Is That a Big Number?
Impressive statistics are thrown at us every day - the cost of health care; the size of an earthquake; the distance to the nearest star; the number of giraffes in the world.We know all these numbers are important - some more than others - and it's vaguely unsettling when we… Celý popis ↓
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Is That a Big Number?
Impressive statistics are thrown at us every day - the cost of health care; the size of an earthquake; the distance to the nearest star; the number of giraffes in the world.We know all these numbers are important - some more than others - and it's vaguely unsettling when we don't really have a clear sense of how remarkable or how ordinary they are. Are they significant, should we be worried, or excited, or impressed? How do we work out what these figures actually mean?
Andrew Elliott gives us the tips and tools to make sense of numbers, to get a sense of proportion, to decipher what matters. How big is big, how small is small?With this entertaining and engaging book, help is at hand. It is a celebration of a numerate way of understanding the world.
It shows how number skills help us to understand the everyday world close at hand, and how the same skills can be stretched to
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