MGF 1107 - Mathematics for Liberal Arts II
SPC campus bookstores at St. Pete/Gibbs, Clearwater and Tarpon Springs will have copies of Math Is Everywhere! Explore and Discover It! (Third Edition), Course PAK ISBN 978-0-7575-5384-4, available at the beginning of the semester.
Note: Required course PAK includes textbook and riddle booklet:
Math Is Everywhere! Explore and Discover It!--Third Edition--James J. Rutledge
Riddles for Fun and Profit: The Heart of Mathematical Thinking--James J. Rutledge
Kendall Hunt Publishing, ©2008. Course PAK ISBN: 978-0-7575-5384-4Note: Both of these items are packaged together as a shrink-wrapped course PAK with the single ISBN listed above.
If you would like to purchase your copy through the Seminole campus bookstore, please ask the Seminole bookstore staff to have a copy shipped there for you; it may take an extra day or two to arrive due to the intercampus mail system schedule.
In the meantime, for the benefit of those students who may experience financial aid delays, I am making the first several sections of Math Is Everywhere! available via the Adobe .pdf documents below (click on the underlined links to access the documents). If you don't already have the free Adobe Reader software installed on your computer, you may download it at no cost from www.adobe.com (click on the link that says "Get Adobe Reader").
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Math Is Everywhere! Explore and Discover It!
(Third Edition)
To Know the End from the Beginning...
Chapter 1: Reasoning and Resources: Tools for Life
1.0 Introduction and Objectives
1.1 Analytical Reasoning: A Tool for Life
Project: Pascal's Famous Triangle
1.2 Math Classics and Applied Reasoning
Project: Guards and Prisoners
Project: Cross-number Puzzle
1.3 Resources for the Present and for the Future
Project: MERLOT and You
Chapter 2: Patterns and Reasoning: Fun with Math!
2.0 Introduction and Objectives
2.1 Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
Project: A Riddling Good Time
2.2 Pattern Recognition: Searching for Connections
Project: The Curious Date: 7-14-98
Project: Another Curious Date: 10-1-01