For All Practical Purposes
Eleventh Edition ©2022 COMAP Formats: Achieve, E-book, Print
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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.
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COMAP
The Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP)—is an award-winning non-profit organization whose mission is to improve mathematics education for students of all ages. Since 1980, COMAP has worked with teachers, students, and business people to create learning environments where mathematics is used to investigate and model real issues in our world.
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Table of Contents
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
Product Updates
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.
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COMAP
The Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications (COMAP)—is an award-winning non-profit organization whose mission is to improve mathematics education for students of all ages. Since 1980, COMAP has worked with teachers, students, and business people to create learning environments where mathematics is used to investigate and model real issues in our world.
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Table of Contents
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
Product Updates
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.
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For All Practical Purposes
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.
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