What the Numbers Say: A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World

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What the Numbers Say: A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World
by Derrick Niederman, David Boyum
from Broadway

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• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Entertaining Read on an Important Topic
  "What the Numbers Say" offers readers an engaging overview of the importance of mathematics and numerical literacy in today's increasingly complex and technologically advanced world.
  Utilizing a light and readable style, Niederman and Boyum make a convincing case for the need for more mathematical skills and knowledge for everyone. The mathematics covered in this book are not advanced but are important.
  The book is subtitled "A Field Guide to Mastering our Numerical World"...it fits that bill and... more info

• The problems with numbers written at a level where those with the problems can understand them
  This is an outstanding book, describing in detail, yet in layman's terms, many of the problems regarding the public's understanding of mathematics. Mathematical reality is what it is; hunches and intuition are just that, sometimes true, which is what is fondly and emphatically remembered, but most often false and conveniently forgotten. The authors discuss topics such as:
  *) What mathematics should be taught in the public schools.
  *) How mathematics should be taught in the public schools. more info

• All my life I have been misusing the numbers
  In a way, I feel very frustrated with this wonderful book, it remainded me when my father recommended me the 7 Habits of Covey and told me " Its sad I found this at 60 and not a your age"... well, its sad to be 42, a mechanical engineer and someone who studies math as a hobby to suddenly realize that I have been using numbers without a guide to their context..
  All I can say that this should be required education material at all levels of schooling..

• Excellent. Why did it take me so long to read it?
  For some reason I purchased this book, started reading it, and got side tracked for about a year. At the time that I put it aside I guess it hadden't made a big impact on me to the point that when I picked it up again last week I wasn;t expecting much. How worng i was, I now have to go back and re-read the beginning. Chapters 4 through 8 are some of the best writings I have read on numerical thinking, probability and staistics in a long time. The last chapter is outside of my area of expertise, but i... more info

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