Chapter 1: Critical Thinking
Section 1.1 Public policy and Simpson's paradox: Is "average" always average?
Section 1.2 Logic and informal fallacies: Does that argument hold water?
Section 1.3 Formal logic and truth tables: Do computers think?
Section 1.4 Sets and Venn diagrams: Pictorial logic
Section 1.5 Critical thinking and number sense: What do these figures mean?
Chapter 2: Analysis is of Growth
Section 2.1 Measurements of growth: How fast is it changing?
Section 2.2 Graphs: Picturing growth
Section 2.3 Misleading graphs: Should I believe my eyes?
Chapter 3: Linear and Exponential Change: Comparing Growth Rates
Section 3.1 Lines and linear growth: What does a constant rate mean?
Section 3.2 Exponential Growth and Decay: Constant Percentage Rates
Section 3.3 Logarithmic Phenomena: Compressed Scales
Chapter 4: Personal Finance
Section 4.1 Saving money: The power of compounding
Section 4.2 Borrowing: How much car can you afford?
Section 4.3 Saving for the long term: Build that nest egg
Section 4.4 Credit cards: Paying off consumer debt
Section 4.5 Inflation, taxes, and stocks: Managing your money
Chapter 5: Introduction to Probability
Section 5.1 Calculating probabilities: How likely is it?
Section 5.2 Medical testing and conditional probability: Ill or Not?
Section 5.3 Counting and theoretical probabilities: How many?
Section 5.4 More ways of counting: Permuting and combining
Section 5.5 Expected value and the law of large numbers: Don't bet on it
Chapter 6: Statistics
Section 6.1 Data Summary and presentation: Boiling down the numbers
Section 6.2 The normal distribution: Why the bell curve?
Section 6.3 The statistics of polling: Can we believe the polls?
Section 6.4 Statistical inference and clinical trials: Effective drugs?
Chapter 7: Graph Theory
Section 7.1 Modeling with graphs and finding Euler circuits
Section 7.2 Hamilton circuits and traveling salesmen: Efficient routes
Section 7.3 Trees: Why are spell checkers so fast?
Chapter 8: Voting and Social Choice
Section 8.1 Measuring voting power: Does my vote count?
Section 8.2 Voting systems: How do we choose a Winner?
Section 8.3 Fair division: What is a fair share?
Section 8.4 Apportionment: Am I represented?
Chapter 9: Geometry
Section 9.1 Perimeter, area, and volume: How do I measure?
Section 9.2 Proportionality and similarity: Changing the scale
Section 9.3 Symmetries and Tilings: Form and patterns