Text: A Mathematical View of Our World, 1st edition – Brooks-Cole - by Parks, Musser, Trimpe, Maurer, and Maurer

Tentative Course Outline

Number in Our Lives

• Identification Number and Check Digits

• Modular Arithmetic and Check Digit Schemes

• Encoding Data

Voting and Elections

• Voting Systems

• Flaw of the Voting Systems

• Weighted Voting Systems

Fair Division

• Divide and Choose Methods

• Discrete and Mixed Division Problems

• Envy-Free Division

Apportionment

• The Apportionment Problem – Quota Methods

• The Apportionment Problem – Divisor Methods

• Flaws of the Apportionment

Descriptive Statistics – Data and Patterns

• Organizing and Picturing Data

• Comparisons

• Enhancement, Distraction and Distortion

Collecting and Interpreting Data

• Populations, Samples and Data

• Survey Sampling Methods

• Measure of Central Tendency and Variability

Probability

• Computing Probabilities in Simple Experiments

• Computing Probabilities in Multistage Experiments

• Conditional Probability, Value and Odds

Growth and Decay

• Malthusian Population Growth

• Population Decrease

• Radioactive Decay

• Logistic Population Models

Consumer Mathematics – Buying and Saving

• Simple and Compound Interest

• Loans

• Buying a House