All the math you'll ever need A self-teaching guide
Book - 2022
"All the Math You'll Ever Need, Third Edition is a practical, accessible guide that helps readers understand mathematical concepts that directly apply to daily life tasks. From learning to calculate monthly mortgage payments and time to pay off a credit card balance, this book helps readers understand how and why mathematical concepts work. This revised edition will reflect recent changes in rates, prices, and wages. It will also incorporate information on intelligent and efficient use of calculators and introduce mental math techniques that improve estimation skills. The primary addition to this revision is a new statistics chapter that features basic coverage of measures of spread and understanding common graphs"--
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- Published
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Hoboken, NJ :
Jossey-Bass, a Wiley brand
[2022]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- Third edition
- Item Description
- Revised edition of: All the math you'll ever need by Steve Slavin. Revised edition c1999.
Includes index. - Physical Description
- xi, 316 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBN
- 9781119719182
- How to Use This Book
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Getting Started
- 2. Essential Arithmetic
- Addition
- Multiplication
- Subtraction
- Division
- 3. Focus on Multiplication
- The Multiplication Table
- Learning the Multiplication Table
- Testing Your Knowledge
- About Long Multiplication
- Practice Exercises with Two Digits
- Multiplying Three Digits
- Four-Digit Multiplication
- Word Problems with Multiplication
- 4. Focus on Division
- Short Division
- Long Division
- Word Problems with Division
- 5. Mental Math
- Fast Multiplication
- Fast Division
- How Are You Doing So Far?
- Mental Math Tricks
- 6. Positive and Negative Numbers
- What Are Negative Numbers?
- Adding Positive and Negative Numbers
- Subtracting Positive and Negative Numbers
- Multiplying Positive and Negative Numbers
- Division with Positive and Negative Numbers
- 7. Fractions
- Changing the Look of Fractions
- Adding Fractions
- Subtracting Fractions
- Multiplying by Fractions
- Dividing by Fractions
- Cancelling
- 8. Decimals
- Adding and Subtracting with Decimals
- Multiplying with Decimals
- Dividing with Decimals
- 9. Converting Fractions and Decimals
- Converting Fractions into Decimals
- Converting Decimals into Fractions
- Simplifying Fractions
- Repeating Decimals
- Non-Terminating Decimals
- 10. Ratios and Proportions
- Ratios
- Proportions
- 11. Solving Problems
- Words and Fractions
- Word Problems with Money
- 12. Area and Perimeter
- Areas of Rectangles
- When We Use Area
- Perimeters of Rectangles
- Areas of Triangles
- 13. Circumference and Area
- Circumference of a Circle
- The Area of a Circle
- 14. Percentages
- Fractions, Decimals, andPercents
- Percent Change
- Fast Percent Change
- Percent Distribution
- Tipping
- 15. Solving Simple Equations
- The Care and Treatment of Equations
- Isolating x
- Addition and Subtraction with x
- Multiplication and Division with x
- Fractions and Decimals in Equations
- Negative Numbers
- Multi-Step Equations
- 16. Powers and Roots
- Exponents
- Roots
- Advanced Problems
- 17. Very Large and Very Small Numbers
- Writing Large Numbers
- Scientific Notation
- Millions, Billions, Trillions, and Beyond
- Multiplying Large Numbers
- Dividing Large Numbers
- Scientific Notation for Very Small Numbers
- 18. Algebra Problems
- Age Problems
- Finding the Numbers
- Mixture Problems
- 19. Interest Rates
- Simple Interest
- Compound Interest
- A Word on Continuous Compounding
- Doubling Time: The Rule of 70
- Discounting
- 20. Rate, Time, and Distance
- The Magic Formula
- The Terms
- Finding Distance
- Finding Rate
- Finding Time
- Rate, Time, and Distance Problems
- Speed Limit Problems
- 21. Personal Finance
- Mark-Down Problems
- Sales Tax Problems
- Credit Cards
- Federal Income Tax
- Mortgage Interest and Taxes
- 22. Business Math
- Commissions
- Mark-Ups
- Discounting from List Price
- Quantity Discounts
- 2/10 n/30
- Chain Discounts
- Profit
- 23. A Taste of Statistics
- Distributions of Data
- Measures of Center
- Measures of Spread
- Estimating
- 24. Review
- Index
