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The following book has met the evaluation criteria developed by the AIM Editorial Board.

Math in Society
  by David Lippman

Digital versions pdf of complete text and individual chapters
Word source Available for individual chapters
Exercises Yes
Solutions Yes for odd-numbered exercises
License Creative Commons Attribution-­Share Alike 3.0

  • Text for a liberal arts math course
  • Part of the Washington Open Course Library
  • 190 supplementary videos each 4 or 5 minutes long
  • Print version from CreateSpace for $12
  • For more information and to download

In this textbook there are fourteen chapters that are mostly indpendent of each other. For a typical semester course the instructor can choose several of the sections but would not be able to cover all of them. The text is full of exercises and activities to keep the students actively engaged. Each chapter has a number of short videos to emphasize the key ideas or show how to solve examples.