Math for Life by Jeffrey O. BennettMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
Bennett here seeks to make mathematics relevant. He has good examples such as election vote counting, political districting, energy and population exponential models, tax laws, and more. Books like this often lead in with extreme numbers: atoms in the universe, atoms in a dot, etc. This book does the same and I think such intuition challenging magnitudes are cheap parlor tricks. The rest of the book is well-done arguments toward applying basic mathematical literacy, which I agree with the author needs a focus in public schools, to real-world problems. These contextual approaches are explained in this self-contained work requiring mathematics no more complex than taught in typical high school courses.
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