Author Description

Living With Math: Making Healthy Decisions for Yourself and the Earth is NOT a textbook. It is an informative and interesting "armchair" read which presents mathematics as an embedded fragment within the larger context of history and society. It is designed to assist readers in realizing that a working knowledge of mathematics is essential to living more consciously, and to making more intelligent, better informed decisions about everything from the foods they choose to eat to environmental issues to politics. Mathematical skills are illustrated using very pertinent, current issues as examples, such as health care, diet, inflation, taxes, pollution, world population and food production. The historical and topical commentaries make the book a very enjoyable and compelling read for the layperson, as well as an excellent resource for teachers.