### Amazon.com Review This is the book that made ''innumeracy'' a household word, at least in some households. Paulos admits that ''at least part of the motivation for any book is anger, and this book is no exception. I'm distressed by a society which depends so completely on mathematics and scienc
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences (P, L, S)by John Allen Paulos
โ Scribed by Review by: Gloria S. Dion
- Book ID
- 124083760
- Publisher
- National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
- Year
- 1989
- Weight
- 587 KB
- Volume
- 82
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0025-5769
- DOI
- 10.2307/27966398
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