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"For All Practical Purposes" is the most effective and engaging textbook available for showing mathematics at work in areas with a direct impact on our lives (consumer products and advertising, politics, the economy, the Internet). Designed for students from a non-maths background who think that mathematics is irrelevant and dull and for instructors who want to enliven their classes with active participation and reality based problem solving. Supplements "Study Guide" (0-7167-6946-8); "Student Solutions Manual" (0-7167-0010-7); "Instructor's Survival Kit" (0-7167-7777-0); "Teaching Assistants Guide" (0-7167-0128-6); "Instructor's Manual" (0-7167-6947-6); "Instructor's Resource CD-ROM" (0-7167-6940-9).
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COMAP, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, is a group of mathematicians and teachers dedicated to helping students learn by showing how mathematics is put to work in their lives.
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