Travel Math

Math 24/7

by Helen Thompson

Discusses the mathematics involved in traveling, including luggage size, money exchange, and gas mileage.

48 pages, Library Binding

First published September 1, 2013

Reviews

[Heather Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Travel Math is set up more like a workbook than a regular book, with math problems to work on in every chapter and a handy answer section in the back. Each chapter builds on the previous ones, asking you to refer to the answers you got in order to answer new questions. This would be good, except that it does mean that you can't skip the parts you already understand. Chapter 15 is 'Putting It All Together', and asks you to figure things out using the knowledge gained plus some new variables such as using different interest rates or saving different percentages of your allowance. This section also asks you to refer to earlier answers.
The info about evaluating deals for the best price and how time zone differences are important on a trip or at home were valuable knowledge to have.
It would have been nice to have the family take 2 trips: a short weekend trip and the longer trip to Australia. Then they could have done a problem involving the average speed for a car and estimating how long it will take to get to the destination at various speeds.
I truly believe that the trip budget included far too little for food in other countries, especially Australia. At $15/day per person, one could barely afford fast food.