MGF 1107 - Mathematics for Liberal Arts II
 

Math Is Everywhere! Explore and Discover It! (Fourth Edition)- Chapters 1 & 2  

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SPC campus bookstores at St. Pete/Gibbs, Clearwater and Tarpon Springs will have copies of the course package for Math Is Everywhere! Explore and Discover It! (Fourth Edition), available at the beginning of the semester.  The course package may also be ordered online from the SPC Online Bookstore at:  http://www.spcollege.edu/textbooks/  

If you would like to purchase your copy of the course package 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.

The eBook course package will also be available for purchase directly from the publisher from within our ANGEL course.

Required course package (includes textbook and riddle booklet):

Math Is Everywhere! Explore and Discover It!--Fourth Edition--James J. Rutledge
Riddles for Fun and Profit: The Heart of Mathematical Thinking--James J. Rutledge

                Pearson
Custom Publishing, ©2010. 

Note:  Both of these items are packaged together as a course package with a single ISBN as noted below.

There are two course package format options; you may choose either option as your required textbook package:

  1. Print version with eBook access--Math Is Everywhere! Pk St. Pete College Fall 2010:  Course package ISBN: 978-0-5587-3895-2. 

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  2. eBook version--Math Is Everywhere! (Access Card for eBook):  Course package ISBN: 0-5588-0724-0. 
     
    • Required Classroom Companion for eBook users who enroll in on-campus course sections:  ISBN: 0-5588-3552-X. 

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!

(Fourth Edition)

Table of Contents

Introduction and Welcome

    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