Appendix

Activities

Get to know your neighbor

• Form groups of two or three and discuss any of the following

• What do you like most and least about math?

• What do you hope to get from this class?

• What is your greatest fear about this class?

• Is math important to your career goals?

Questions

Think of questions that you want to know the answers to. Then ask yourself whether or not mathematics can help answer them.

Here are a few examples:

• Is climate change an urgent problem?

• Does our justice system treat everyone equally and fairly?

Challenge yourself by coming up with a list of twenty questions.

References

• Turning Numbers into Knowledge, Jonathan Koomey

  • 1. Don't Believe Everything You Read

  • 1. Distinguish Facts From Values

  • 1. Make a Model

  • 1. Reuse Old Envelopes

• A Mind For Numbers, Barbara Oakley

  • 1. Open the Door

  • 1. Easy Does It

  • 1. Learning is Creating

  • 1. Chunking and Avoiding Illusions of Competence

  • 1. Preventing Procrastination

  • 1. Zombies Everywhere

• Guesstimation, Weinstein and Adam

  • 1. How to Solve Problems

  • 1. Dealing with Large Numbers

• The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity, Steven Strogatz.

  • 1. From Fish to Infinity

  • 1. Rock Groups

  • 1. Commuting

  • 1. Division and Its Discontents

  • 1. Location, Location, Location

  • 1. My Tub Runneth Over

• The Signal and the Noise, Nate Silver

• How Not To Be Wrong, Ellenberg

• How To Lie With Statistics, Darrell Huff

• Naked Statistics, Charles Wheelan

• Modeling is the New Literacy

• Grit, Angela Duckworth

• Mindset, Carol Dweck

• Sanjoy Mahajan