This Second Edition of Quantitative Reasoning empowers students to use quantitative information to make responsible financial, environmental, and health-related decisions in their daily lives. Students develop their critical thinking skills through numerous examples, explorations, and activities featuring real data. Students use a variety of analysis throughout the text: inductive and deductive reasoning; tabular, symbolic, verbal, and graphical forms of functions and relations; graphs and pictorial representations of data; interpretations of probabilistic data; surveys and statistical…mehr
This Second Edition of Quantitative Reasoning empowers students to use quantitative information to make responsible financial, environmental, and health-related decisions in their daily lives. Students develop their critical thinking skills through numerous examples, explorations, and activities featuring real data. Students use a variety of analysis throughout the text: inductive and deductive reasoning; tabular, symbolic, verbal, and graphical forms of functions and relations; graphs and pictorial representations of data; interpretations of probabilistic data; surveys and statistical studies. Sevilla and Somer's Quantitative Reasoning, 2nd Edition comes available with WileyPLUS, a research-based, online environment for effective teaching and learning, which takes the guesswork out of studying by providing them with a clear roadmap: what to do, how to do it, and whether they did it right. WileyPLUS sold separately from text.
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