This book includes several topics generally not seen in comparable texts. I am very pleased, even impressed, to see that:

• Readers will encounter here an introduction to reasoning through the motivated presentation of basic logic. The use of a truth table to draw conclusions about a statement is a lost art now, rarely taught in secondary education and early college, at least in America. This dovetails nicely with the authors’ electrical switching (parallel and serial) word problems.
• The book includes well-considered personal finance advice, fulfilling a very present need for practical education. It includes bankruptcy laws, savings instruments, insurance types, budgeting, sales tax, and more. Together with a few pages on considering renting versus leasing versus buying, this chapter is strong in the practicalities of personal finance.
• The syntax of proofs, including ? and ?.
• Induction is covered earlier and at greater depth than is typical.
• There is a deeper introduction to statistics, including the normal distribution, z-scores, and a very good introduction to normal approximation for binomial probabilities.
• A decent bit of geometry filling a gap I typically have to deal with by supplementary material, for example to explain "scalene" and the implication of an axis being "transverse."
• Set theory that goes deeper than usual, for instance reaching to "closure", etc. […]

The authors’ choices of what to include and exclude mean this book may not match a typical curriculum. I see this book as containing enough for perhaps two semesters of first-year college coursework." --Excerpted from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) review by Tom Schulte, 01/11/2017. Professor Shulte teaches finite mathematics and algebra courses at Oakland Community College in Michigan.