Common sense mathematics (math text book)

MAA PRESS TEXTBOOKS
The authors present a remarkable collection of problem situations gleaned from public media and supplemented by topics of personal finance. The problems are not only central to students' everyday lives but also provide a venue for continuing learning beyond a course and beyond school. Based on years of teaching quantitative reasoning, the book offers a clear model for such a course for the inexperienced teacher as well as opportunities for localizing and extending the material for the more experienced teacher. -Bernard L. Madison, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Ten years from now, what do you want or expect your students to remember from your course? We realized that in ten years, what matters will be how students approach a problem using the tools they carry with them-common sense and common knowledge-not the particular mathematics we chose for the curriculum. Using our text, students work regularly with real data in moderately complex everyday contexts, usin