This premiere text serves the newly emerging Quantitative Reasoning/Literacy Course, as well as an alternative approach for Liberal Arts/Survey Math. It provides a legitimate alternative for non-quantitative majors, helping to reduce math anxiety and emphasizing practicality. It's the mathematics you need for college, career, and life.

Click here to see the powerpoint slides for my talk: General Education Mathematics. Are you teaching students what they really need?

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Praise for Using and Understanding Mathematics:

"This textbook's practical focus and arsenal of interesting problems should put an end to the piteous question, 'but whyyyyy do we have to learn tihs stuff?,' once and for all." --Book News

"I bought this book over a year ago for a class I had to take. I would have to say that this book is the best learning tool I have been able to use in understanding mathematics. I was diagnosed with a math disability. This book has helped me with this disability. I am able to understand concepts and apply my understanding of those concepts. It has given me a self confidence I didn't think I would ever have. I have tried other texts and found them to be either to general in thier knowledge or poor in their use of the english language. I found this book to be very descriptive and helps the student to paint a picture of what problems they may face in the world of mathematics. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has had a hard time with spatial ability. The detailed step by step process is wonderful. It covers an array of subjects. I still use it to help me through other classes. I have found it to be the only book detailed enough to teach me properly. It is the best college book I have ever had to buy. I really have gotten my dollars worth out of it." -- Student review posted on Amazon.com