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50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know
In 50 Maths Ideas You Really Need to Know, Professor Tony Crilly explains in 50 clear and concise essays the mathematical concepts - ancient and modern, theoretical and practical, everyday and esoteric - that allow us to understand and shape the world around us.
Ace Your Midterms & Finals Fundamentals of Mathematics
In this one-of-a-kind test preparation guide, you'll discover: 10 midterms and 10 final exams from colleges just like yours; Real-world practice on real-life exams; A complete and concise review of your entire mathematics course; Savvy advice from the teachers who teach the courses; Plus effective methods for mastering mathematics.
All the Math You'll Ever Need
A sharp mind, like a healthy body, is subject to the same rule of nature: Use it or lose it Need a calculator just to work out a 15 percent service charge? Not exactly sure how to get the calculator to give you the figure you need? Turn to this revised and updated edition of All the Math You'll Ever Need, the friendliest, funniest, and easiest workout program around. In no time, you'll have total command of all the powerful mathematical tools needed to make numbers work for you. In a dollars-and-cents, bottom-line world, where numbers influence everything, none of us can afford to let our math skills atrophy. This step-by-step personal math trainer: Refreshes practical math skills for your personal and professional needs, with examples based on everyday situations. Offers straightforward techniques for working with decimals and fractions. Demonstrates simple ways to figure discounts, calculate mortgage interest rates, and work out time, rate, and distance problems. Contains no complex formulas and no unnecessary technical terms.
Basic Math and Pre-Algebra
Cover the essentials of your toughest classes. Get a firm grip on core concepts and key material, and test your newfound knowledge with review questions. Whether you're new to fractions, decimals, and percentages or just brushing up on those topics, this book is helpful.
Basic Math and Pre-Algebra
All of the courses in the junior high, high school and college mathematics curriculum require a grounding in certain fundamentals, knowledge of mathematical principles required for algebra, geometry, or any other discipline beyond the bare essentials, as well as knowledge of techniques for working problems and manipulating the elements of mathematical formulas and other tools. This text aims to give students the help they need to master these fundamental techniques, give them a solid understanding of how basic mathematics works, and prepare them to perform well in any further mathematics courses they take.
Basic Math and Pre-Algebra for Dummies®
Tips for simplifying tricky basic math and pre-algebra operations Whether you're a student preparing to take algebra or a parent who wants or needs to brush up on basic math, this fun, friendly guide has the tools you need to get in gear. From positive, negative, and whole numbers to fractions, decimals, and percents, you'll build necessary math skills to tackle more advanced topics, such as imaginary numbers, variables, and algebraic equations. Explanations and practical examples that mirror today's teaching methods Relevant cultural vernacular and references Standard For Dummies materials that match the current standard and design Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies takes the intimidation out of tricky operations and helps you get ready for algebra!
Basic Math Refresher, Everyday Math for Everyday People
Do You Need Extra Help with Math? Then REA's Basic Math Refresher is perfect for you!Updated Second Edition REA's newest edition of our popular Basic Math Refresher helps students and adults refresh their math knowledge in a fast and easy-to-understand format. It's everyday math for everyday people. Citing real-life situations and using hundreds of example problems, Stephen Hearne's Basic Math Refresher is perfect for anyone who needs to grasp the concepts of basic mathematics. It's a fast and easy way to learn basic math! This handy reference book explains the basics of commonly used math topics, including addition, decimals, percentages, fractions, averages, sales tax, and more. It's a great tool to have on hand when preparing for homework, quizzes, or exams. If you are an adult who wants to brush up on your math skills you'll find it an easy-to-use resource. The book includes hundreds of math examples solved step-by-step and a glossary of must-know math terms. Each chapter is devoted to a specific math topic and explains basic math functions in a simple style. Numerous examples show students and adults how to solve math problems quickly and correctly. Basic Math Refresher is an excellent classroom reference book and/or textbook supplement. The easy-to-follow format is perfect for middle school, high school, and college students who need a simple math refresher. Adults who need help with basic math will view it as a practical guide to math concepts they have forgotten or never fully grasped in school. If you're math phobic, or just need to refresh your math skills, this book is for you!　
