| Environmental Mathematics in the Classroom Contributor(s): Fusaro, B. a. (Editor), Kenschaft, P. C. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0883857146 ISBN-13: 9780883857144 Publisher: Mathematical Association of America (MAA) OUR PRICE: $60.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2003 Annotation: This volume provides mathematicians with the terminology and concepts needed to apply mathematics to a variety of environmental fields. It uses real-world data to break the abstract notion of mathematics and turns it into a tool for understanding serious environmental issues. Each chapter is a separate article on a different area of environmental study, written by an expert in that field. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics - Technology & Engineering | Environmental - General |
| Dewey: 628 |
| LCCN: 2002114175 |
| Series: Classroom Resource Materials |
| Physical Information: 263 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Environmental Mathematics seeks to marry the most pressing challenge of our time with the most powerful technology of our time - mathematics. This book does this at an elementary level and demonstrates a wide variety of significant environmental applications that can be explored without resorting to calculus. Environmental Mathematics in the Classroom includes several chapters accessible enough to be a text in a general education course, or to enrich an elementary algebra course. Ground-level ozone, pollution and water use, preservation of whales, mathematical economics, the movement of clouds over a mountain range, at least one population model and a smorgasbord of 'newspaper mathematics' can be studied at this level and would form a stimulating course. It would prepare future teachers not only to learn basic mathematics, but to understand how they can integrate it into other topics that will intrigue students. |
