Books published by publisher HOLT MCDOUGAL

Program Overview Active Learning Hands-on games and activities capture the imagination and help your students connect to essential concepts. Flexible Lesson Development Flexible planning tools help you reduce your preparation time and maximize your goals, while giving you the freedom to teach your way every day. Effective Assessment Ongoing, intetegrated assessment gives you the power, flexibility, and feedback to prepare your students for success.

Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and an increased susceptibility to pseudoscience of all kinds. Innumeracy lets us know what we're missing, and how we can do something about it.Sprinkling his discussion of numbers and probabilities with quirky stories and anecdotes, Paulos ranges freely over many aspects of modern life, from contested elections to sports stats, from stock scams and newspaper psychics to diet and medical claims, sex discrimination, insurance, lotteries, and drug testing. Readers of Innumeracy will be rewarded with scores of astonishing facts, a fistful of powerful ideas, and, most important, a clearer, more quantitative way of looking at their world.