{"id":1049,"date":"2017-01-10T23:49:19","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T23:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/waymakermath4libarts\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=1049"},"modified":"2017-04-17T23:58:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T23:58:04","slug":"introduction-solving-problems-with-math","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/chapter\/introduction-solving-problems-with-math\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction: Solving Problems With Math","rendered":"Introduction: Solving Problems With Math"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\r\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Identify and apply a solution\u00a0pathway for multi-step problems<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/div>\r\nIn this section we will bring together the mathematical tools we\u2019ve reviewed, and use them to approach more complex problems. In many problems, it is tempting to take the given information, plug it into whatever formulas you have handy, and hope that the result is what you were supposed to find. Chances are, this approach has served you well in other math classes.\r\n\r\nThis approach does <strong>not<\/strong> work well with real life problems, however. Read on to learn how to use a generalized problem solving approach to solve a wide variety of quantitative problems, including how taxes are calculated.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox learning-objectives\">\n<h3>Learning Objectives<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Identify and apply a solution\u00a0pathway for multi-step problems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>In this section we will bring together the mathematical tools we\u2019ve reviewed, and use them to approach more complex problems. In many problems, it is tempting to take the given information, plug it into whatever formulas you have handy, and hope that the result is what you were supposed to find. Chances are, this approach has served you well in other math classes.<\/p>\n<p>This approach does <strong>not<\/strong> work well with real life problems, however. Read on to learn how to use a generalized problem solving approach to solve a wide variety of quantitative problems, including how taxes are calculated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-1049\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Learning objectives. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Math in Society. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Lippman, David. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.opentextbookstore.com\/mathinsociety\/\">http:\/\/www.opentextbookstore.com\/mathinsociety\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":21,"menu_order":6,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Learning objectives\",\"author\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"},{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"Math in Society\",\"author\":\"Lippman, David\",\"organization\":\"\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.opentextbookstore.com\/mathinsociety\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"ed0618dd-7e5e-440f-919f-e3d6780c6cf9","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-1049","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":35,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2208,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1049\/revisions\/2208"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/35"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/1049\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-mathforliberalarts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}