Open Resources for Community College Algebra

Open Resources for Community College Algebra
Author: Ann Cary
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781088601761

ORCCA (Open Resources for Community College Algebra) is an open-source beginning and intermediate algebra textbook created by faculty at Portland Community College. This is Part 1, which covers Chapters 1-4 of the entire textbook. It is designed for PCC's MTH 60 course (Introductory Algebra I).See pcc.edu/orcca for further resources related to this book.

Statistics Using Technology, Second Edition

Statistics Using Technology, Second Edition
Author: Kathryn Kozak
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2015-12-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1329757254

Statistics With Technology, Second Edition, is an introductory statistics textbook. It uses the TI-83/84 calculator and R, an open source statistical software, for all calculations. Other technology can also be used besides the TI-83/84 calculator and the software R, but these are the ones that are presented in the text. This book presents probability and statistics from a more conceptual approach, and focuses less on computation. Analysis and interpretation of data is more important than how to compute basic statistical values.

Math in Society

Math in Society
Author: David Lippman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-09-07
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 9781479276530

Math in Society is a survey of contemporary mathematical topics, appropriate for a college-level topics course for liberal arts major, or as a general quantitative reasoning course.This book is an open textbook; it can be read free online at http://www.opentextbookstore.com/mathinsociety/. Editable versions of the chapters are available as well.

Orcca

Orcca
Author: Alex Jordan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2018-03-05
Genre:
ISBN: 9781986282598

ORCCA (Open Resources for Community College Algebra) is an open-source textbook created by faculty at Portland Community College. This volume includes Chapters 1-4 of the entire textbook, and is designed for PCC's MTH 60 course. This edition is to be used for the Spring/Summer 2018 terms.

Math in Our World

Math in Our World
Author: Dave Sobecki
Publisher:
Total Pages: 863
Release: 2011
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780072982534

Rev. ed. of: Mathematics in our world / Allan G. Bluman. c2005.

Mathematics in Service to the Community

Mathematics in Service to the Community
Author: Charles Robert Hadlock
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America (MAA)
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2005
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN:

Publisher description: This book looks at the wide variety of ways in which math, statistics, and math education teachers have incorporated service-learning into their courses. These projects are not just stand-alone community service initiatives, but rather they specifically target the improvement of mathematics skills and insights of the college students in the courses with which they are associated. In some cases, the projects are the major focus of the courses. In others, they may range from an essential component to one of several options. The book also speculates about heretofore untapped possibilities for service-learning, even including courses in pure mathematics. College faculty often may not fully appreciate the wide range of support mechanisms for such ventures even within their own institutions, so the book includes a lengthy chapter on the details of converting a rough idea to a solid action plan, sometimes even picking up financial support and other often unexpected benefits along the way. Creative teachers rarely implement a project in exactly the same way as a colleague might have, so the emphasis here is to display a wide range of successful projects in order to encourage readers to develop some of their own.

An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning

An Introduction to Mathematical Reasoning
Author: Peter J. Eccles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2013-06-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1139632566

This book eases students into the rigors of university mathematics. The emphasis is on understanding and constructing proofs and writing clear mathematics. The author achieves this by exploring set theory, combinatorics, and number theory, topics that include many fundamental ideas and may not be a part of a young mathematician's toolkit. This material illustrates how familiar ideas can be formulated rigorously, provides examples demonstrating a wide range of basic methods of proof, and includes some of the all-time-great classic proofs. The book presents mathematics as a continually developing subject. Material meeting the needs of readers from a wide range of backgrounds is included. The over 250 problems include questions to interest and challenge the most able student but also plenty of routine exercises to help familiarize the reader with the basic ideas.

High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice

High School Mathematics Lessons to Explore, Understand, and Respond to Social Injustice
Author: Robert Q. Berry III
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2020-03-09
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1071806467

Empower students to be the change—join the teaching mathematics for social justice movement! We live in an era in which students have —through various media and their lived experiences— a more visceral experience of social, economic, and environmental injustices. However, when people think of social justice, mathematics is rarely the first thing that comes to mind. Through model lessons developed by over 30 diverse contributors, this book brings seemingly abstract high school mathematics content to life by connecting it to the issues students see and want to change in the world. Along with expert guidance from the lead authors, the lessons in this book explain how to teach mathematics for self- and community-empowerment. It walks teachers step-by-step through the process of using mathematics—across all high school content domains—as a tool to explore, understand, and respond to issues of social injustice including: environmental injustice; wealth inequality; food insecurity; and gender, LGBTQ, and racial discrimination. This book features: Content cross-referenced by mathematical concept and social issues Downloadable instructional materials for student use User-friendly and logical interior design for daily use Guidance for designing and implementing social justice lessons driven by your own students’ unique passions and challenges Timelier than ever, teaching mathematics through the lens of social justice will connect content to students’ daily lives, fortify their mathematical understanding, and expose them to issues that will make them responsive citizens and leaders in the future.

Advanced Calculus (Revised Edition)

Advanced Calculus (Revised Edition)
Author: Lynn Harold Loomis
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Total Pages: 595
Release: 2014-02-26
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9814583952

An authorised reissue of the long out of print classic textbook, Advanced Calculus by the late Dr Lynn Loomis and Dr Shlomo Sternberg both of Harvard University has been a revered but hard to find textbook for the advanced calculus course for decades.This book is based on an honors course in advanced calculus that the authors gave in the 1960's. The foundational material, presented in the unstarred sections of Chapters 1 through 11, was normally covered, but different applications of this basic material were stressed from year to year, and the book therefore contains more material than was covered in any one year. It can accordingly be used (with omissions) as a text for a year's course in advanced calculus, or as a text for a three-semester introduction to analysis.The prerequisites are a good grounding in the calculus of one variable from a mathematically rigorous point of view, together with some acquaintance with linear algebra. The reader should be familiar with limit and continuity type arguments and have a certain amount of mathematical sophistication. As possible introductory texts, we mention Differential and Integral Calculus by R Courant, Calculus by T Apostol, Calculus by M Spivak, and Pure Mathematics by G Hardy. The reader should also have some experience with partial derivatives.In overall plan the book divides roughly into a first half which develops the calculus (principally the differential calculus) in the setting of normed vector spaces, and a second half which deals with the calculus of differentiable manifolds.