Math for Life: Crucial Ideas You Didn't Learn in School
Winner -- 2012 Colorado Book Award(Best General Nonfiction Book)An insightful look at the crucial role mathematics plays in  today's society, [written with a] pleasant, conversational style... Any reader, but especially parents, politicians, and professional educators, would benefit from reading this book. Highly recommended. All levels/libraries.  -- ChoiceMagazine (Sept. 2012)“Full marks to Jeffrey Bennett for delivering exactly what his title promises. This is not the math your teacher (probably) said you would need in adult life but never did; it’s the math you know you need—but likely don’t have. It’s not a traditional textbook; it’s a how-to manual for clear thinking about the quantitative aspects of everyday life, bursting with intriguing, practical, real-life examples. I recommend it.”— Keith Devlin, Ph.D., Stanford University, author of The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci’s Arithmetic Revolution and The Math Gene, and the Math Guy on National Public Radio.“Sprinkled with illuminating examples, Math for Life presents issues critical to personal and national security—even survival—in clear and forthright terms. Underlying this important message is the obvious failure of U.S. mathematics education to meet the enormous quantitative reasoning demands of U.S. society. Jeffrey Bennett makes plain how current political and economic crises stem from this failure.”— Bernard L. Madison, Professor of Mathematics, University of Arkansas“Should be required reading for every American. There’s no more powerful way to equip yourself for our increasingly complex and quantitative world than to read Math for Life. Every concept is presented in a clear and engaging way.”— K. Shane Goodwin, Professor of Mathematics, Brigham Young University–Idaho