Applied Math for General Studies

Applied Math: General Studies is math workbook for non-STEM majors. The book answers real-world questions using real-world information in the areas of consumer math, finances, very basic statistics, and some linear and exponential modeling. 

What makes Applied Math: General Studies different? The students have a collection of databases—tables of information the author has collected from various federal, state, and local sources. These databases include information on topics such as local sales tax rates, historic Consumer Price Indices, minimum wage data historically and by state, gas prices, income tax rates, Federal Budget receipts and outlays, and more. The student must refer to the information in the databases to complete much of the work in the workbook. 

Applied Math: General Studies: 

• conditions the student to find the information needed to answer a question, just as they have to do in real life 
• provides a scaffolded experience as the text included guided notes for completion in an instructional setting, practice problems that have final answers but no full solutions provided, and application problems that allow the student to apply what they have just learned to their own life 
• has databases that are updated every year to provide the most current information possible 
• eliminates the need to answer the question, “Where will I ever use this?”