"Here is a whole new way of looking at math that liberates math phobes from their anxiety, enables business people to do their jobs more effectively, challenges and informs math buffs, and provides educators with the tools to teach math easily and effectively. How can it do all that? By reuniting numbers and meaning, two subjects that should never have been separated in the first place. Entertaining, anecdotal, and immensely practical, this extraordinary book offers a revolutionary way of looking at math as a language, something that we've all heard before but which has never made sense until now. Mathsemanticsis that rare book that will change the way you look at the world-and provide the most sensible and inspiring answer yet to the problem of American innumeracy.
""Eye opening . . . a good antidote to innumeracy.""-Library Journal"
By:
Edward MacNeal Imprint: Penguin US Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 129mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 261g ISBN:9780140234862 ISBN 10: 0140234861 Pages: 320 Publication Date:01 March 1995 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
1. A fruitful start 2. The challenge of togetherness 3. Problems with names 4. The magic of names 5. The magic undone 6. More problems with names 7. Three domains 8. Grasping nothing 9. Divorce 10. Writer's cramp 11. Yes, but why does 2 times 2 equal 4? 12. Impurities 13. Roundly speaking 14. A significant number 15. Space rates 16. Caring for symbol systems 17. Sorry to be late 18. Time 19. One for all 20. Estimating 21. On the fence 22. Percentages 23. Surveys 24. The bugs in the bottle Appendices: A. Quizzes B. Quiz index and answers C. Mathsemantic propositions Selected sources General index