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Review Of Math For Life By Jeffrey Bennett, Eric Gaze
Review Of Math For Life By Jeffrey Bennett, Eric Gaze
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Bennett, Jeffrey. 2012. Math for Life: Crucial Ideas You Didn’t Learn in School. Greenwood Village, CO: Roberts and Company Publishers. 216 pp. Cloth $25. ISBN: 978-1-936221-1.
Math for Life: Crucial Ideas You Didn’t Learn in School by Jeffrey Bennett is a general interest mathematics book focused on the topic of innumeracy, the mathematics required to be numerate and why quantitative literacy is important for an educated citizenry. This book raises the very important question of why the mathematics we need to navigate our daily world is given such short shrift in our K-12 math education system. Math for Life …