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Math You Can Really Use--Every Day

Math You Can Really Use—Every Day skips mind-numbing theory and tiresome drills and gets right down to basic math that helps you do real-world stuff like figuring how much to tip, getting the best deals shopping, computing your gas mileage, and more. This is not your typical, dry math textbook. With a comfortable, easygoing approach, it:

  • Covers math you'll need for balancing your checkbook, choosing or managing credit cards, comparing options for mortgages, insurance, and investments, and more

  • Includes the basics on fractions, decimals, percentages, measurements, and geometric math

  • Clues you in on simple shortcuts

  • Includes examples plus pop quizzes with answers to help you solidify your understanding

  • Features tear-out guides you can take with you for tipping and converting measurements

Want to know how much 20% off is in dollars and cents? Want to figure out how much gas is going to cost for your road trip? This is the math book you'll really use!

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Title of ebook: Math You Can Really Use--Every Day
ISBN: 9780470149508
Publisher: Cliffs Notes
Internet download file size: 3292 kb
Pages: 216
Released online for download: 04-18-2007
Author of eBook: Herzog, David Alan

Math You Can Really Use-Every Day


Chapter One

Close Enough

When we learned math in school we really learned it backward. Our mathematics education-particularly our arithmetic education-began with the least important numbers and worked through the years to get us to the more important ones. I guess that follows the theory of having to learn to walk before you can run and defers to the lower capacity of the young child's mind to grasp more complex models. Historically, mankind probably began to be concerned with numbers when the idea of ownership of livestock began, or maybe even while we were still hunters and gatherers. The first three numbers were probably designated by one finger for 1, two fingers for 2, and a whole hand's worth of fingers for many, to designate how many wooly mammoths were ambling into hunting range. I can't conceive of a need for a more specific greater number th ... read full excerpt from Math You Can Really Use--Every Day ebook



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