Quantitative Literacy Through Games and Gambling
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- Paperback
108 pages
- Release Date
4 October 2024
Summary
Gamble on Learning: Mastering Quantitative Literacy Through Games
This book addresses the need for engaging material in Quantitative Literacy courses, where students often lack motivation and interest in mathematics.
It serves as a textbook focused on a single, intrinsically interesting idea: the application of discrete probability to familiar games like roulette, poker, and blackjack. The gambling material is interwoven throughout the book, introduced as the necessary mathe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781032633923 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1032633921 |
| Series: | Textbooks in Mathematics |
| Author: | Mark Hunacek |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Imprint: | Chapman & Hall/CRC |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 108 |
| Release Date: | 4 October 2024 |
| Weight: | 220g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Mark Hunacek
Mark Hunacek received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Rutgers University, and also acquired a wife who that year had also gotten a mathematics Ph.D. Faced with the familiar “two body problem”, which was more of an issue in 1978 than it is now, he went to law school and then spent almost three decades practicing law. After retiring from the practice of law, things came full circle and he was lucky enough to be offered a position in the mathematics department at Iowa State University, where, as one of his responsibilities, he redesigned and oversaw the two quantitative literacy courses offered there, one of which inspired this textbook. In 2021 he retired and became a Teaching Professor Emeritus.
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