Guide to Essential Math
This book reminds students in junior, senior and graduate level courses in physics, chemistry and engineering of the math they may have forgotten (or learned imperfectly) that is needed to succeed in science courses. The focus is on math actually used in physics, chemistry, and engineering, and the approach to mathematics begins with 12 examples of increasing complexity, designed to hone the student's ability to think in mathematical terms and to apply quantitative methods to scientific problems. Detailed illustrations and links to reference material online help further comprehension. The second edition features new problems and illustrations and features expanded chapters on matrix algebra and differential equations. Use of proven pedagogical techniques developed during the author's 40 years of teaching experience New practice problems and exercises to enhance comprehension Coverage of fairly advanced topics, including vector and matrix algebra, partial differential equations, special functions and complex variables
Master Math: Solving Word Problems
Get ready to master the unknown number! Master Math: Solving Word Problems is a comprehensive reference guide that explains and clarifies the difficulties people often face with word problems, in a simple, easy-to-follow style and format. Beginning with the most basic types of word problems and progressing through to the more advanced, Solving Word Problems shows you how to focus first on the words in the problem, and then on the numbers, breaking down the problem into smaller segments to help you work through. Using familiar situationsfrom everyday life such as percents and discounts, interest, motion and speed, and probability, each type of word problem is taught using step-by-step procedures, solutions, and examples. And end-of-chapter problems will help you practice what you learned. A complete table of contents and a comprehensive index enable you to quickly find specific topics, and the approachable style and format facilitate an understanding of what can be intimidating and tricky skills. Perfect for both students who need some extra help or rusty professionals who want to brush up, Solving Word Problems will help you master everything from simple equations and percents to statistics and probability!
Master Math: Solving Word Problems
Students throughout the world fear and dread solving word problems. As students' reading skills have declined, so have their abilities to solve word problems. This book offers solutions to the most standard and non-standard word problems available. It follows the suggestions of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and incorporates the types of problems usually found on standardized math tests (PSAT, SAT, and others).
Math Word Problems Demystified
This book teaches proven methods for analyzing and solving any type of math word problem -- the most difficult part of any math course -- and the most important to both the SATs and other standardized tests.
The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics
From algebra to number theory, statistics to mechanics, this versatile and completely updated reference takes in all branches of pure and applied mathematics.
Practical Math Success in 20 Minutes a Day
Practical Math Success: In 20 Minutes a Day, 2nd edition takes a fresh approach to arithmetic, elementary algebra, and geometry with a quick and easy 20-step program designed to dramatically increase math skills in just four weeks Practice examples and exercises, an introductory diagnostic test to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses, and a section specifically tailored to the standardized test-taker are just some of the unique features of this comprehensive skill-builder.
The Princeton Companion to Mathematics
Introduces basic mathematical tools and vocabulary; traces the development of modern mathematics; explains essential terms and concepts; examines core ideas in major areas of mathematics; describes the achievements of scores of famous mathematicians; and explores the impact of mathematics on other disciplines such as biology, finance, and music.
Teach Yourself: Basic Mathematics: An Introduction
Do you shy away from using numbers? Basic Mathematics can help. An easy-to-follow guide, it will ensure you gain the confidence you need to tackle math and overcome your fears.
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Arithmetic the Easy Way
Everybody uses arithmetic on virtually a daily basis, and this book serves as a handy brush-up for general readers while it also helps students master basic skills that they need before moving up to high-school-level math and beyond. It reviews addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, then moves on to calculating with fractions, decimals, and percentages. A concluding chapter reviews units of measurement and word problems. Chapters are filled with short practice exercises, all of which are answered at the back of the book. The book features many tables, charts, and line illustrations. Barron's Easy Way books introduce a variety of academic and practical subjects to students and general readers in clear, understandable language. Ideal as self-teaching manuals for readers interested in learning a new career-related skill, these books have also found widespread classroom use as supplementary texts and brush-up test-preparation guides. Subject heads and key phrases that need to be learned are set in a second color.
Basic Math and Pre-Algebra
All of the courses in the junior high, high school and college mathematics curriculum require a grounding in certain fundamentals, knowledge of mathematical principles required for algebra, geometry, or any other discipline beyond the bare essentials, as well as knowledge of techniques for working problems and manipulating the elements of mathematical formulas and other tools. This text aims to give students the help they need to master these fundamental techniques, give them a solid understanding of how basic mathematics works, and prepare them to perform well in any further mathematics courses they take.
