Now with all digital content in Macmillan Learning’s Achieve, For All Practical Purposes emphasizes the connections between contemporary mathematics and modern society. Long a foundational text in the development of the liberal arts mathematics course, its distinctive style introduces students to real math applications without simply listing equations and asking students to crunch numbers—practice is geared toward understanding what these equations do and what they can reveal. For All Practical Purposes seeks to engage those students who tend to be wary or disinterested in math courses and to show them both the usefulness of these math concepts and the beauty of math as applied in the world around us.

The new edition of For All Practical Purposes is available with Macmillan’s groundbreaking online platform Achieve. Achieve features tools and assessment meant to engage students before, during, and after class, while providing flexibility and rich analytics for instructors. Along with the fully accessible, interactive e-book, Achieve also contains videos and interactive activities, adaptive quizzing, active learning tools, and tutorial-style assessment from the text with hints, error-specific feedback, and fully worked solutions.

Features

Self Check and Skills Check exercises
Self Check concept review exercises placed in key spots throughout each chapter give students a chance to check their understanding as they go. Thirty Skills Check questions at the end of each chapter let students test their basic grasp of the chapter material before continuing on with the more challenging chapter exercises.

Spotlights
These brief articles allow students to explore unique real world applications, find out about key innovators in a variety of fields, and read about historic developments in mathematics.

Algebra Review Appendix
Offers reviews of basic concepts used in the text and includes straightforward examples, technology tips, and exercises.

New to This Edition

Now in Achieve
Macmillan’s new online learning tool Achieve features intuitive design, assessment, insights, and reporting built with the direct input of students, educators, and our learning science team.

Achieve for For All Practical Purposes features:

Learning Objectives tagged to all assessments within Achieve.
In-Class Activity Guides to facilitate active learning during class time, adapted from Extended Projects from the text.
Homework questions from the text contain coaching tools to teach as they assess, with hints, answer-specific feedback, and a fully worked solution.
LearningCurve adaptive quizzing.
Macmillan’s accessible, interactive e-book.
MathClips whiteboard problem-solving videos.
Interactive Applets, designed to help students master key concepts as they see mathematical and graphical relationships in real time.

In the Text
Streamlined chapters
A focus of this edition has been to update and revise the content across chapters, making the presentation more concise in some chapters, and revising the approach and structure in others. New examples have been added and others have been highlighted to be more visible.

Design
The text has moved to a larger trim size, allowing more dynamic presentation of figures, photos, and other features. Together with the extensive chapter revisions, the text is leaner and more manageable (and approximately 200 pages shorter than the previous edition).

Revamped Table of Content
The new edition includes some significant structural changes.

Part III: Voting and Social Choice has been reduced from four chapters to three, with the removal of Chapter 10: The Manipulability of Voting Systems and distribution of key topics in that chapter to other chapters in this part.
Part V: The Digital Revolution has been removed from the student text and is now available as a custom chapter.

Marwan Abu-Sawwa, University of North Florida (from Part I development review, 9/19): I love the textbook. The success rate for my students in the class where this textbook is being used is very high. I am positive that authors with the help of the reviewer’s feedback are going to have an excellent new edition that all instructors will be happy to adopt and use in their course. I am looking forward to using the new edition.

Bruce Corrigan-Salter, Wayne State University—Detroit (from Part II development review, 10/19): Interesting examples and connections to real life. Well broken down for better understanding.

Sally Groleau, Carthage College (from Part II development review, 10/19): I believe that this is a very good textbook. I appreciate the detailed explanations and the variety of homework-type problems (skills check, exercises, writing projects).

Dennis Evans, Concordia University (from Part V development review, 9/19): The writing is very good but what I was most impressed by was the variety of unexpected and interesting examples. If it is our objective with this course to reach out to students disillusioned by previous math experiences and show them that math can be interesting and beautiful, then these chapters do an excellent job in that regard.

Kyle Carter, University of West Georgia (from Part VI development review, 12/19): I really like the way this text is written, and I could pick and choose what/how deeply to cover depending on the group I have for that semester. You really made [the topic] real for the students. I feel that in particular, these examples are relevant and of interest to my students. Anytime you start a section with talk of student loans, the students want to know more because it impacts most of them directly.

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Part I   MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
Chapter 1      Urban Services
Chapter 2      Business Efficiency
Chapter 3      Planning and Scheduling
Chapter 4      Mathematics in Your Daily Life: Linear Programming
Part II   STATISTICS: THE SCIENCE OF DATA
Chapter 5      Exploring Data: Distributions
Chapter 6      Exploring Data: Relationships
Chapter 7      Data for Decisions
Chapter 8      Probability: The Mathematics of Chance
Part III VOTING AND SOCIAL CHOICE
Chapter 9      Social Choice
Chapter 10    Weighted Voting Systems
Chapter 11    From Primaries to Presidency
Part IV FAIRNESS AND GAME THEORY
Chapter 12    Fair Division
Chapter 13    Apportionment
Chapter 14    Game Theory: The Mathematics of Competition
Part V ON SIZE AND GROWTH
Chapter 15    Growth and Form
Chapter 16    Symmetry and Pattern
Chapter 17    Tilings
Part VI YOUR MONEY AND THE WORLD’S RESOURCES
Chapter 18    Money Over Time
Chapter 19    Loan Models
Chapter 20    The Economics of Resources

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