If I Had A Car

1. Summary of the book
I choose a book "If I Had A Car". As you can assume from the title, it is about a car.  A main character of rabbit, he is wondering whether he wants to have a car or not.  He thinks that if he uses a car, he will use a lot of gas, which costs a lot of money and also it makes environment pollution.  He can use buses instead of using a car. At the end, he decided to not to buy a car, and he uses buses and bicycles.


2. Mathematical concepts in the book
At first, the bunny was wondering get electricity car or regular car. Electricity is clean, but two times expensive compare to use gas. However, gas will cause a lot of air pollution. Bunny considers those negative parts and he decided to buy bicycled instead of buying a car. I think this story tells about a concept of fixed costs as we did in the section of  the function. This story makes the reader think which choice is beneficial to the bunny.


3.  Explain in your own words why you believe the literature is an effective way to teach/learn a mathematical concept.I think learning mathematical concepts of literature is an effective way to acquire them, because  mathematics always somehow related to our daily life. The book, "If I Had A Car", I think it is a typical situation we face in daily life. Personally, I like to study something which connects to my daily life or something I might use in the future.  And literature also makes us easy to understand mathematical concepts more easily rather than explain by complicated mathematical theory.