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When Are We Ever Going to Use This Stuff? College Mathematics for the Liberal Arts Major is a college level mathematics textbook designed with liberal arts majors in mind. This text uses practical, entertaining topics presented in a readable, student-centered style to teach mathematics concepts and skills for the non-STEM major. While emphasizing practical application over symbolic manipulation, students learn where, when, why, and how the math they learn will help them in their lives. Specific topics include consumer math, apportionment, statistics, probability, set theory, geometry, right triangle trigonometry, and voting techniques, with the history of mathematics as a consistent motivational thread throughout. Concepts are taught within familiar contexts with a focus on the development of problem-solving skills. The eighth edition features a few new historical topics and additional readings in each chapter, updated examples to make the material more relevant, and ""From a Different Point of View"" sections throughout to emphasize alternative perspectives. To help students and teachers cope with the emerging national trend of reducing or eliminating prerequisite courses, a significant number of review passages have been woven throughout the material.

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Student reviews for the book and Active Learning components: We actually learn how to apply this math, when this math will be applied, and why it is used in real life. Therefore, instead of just memorizing formulas we actually know what each variable in a formula means and why it is arranged a certain way. The book is written in an easy to understand language and is filled with helpful examples. As someone who is not very good at math, having so many opportunities to practice examples really helped me understand the material. This is the best textbook I've ever used. I appreciated the easy and informal language used to explain things in a way that was very easy to understand. Teaches you about concepts related to life. The instructional videos were an awesome way to learn. As a visual learner, I enjoyed the ability to go back and re-watch the videos if I felt like I wasn't grasping the concept of a particular item well enough. The textbook is clearly written and helpful, the online exercises reinforce what's learned, and it's presented in a way that makes it accessible and applicable to the 'real world.' I learned something from EVERY exercise in this class. The study tools definitely made a difference for me. I am a hands-on learner, so I was initially worried about taking online classes but the videos, PowerPoints, and games gave better understanding to me after I read the book. The videos were great. The book helped reinforce all the information and the games were really fun and a great learning tool. I really liked the Check Yourself games! Those were extremely helpful and fun in practicing different math problems. The interactive games actually make the math easy to learn. The book was amazing in that all the material was so easy to understand. It's as if they took a survey of all the things people wished were different about their previous math books and applied them to this book. The video lessons were clearly explained and made the material accessible. Having review games available before each quiz provided a good way to review relevant information and let me know what sort of things to expect on the quizzes. Math is a tough subject for me, and I found all of the learning material to be extremely useful in my learning process.

Student reviews for the book and Active Learning components: ""We actually learn how to apply this math, when this math will be applied, and why it is used in real life. Therefore, instead of just memorizing formulas we actually know what each variable in a formula means and why it is arranged a certain way."" ""The book is written in an easy to understand language and is filled with helpful examples. As someone who is not very good at math, having so many opportunities to practice examples really helped me understand the material."" ""This is the best textbook I've ever used. I appreciated the easy and informal language used to explain things in a way that was very easy to understand. Teaches you about concepts related to life."" ""The instructional videos were an awesome way to learn. As a visual learner, I enjoyed the ability to go back and re-watch the videos if I felt like I wasn't grasping the concept of a particular item well enough."" ""The textbook is clearly written and helpful, the online exercises reinforce what's learned, and it's presented in a way that makes it accessible and applicable to the 'real world.' I learned something from EVERY exercise in this class."" ""The study tools definitely made a difference for me. I am a hands-on learner, so I was initially worried about taking online classes but the videos, PowerPoints, and games gave better understanding to me after I read the book."" ""The videos were great. The book helped reinforce all the information and the games were really fun and a great learning tool."" ""I really liked the Check Yourself games! Those were extremely helpful and fun in practicing different math problems."" ""The interactive games actually make the math easy to learn."" ""The book was amazing in that all the material was so easy to understand. It's as if they took a survey of all the things people wished were different about their previous math books and applied them to this book."" ""The video lessons were clearly explained and made the material accessible. Having review games available before each quiz provided a good way to review relevant information and let me know what sort of things to expect on the quizzes."" ""Math is a tough subject for me, and I found all of the learning material to be extremely useful in my learning process.

"Student reviews for the book and Active Learning components: ""We actually learn how to apply this math, when this math will be applied, and why it is used in real life. Therefore, instead of just memorizing formulas we actually know what each variable in a formula means and why it is arranged a certain way."" ""The book is written in an easy to understand language and is filled with helpful examples. As someone who is not very good at math, having so many opportunities to practice examples really helped me understand the material."" ""This is the best textbook I've ever used. I appreciated the easy and informal language used to explain things in a way that was very easy to understand. Teaches you about concepts related to life."" ""The instructional videos were an awesome way to learn. As a visual learner, I enjoyed the ability to go back and re-watch the videos if I felt like I wasn't grasping the concept of a particular item well enough."" ""The textbook is clearly written and helpful, the online exercises reinforce what's learned, and it's presented in a way that makes it accessible and applicable to the 'real world.' I learned something from EVERY exercise in this class."" ""The study tools definitely made a difference for me. I am a hands-on learner, so I was initially worried about taking online classes but the videos, PowerPoints, and games gave better understanding to me after I read the book."" ""The videos were great. The book helped reinforce all the information and the games were really fun and a great learning tool."" ""I really liked the Check Yourself games! Those were extremely helpful and fun in practicing different math problems."" ""The interactive games actually make the math easy to learn."" ""The book was amazing in that all the material was so easy to understand. It's as if they took a survey of all the things people wished were different about their previous math books and applied them to this book."" ""The video lessons were clearly explained and made the material accessible. Having review games available before each quiz provided a good way to review relevant information and let me know what sort of things to expect on the quizzes."" ""Math is a tough subject for me, and I found all of the learning material to be extremely useful in my learning process."

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Jim Matovina earned his M.S. in mathematics and a post-baccalaureate certificate in statistics at Purdue University Calumet. He teaches at the College of Southern Nevada, where he has also served as chair of the math department, as well as the department's webmaster. Ronald Yates is a professor of mathematics at the College of Southern Nevada. He earned his M.S. in mathematics at Montana State University and a Ph.D. in higher education leadership from the University of the Cumberlands. Outside of teaching, he serves as an alumni advisor for the Sigma Chi Fraternity.

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