Math for liberal arts major text

[David Lippman]

I'm happy to announce the first edition release of a "survey of math" textbook appropriate for college level math courses targeted towards liberal arts majors, sometimes titled "Contemporary Mathematics" or "Math in Society". In the Washington state community college system, this course has a common course number of Math& 107.

This text was designed to be fairly compatible with the two "major players" in this market: For all Practical Purposes (COMAP) and Excursions in Modern Math (Tannenbaum).

Individual chapters are available in Word or PDF format at http://www.pierce.ctc.edu/dlippman/mathinsociety/. The entire book is available for free download or purchase of a hard copy at Lulu.com.

The book is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

I would welcome contributions of additional exercises, projects, or chapters. I also welcome any reviews, comments, or suggestions.

[Judy Baker]

This is wonderful news! I just tweeted about it (see http://www.twitter.com/educ8ter) and I added this open textbook to our list at the OER Consortium website (see http://oerconsortium.org/discipline-specific).

Thank you David!