25 Real Life Math Investigations That Will Astound Teachers and Students
by Edward Zaccaro Author
Not a math textbook. Supplemental in nature; provides student real-world examples in which they can use math to discover deception in advertising, errors in design, politics. (From Amazon): Students typically are not given the opportunity to see the wondrous side of mathematics because it is often taught as all scales and no music. Help your students: 1) Discover the power of mathematics as the danger of short-term loans is exposed in a dramatic fashion. 2) Investigate math mistakes in the news media and their potential consequences. 3) Watch as mathematics shows the futility of depending on corn-based ethanol to lower our dependence on oil imports. 4) Learn the surprising answer to how much money a hybrid car will save its owner because of reduced gasoline usage. These and other fascinating math investigations will allow students to see the power of mathematics as it cuts through deception and flawed thinking to reveal the truth.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9780967991580
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 25
- Pages
- 394
- Suggested Grades
- 9th - 12th
- Publisher
- Hickory Grove Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Copyright
- 2007
- Written
- 2007
Chapters
- 1 The Nightmare of Payday Loans
- 2 Corn-based Ethanol is the Answer to our Dependence on Foreign Oil - Or Is It?
- 3 Media-Math Mistakes (Part 1)
- 4 Media-Math Mistakes (Part 2
- 5 Media-Math Mistakes (Part 3)
- 6 The Perplexing Birthday Paradox
- 7 Pilots Make Math Mistakes
- 8 Be Careful When You "Rent to Own"
- 9 Lawmakers Make Math Mistakes
- 10 The Eccentric Mathematician and the Lock That Would Not Open
- 11 The Power of Algebraic Thinking
- 12 The Amazing Googolplex Challenge
- 13 The Strange Medical Test
- 14 Sometimes Probabilities Can Fool You
- 15 Can I Afford to Buy That House?
- 16 Why did the Bank Take My House? The Mathematics Behind the Sub-Prime Nightmare
- 17 The True Story of Teenage Drivers
- 18 Intriguing Math and Science Questions
- 19 How People Lie With Statistics
- 20 The Power of Interest Rates and Money
- 21 Help the Rats Escape
- 22 Trigonometry for Those Who Never Understood It
- 23 The Mathematics Hidden Within Music
- 24 Mathematics and Scuba Diving
- 25 Prices Were Really Cheap When My Parents Were Young! Or Were They?
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