Thinking Quantitatively: Communicating with Numbers, 2nd edition

Published by Pearson (April 30, 2019) © 2020

  • Eric Gaze Bowdoin College
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Today it's essential to understand, communicate and make decisions with data we encounter every day in our personal, civic and business lives. Understanding the numbers behind real-life topics enables you to evaluate information and make confident choices. Thinking Quantitatively, 2nd Edition helps you develop the critical-thinking and math skills you'll need to become an informed, numerically literate citizen. This fully digital solution is a seamless learning experience that comprises the author's text content, extensively revised Guided Worksheets with real-world examples, and auto-graded Excel® problems with immediate feedback. You'll be able to put your learning to practice immediately. With auto-graded Excel homework, the text also supports students in using Excel to directly analyze and interpret data. 

Spreadsheet Basics

A.1 Introduction to Spreadsheets

A.2 Built-in Functions

A.3 Charts


Chapter 1: An Excel-lent Approach to Relationships

1.1 Functions

1.2 Analytic Representations: Equations

1.3 Numerical and Graphical Representations: Tables and Charts

1.4 Spotlight on Statistics


Chapter 2: Ratios and Proportions

2.1 Ratios and Proportions

2.2 Weighted Averages

2.3 Proportionality

2.4 Financial Literacy

2.5 Spotlight on Statistics


Chapter 3: Units, Conversions, Scales, and Rates

3.1 Units and Conversions

3.2 Scales

3.3 Rates

3.4 Dosages and Concentrations

3.5 Spotlight on Statistics


Chapter 4: Percentages

4.1 Percentages

4.2 Part-to-Whole Ratios

4.3 Percent Change and Difference

4.4 Data Tables with Percentages

4.5 Spotlight on Statistics


Chapter 5: Linear Functions

5.1 Proportionality

5.2 Slopes and y-intercepts

5.3 Linear Equations

5.4 Spotlight on Statistics


Chapter 6: Exponential Functions

6.1 Constant Percent Change

6.2 Exponential Functions

6.3 Average Percent Change

6.4 Spotlight on Statistics


Chapter 7: Logical Arithmetic

7.1 Logarithms

7.2 Doubling Times and Half-Lives

7.3 Annual Percentage Yield

7.4 Continuous Growth and Euler’s Number: e

7.5 Spotlight on Statistics


Chapter 8: Curve Fitting and Correlation

8.1 Correlation, Causation, and Confounding Factors

8.2 Best-Fit, Least-Squares, and Regression Lines

8.3 Correlation Coefficient and Coefficient of Linear Determination

8.4 Spotlight on Statistics


Chapter 9: Financial Health

9.1 Retirement

9.2 Securities: Cash, Stocks, Mutual Funds, and Bonds

9.3 401(k) Plans

9.4 Built-in Financial Functions

9.5 Loans


Chapter 10: Logically!

10.1 Logical Statements

10.2 Excel’s IF Function

10.3 VLOOKUP

10.4 Random Simulations


Chapter 11: Chance, Risk, and Likelihood

11.1 Risk and Decision Making

11.2 Probability and Counting

11.3 Conditional Probabilities

11.4 Unions and Complements

11.5 Spotlight on Statistics


NEW - Chapter 12: Statistically Speaking

12.1 Data Distributions: Frequency and Probability

12.2 Binomial and Normal Distributions

12.3 Sampling Distributions and Confidence Intervals

12.4 Hypothesis Testing


NEW - Chapter 13: Modeling the Real World

13.1 Modeling Basics

13.2 Rate (Population) Models

13.3 Stochastic (Random) Models

13.4 Linear Programming (Optimization) Models

13.5 Spotlight on Statistics



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