Go Figure!

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This paper examines the above book which discusses every imponderable imaginable right from the mundane ones such as lottery odds, predicting a child's height, baseball arithmetic, to more complex ones including Windchill equivalent temperature, carbon dating, Newton's relativity theory and synchronous satellites. It shows how the book improves one's problem solving skills by making them think about imponderables and also aids one's understanding of mathematical concepts and sheds light on their useful application in our everyday lives. It evaluates how the book is also an attempt to improve numeracy among American public by making them more aware of the usefulness of mathematics in their lives.

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"The book begins with calculation of distance between one particular point and the horizon. Brookhart gives a simple geometric formula to predict the approximate distance. A casual look at these formulas in the beginning of the book prepares the reader for what comes later. However the very simple tone of the book is what arouses skepticism in readers. Some have even pointed out the errors they found in the book. For example the rejection of Goldbach's well-known assumption that "no one has ever found a number greater than 2 that could not be expressed as the sum of two prime numbers" is one such error."

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