well as hands-on activities and explorations. It focuses on more and enhanced ways to apply quantitative reasoning skills to make informed decisions in daily lives.
Alicia Sevilla has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Cornell University and is Professor of Mathematics at Moravian College, where she has taught for over 20 years. She participated in the two FIPSE projects that produced the COMPANION TO CALCULUS and mentored other institutions to adopt the integrated approach. She recently served as Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and was co-director of a National Science Foundation grant to develop and implement a quantitative reasoning course. She is an active member of the Mathematical Association of America, and serves as Coordinat.
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Chapter 1: Organizing Information Pictorially Using Charts and Graphs
Chapter 2: Bivariate Data
Chapter 3: Graphs of Functions
Chapter 4: Multiple Variable Functions
Chapter 5: Proportional, Linear, and Piecewise Linear Functions
Chapter 6: Modeling with Linear and Exponential Functions
Chapter 7: Logarithms and Scientific Notation
Chapter 8: Indexes and Ratings
Chapter 9: Personal Finance
Chapter 10: Introduction to Problem Solving
Chapter 11: Decision Making
Chapter 12: Inductive Reasoning
Chapter 13: Deductive Reasoning
Chapter 14: Apportionment
Chapter 15: More on Problem Solving
Chapter 16: Average and Five-Number Summary
Chapter 17: Standard Deviation, z-Score, and Normal Distributions
