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A book a novice can understand - and benefit from.,
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This review is from: For All Practical Purposes: Mathematical Literacy in Today's World (Hardcover)
I was never a wiz at math or word problems and such. I was completely intimidated by the subject, even though I have a gift for numbers. But I have to say, this book made learning math and its universal concepts very easy and FUN to learn and apply to every-day needs. The class I took was one I will always remember as a rebirth for the hunger in learning - and this book played a large part of that.
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Bloated and expensive.,
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This review is from: For All Practical Purposes: Mathematical Literacy in Today's World (Hardcover)
I've taught from this book for 3 semesters. The math department at my school chose it, and I'm not entirely sure why. Granted, any "liberal arts math" text will likely be bad. The content is rather silly... it seems like the author(s) took topics from several areas (basic statistics, finance, basic probability, logic, etc) but didn't really stitch them together in any nice way. It's rare to see just a definition without several paragraphs of text to "motivate" or explain what's going on. I feel it's way too chatty and should cost a lot less.
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Horrific, Convoluted and Unhelpful,
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This review is from: For All Practical Purposes: Mathematical Literacy in Today's World (Hardcover)
I have used a lot of textbooks in my life, and many were pretty bad. This book is by far the worst textbook I have used in college thus far and should be avoided if possible.
It does a bad job of explaining even simple concepts such as those in graph theory and number theory, and once you get into more complex tasks - FORGET IT! Me and my classmates had to Google other explanations half the time because the book is so bad at explaining things. Additionally, the answers to problem questions were frequently (FREQUENTLY) incorrect (or missing, in some cases). There is no quality control in this book at all.
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