Everyday Math for Everyday Life: A Handbook for When It Just Doesn't Add Up
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Book Description
Your dinner bill came to $78.35, plus tip, divided amongst you and two friends. So how did you end up paying $50? In life, there are plenty of instances where a quick calculation would come in handy. Contrary to popular belief, the ability to calculate a tip, eyeball square area, or convert kilometers to miles-without using your fingers or moving your lips-is not inborn. Everyday math skills can be painlessly learned and easily mastered, transforming you from a person who doesn't know the meaning of APR into someone who understands credit card rates and their long-term impact on your wallet. Broken into sections which review basic arithmetic from fractions to percents, provide situational problems from cooking to gambling, and demystify terms from statistics to relative magnitude to probability, this is the one guide that anyone who took "Math for English majors" can't live without.
About the Author
A graduate of Brown University and the University of Wisconsin Law School, Mark Ryan has been teaching math for over 12 years. He runs the Math Center in Winnetka, Illinois, where he teaches high school math courses and a workshop for parents based on his book, The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Math Students. In high school, he twice scored a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT, and he not only knows mathematics, he has a gift for explaining it in plain English. You'll enjoy his down-to-earth style, his humor, and his many useful math tips and shortcuts that will enable you to DO THE MATH. A tournament backgammon player and an avid skier and tennis player, he lives in Chicago.
Everyday Math for Everyday Life: A Handbook for When It Just Doesn't Add Up,Mark Ryan,Warner Books,0446677264,General,Mathematics,Popular works,Self-Help,Self-Help / General
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