Everyday Math for Dummies
After you graduated from high school, college, or even graduate school you might have vowed never to deal with math again, right? But everyday, you're faced with some form of math, from balancing your checkbook to tipping your server at a restaurant. Well, there's no reason to be intimidated when it comes to math, and this book will show you why. Everyday Math for Dummies is intended to be a quick, enjoyable adult-oriented course in the aspects of math you need all the time. Whether you're looking for a refresher on math skills you might have forgotten or want to obtain math skills you never fully understood, Everyday Math For Dummies can help you discover the answers to all kinds of problems. Everyday Math For Dummies helps build your skills so that you can better deal with all sorts of stressful math situations, from refinancing your house to evaluating business news and understanding sports statistics. There's even a fun chapter on puzzles! With this book as your guide, you'll be able to: Finally make sense of your checkbook Master the simplest tipping rules in the world Calculate compound interest like an investment pro Understand the math of refinancing and debt management Decipher the fine print in a credit card agreement Figure percentages easily with a calculator, on paper, or in your head Get a handle on all that stuff from high school-algebra, geometry, and trig Everyday Math For Dummies can help you take charge of your life. Complete with a tear-out cheat sheet for you to keep handy for when the kids need help with their homework or you need help completing your tax return, this book makes math easy.
The Everything Guide to Pre-Algebra / A Helpful Practice Guide Through the Pre-Algebra Basics-- in Plain English!
Master the building blocks of mathematics! Not everyone is born a math whiz. Sometimes, all you need is a little extra help and practice to improve your comprehension. If you're a student encountering complex math for the first time, a parent wanting to help with homework, or an adult returning to school, The Everything Guide to Pre-Algebra is perfect for you. This essential guide uses simple explanations, step-by-step examples, and lots of review exercises to cover all the pre-algebra basics, including: Rational and irrational numbers Fractions, decimals, and percents Variables and functions Expressions and equations Number properties Inequalities Absolute values Plane geometry With unique study strategies and proven test-taking tips, The Everything Guide to Pre-Algebra will help boost your math knowledge--and your confidence--one right answer at a time.
Math for the Frightened : Facing Scary Symbols and Everything Else That Freaks You Out About Mathematics
There's something about a language of symbols and equations that most people find intimidating. Mathematician Colin Pask gently introduces you to the main ideas of mathematics and painlessly demonstrates how they are expressed in terms of symbols. He teaches the reader not only why symbols are used, and how and why equations are constructed, but also exactly what is achieved by doing that. Through simple yet intriguing examples in number theory, Pask generates confidence in thinking mathematically and reveals the pleasure of seeing how mathematical patterns evolve and are explored.
Pre-Algebra Demystified
Preempt your anxiety about PRE-ALGEBRA! Ready to learn math fundamentals but can't seem to get your brain to function? No problem! Add Pre-Algebra Demystified, Second Edition, to the equation and you'll solve your dilemma in no time. Written in a step-by-step format, this practical guide begins by covering whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, and percents. You'll move on to expressions, equations, measurement, and graphing. Operations with monomials and polynomials are also discussed. Detailed examples, concise explanations, and worked problems make it easy to understand the material, and end-of-chapter quizzes and a final exam help reinforce learning. It's a no-brainer! You'll learn: Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, integers, fractions, decimals, and algebraic expressions Techniques for solving equations and problems Measures of length, weight, capacity, and time Methods for plotting points and graphing lines Simple enough for a beginner, but challenging enough for an advanced student, Pre-Algebra Demystified, Second Edition, helps you master this essential mathematics subject. It's also the perfect way to review the topic if all you need is a quick refresh.
U Can : Basic Math & Pre-Algebra for Dummies
The fun and friendly guide to really understanding math U Can: Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies is the fun, friendly guide to making sense of math. It walks you through the "how" and "why" to help you master the crucial operations that underpin every math class you'll ever take. With no-nonsense lessons, step-by-step instructions, practical examples, and plenty of practice, you'll learn how to manipulate non-whole numbers, tackle pesky fractions, deal with weights and measures, simplify algebraic expressions, and so much more. The "learn it ? do it" style helps you move at your own pace, with lesson-sized explanations, examples, and practice. You also get access to 1,001 more practice problems online, where you can create customized quizzes and study the topics where you need the most help. Math can be hard ? and the basics in U Can: Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies lay the foundation for classes down the line. Consider this resource as your guide to math mastery, with step-by-step help for learning to: Put numbers in their place Make sense of fractions, decimals, and percents Get a grasp of basic geometry Simplify basic algebraic equations Believe it or not, math can be fun! And the better you understand it now, the more likely you are to do well in school, earn a degree, and get a good job. U Can: Basic Math & Pre-Algebra For Dummies gives you the skills, understanding, and confidence you need to conquer math once and for all.
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