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"For All Practical Purposes" is the most effective and engaging textbook available for showing mathematics at work in areas with a direct impact on our lives (consumer products and advertising, politics, the economy, the Internet). Designed for students from a non-maths background who think that mathematics is irrelevant and dull and for instructors who want to enliven their classes with active participation and reality based problem solving. It includes: Supplements Study Guide (0-7167-6946-8); "Student Solutions Manual" (0-7167-0010-7); "Instructor's Survival Kit" (0-7167-7777-0); "Teaching Assistants Guide" (0-7167-0128-6); "Instructor's Manual" (0-7167-6947-6); and "Instructor's Resource CD-ROM" (0-7167-6940-9).

COMAP, the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, is a group of mathematicians and teachers dedicated to helping students learn by showing how mathematics is put to work in their lives.