When you visit a doctor's office or a hospital, chances are you come into contact with a nurse, a skilled professional who uses math everyday to do his or her job. How Nurses Use Math illustrates how nurses use math to calculate medication dosages and judge the health and safety of their patients.

Concepts and skills emphasized include:

Number Sense and Operations
Problem Solving
Estimation
Measurement
Data Analysis
Algebraic Thinking
Geometry and Spatial Sense.