Quantitative Literacy Through Games and Gambling

Quantitative Literacy Through Games and Gambling

This book was developed to address a need. Quantitative Literacy courses have been established in the mathematics curriculum for decades now. The students in these courses typically dislike and fear mathematics, and the result is often a class populated by many students that are unmotivated and uninterested in the ma......
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<p>This book was developed to address a need. Quantitative Literacy courses have been established in the mathematics curriculum for decades now. The students in these courses typically dislike and fear mathematics, and the result is often a class populated by many students that are unmotivated and uninterested in the material.</p><p><b> </b></p><p>This book is a text for such a course; however, it is focused on a single idea that most students seem to already have some intrinsic interest in and is written at an accessible level. It covers the basic ideas of discrete probability and shows how these ideas can be applied to familiar games (roulette, poker, blackjack, etc.) The gambling material is interweaved through the book, introduced as soon as the necessary mathematics has been developed. Throughout, mathematical formalism and symbolism have been avoided, and numerous examples are provided.</p><p> </p><p>The book starts with a simple definition of probability, goes through some basic
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This book was developed to address a need. Quantitative Literacy courses have been established in the mathematics curriculum for decades now. The students in these courses typically dislike and fear mathematics, and the result is often a class populated by many students that are unmotivated and uninterested in the material.This book is a text for such a course; however, it is focused on a single idea that most students seem to already have some intrinsic interest in and is written at an accessible level. It covers the basic ideas of discrete probability and shows how these ideas can be applied to familiar games (roulette, poker, blackjack, etc.) The gambling material is interweaved through the book, introduced as soon as the necessary mathematics has been developed. Throughout, mathematical formalism and symbolism have been avoided, and numerous examples are provided.The book starts with a simple definition of probability, goes through some basic concepts like combining events and expected value, and then discusses some elementary mathematical aspects of various games. Roulette is introduced very early on, as is the game of craps, which requires some knowledge of conditional probability. Other games like poker, blackjack and lotteries, whose study requires some rudimentary combinatorics come shortly thereafter. The book ends with a brief introduction to zero-sum games, with some attention paid to the use of these ideas in studying bluffing.In addition to discussion of these traditional games, the author motivates probability by talking about a few applications in legal proceedings which illustrate how mathematics has been misused in the courtroom. There is also a discussion of the Monty Hall problem, a non-intuitive result in probability that has an interesting and colorful history.Hopefully, students studying from this text will find mathematics is not as horrible as he or she has always thought and offers some interesting applications in the real world. This should perhaps be the goal of any quantitative literacy course.

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Oppdag "Quantitative Literacy Through Games and Gambling"

Quantitative Literacy Through Games and Gambling er den perfekte boken for alle som ønsker å gjøre matte til en spennende opplevelse. I stedet for den typiske klasseromsopplevelsen, dykker denne boken ned i den fascinerende verden av spill og gambling, som ofte allerede fanger studentenes interesse. Dette enestående alternativet til tradisjonell matematikkundervisning fokuserer på å gjøre matematikk mer tilgjengelig og underholdende.

Hvorfor Velge Denne Boken?

  • Engasjerende Innhold: Boken behandler emner som diskret sannsynlighet og forventet verdi på en enkel og forståelig måte, og vever inn kjente spill som poker, blackjack og rulett.
  • Praktiske Eksempler: Gjennom boken får du rikelig med eksempler som gjør det lett å forstå hvordan matematikk brukes i hverdagslige situasjoner, og hvordan det påvirker beslutninger vi tar.
  • Unike Perspektiver: Lær hvordan matematikken har blitt misbrukt i rettssaker, og oppdag Monty Hall-problemet, en fascinerende del av sannsynlighetsteori med en utrolig historie.

Et Utmerket Verktøy for Alle Aldersgrupper

Boken er skrevet for et bredt spekter av lesere og er ideell for studenter som vil lære mer om kvantitativ kompetanse på en lettfattelig måte. Den unngår komplisert symbolikk og fokuserer i stedet på praktiske anvendelser av matematikk, noe som gjør det lettere for leserne å knytte teori til virkelige situasjoner.

Kom i Gang med Matematikkens Verden

Ved å bruke spillet som en læringsplattform, vil du oppdage at matematikk ikke er så skummelt som mange tror. Boken "Quantitative Literacy Through Games and Gambling" tilbyr en ny tilnærming som vil inspirere deg til å utforske matematiske konsepter gjennom glede og underholdning.

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