Quantitative Reasoning: Tools for Today’s Informed Citizen, 2nd Edition
By Alicia Sevilla, Kay Somers
Quantitative Reasoning: Tools for Today’s Informed Citizen 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 course: 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
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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.
1. Organizing Information Pictorially Using Charts and Graphs
2. Bivariate Data
3. Graphs of Functions
4. Multiple Variable Functions
5. Proportional, Linear, and Piecewise Linear Functions
6. Modeling with Linear and Exponential Functions
7. Logarithms and Scientific Notation
8. Indexes and Ratings
9. Personal Finance
10. Introduction to Problem Solving
11. Decision Making
12. Inductive Reasoning
13. Deductive Reasoning
14. Apportionment
15. More on Problem Solving
16. Average and Five-Number Summary
17. Standard Deviation, z-Score, and Normal Distributions
18. Basics of Probability
19. Conditional Probability and Tables
20. Sampling and Surveys
21. More on Decision Making