Common Sense Mathematics

This text is under contract with the Mathematical Association of America. The final version should be available on this page some time in the summer of 2015.

Until official publication you are free to use this draft. If you want to make copies for your students, just ask us for permission.

Here is the production version for the 2014-2015 academic year.

You can read the blog at quantitativereasoning.net

There is an instructor's manual. Here is the manual for the latest production version. Here is the current version, matching the current latest version of the text.

If you want to read the production version on a device that restricts the size of a pdf, you can find a chapter at a time (more or less) at these links:

• Preface and Chapter 1 (Fermi Problems)
  
• Chapter 2 (Units)
  
• Chapter 3 (Percentages)
  
• Chapter 4 (Inflation)
  
• Chapter 5 (Averages)
  
• Chapter 6 (Income Distribution)
  
• Chapter 7 (Electricity Bills)
  
• Chapter 8 (Climate Change)
  
• Chapter 9 (Compound Interest)
  
• Chapter 10 (Borrowing and Saving)
  
• Chapter 11 (Probability)
  
• Chapter 12 (Break the Bank)
  
• Chapter 13 (How Good is that Test?)
  
• Index and Hints

The development of Common Sense was supported in part
by National Science Foundation grant DUE-0942186.

Thanks
Ethan Bolker (eb AT cs DOT umb DOT edu)
Maura Mast (maura DOT mast AT umb DOT edu)