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| Preface | |
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| Essential Numeracy | |
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| Measurement and Units | |
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| Mercury and the Inuit of Greenland | |
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| Measuring | |
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| Accuracy and Precision of Measurement | |
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| Estimation and Approximation | |
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| Units of Measurement | |
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| Unit Conversion | |
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| Compound Units | |
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| Units in Equations and Formulas | |
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| Unit Prefixes | |
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| Scientific Notation and Order of Magnitude | |
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| Using Technology: Scientific Notation | |
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| Powers of 10 and Logarithms | |
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| Logarithmic Scales | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: Global Warming | |
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| Chapter Project: Melting of the Ice Caps | |
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| Ratios and Percentages | |
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| Ratios | |
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| Normalization | |
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| Percentage as a Type of Ratio | |
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| Parts per Thousand | |
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| Parts per Million and Parts per Billion | |
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| Percentage as a Measure of Change | |
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| Percentage Difference and Percentage Error | |
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| Proportions | |
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| Probability | |
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| Recurrence Intervals | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: Sinkholes and Lakes | |
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| Chapter Project: Measuring Habitat of Florida Lakes | |
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| Charts and Graphs | |
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| Pie Charts | |
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| Bar Charts | |
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| Frequency Histograms | |
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| Using Technology: Histograms | |
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| Relative Frequency Histograms | |
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| Scatterplots | |
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| Using Technology: Scatterplots | |
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| Line Graphs | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: Energy Demand and the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge | |
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| Chapter Project: U.S. Energy Flows | |
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| Function Modeling | |
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| Linear Functions and Regression | |
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| Modeling with Linear Functions | |
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| Units of Measure in Linear Equations | |
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| Dependent versus Independent Variables | |
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| Graphing Linear Functions | |
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| Using Technology: Graphs and Tables | |
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| Approximating Almost-Linear Data Sets | |
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| Straightedge Method | |
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| Least Squares Regression | |
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| Using Technology: Linear Regression | |
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| The Correlation Coefficient: r | |
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| Using Technology: The Correlation Coefficient | |
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| Correlation Fallacies | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: Population Growth | |
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| Chapter Project: Fertility Rates in Developing Countries | |
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| Exponential Functions and Regression | |
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| Exponential Rates and Multipliers | |
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| The General Exponential Model | |
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| Finding Exponential Functions-The More General Case | |
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| Solving Exponential Equations | |
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| Doubling Times and Half-Lives | |
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| Approximating Almost-Exponential Data Sets | |
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| Straightedge Method | |
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| Least Squares Regression | |
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| Using Technology: Exponential Regression | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: Chicken Nation | |
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| Chapter Project: Broiler Chicken Production | |
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| Power Functions | |
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| Basic Power Functions | |
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| Solving Power Equations | |
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| Approximating Power-Like Data | |
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| Straightedge Method | |
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| Least Squares Regression | |
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| Using Technology: Power Regression | |
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| Power Law Frequency Distributions | |
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| Power Law Distributions and Fractals | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: Earthquakes and Fractals | |
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| Chapter Project: A New Model for Earthquakes | |
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| Difference Equation Modeling | |
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| Introduction to Difference Equations | |
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| Sequences and Notation | |
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| Modeling with Difference Equations | |
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| Linear Difference Equations | |
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| Exponential Difference Equations | |
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| Why Use Difference Equations? | |
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| Affine Difference Equations | |
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| Using Technology: Difference Equations | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: The Politics of Immigration | |
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| Chapter Project: Human Population and Migration | |
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| Affine Solution Equations and Equilibrium Values | |
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| The Solution Equation to the Affine Model | |
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| Equilibrium Values | |
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| Classification of Equilibrium Values | |
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| Revisiting the Affine Solution Equation | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: Get The Lead Out | |
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| Chapter Project: Lead in the Body | |
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| Logistic Growth, Harvesting and Chaos | |
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| Modeling Logistic Growth with Difference Equations | |
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| Logistic Equilibrium Values | |
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| Harvest Models | |
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| Periodic Behavior | |
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| Chaotic Behavior | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: Harvesting and Sustainable Forestry | |
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| Chapter Project: Tropical Forests Forever? | |
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| Systems of Difference Equations | |
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| Systems Modeling | |
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| Using Technology: Systems of Difference Equations | |
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| Exponential Change and Stable Age Distributions | |
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| What Else Besides Populations? | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: A River Runs Through Europe | |
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| Chapter Project: Pollution in a Chain of Lakes | |
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| Elementary Statistics | |
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| Fundamentals of Statistics | |
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| Measures of Center and Other Descriptive Statistics | |
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| Weighted Means | |
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| Quartiles and the 5-Number Summary | |
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| Boxplots | |
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| Using Technology: Finding Descriptive Statistics | |
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| Shape of a Data Set | |
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| Using Technology: Histograms | |
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| A Skew Formula | |
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| Comparing the Mean and Median | |
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| Sampling | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: Energy Makeover | |
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| Chapter Project: Electric Bills and Super Bulbs | |
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| Standard Deviation | |
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| Standard Deviation | |
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| Calculating Position Using Z-Scores | |
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| Outliers | |
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| Chebychev's Rule | |
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| Normal Distributions | |
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| The Empirical Rule | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: Impermeable Surfaces and Urban Runoff | |
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| Chapter Project: Urban Runoff Scorecard | |
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| Normal Distributions | |
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| The Standard Normal Distribution | |
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| Transformations to Normal | |
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| Confidence Intervals | |
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| For Means | |
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| For Proportions | |
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| Chapter Summary | |
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| End-of-Chapter Exercises | |
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| Science in Depth: Hazardous Household Waste | |
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| Chapter Project: Taxes on Toxics | |
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| Appendix: Unit Conversions | |
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| Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises | |
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| Index | |