Everyday Math for Dummies

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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.

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Provides Much Helpful Information.......2007-08-11

My son picked up "Everyday Math for Dummies" at the library. He saw the word "Math" and had to have it. Once he saw that it contained more words than numbers, however, he put it down. As I flipped through it I decided I would bring it home anyway, if only for the chapter on balancing your checkbook, a task I have always struggled to master. This is actually a very good book, providing an introduction to the Math that you wish that they would teach you in school - like how to balance a checkbook, figure out compound interest (OK - I think they taught that one in school but it had little real-world applicability at that point), and how to understand stock values and mortgage rates. And for those of you who really want to understand what they wanted to teach you in Algebra and Trig, it provides sections on that as well (I'll admit I skipped over those). I read the reviews on Amazon and some mentioned that it wasn't simple enough. I can understand that. You do need some understanding of basic math to get this book - adding, subtraction, multiplication, division, and percentages are all taken for granted here. Still, it was very interesting and helped explain some topics that had eluded me for years.

A lot of marginally useful arithmetic.......2007-05-20

I was looking for a book that reviewed basic math(i.e. grammar school multiplication, fractions, decimals, percentages, etc.) This book covered topics such as mortgages, how to calculate tips, etc. It wasn't a match.

Peter Roth's Book Review.......2006-07-26

All-in-all, a good book. I still had some difficulty in reading the author's explanations.

Everyday Math for Dummies.......2006-03-14

it is a very good book for helping your children with there math home work

Not Everyday Math For Dummies.......2005-04-17

It is really ironic that this book starts off about how most people don't finish the books they pick up, because that's exactly what I did with this. Why? The author made no effort to show every single step of his mathematical equations, making it confusing after awhile to understand his babbling about things like percentages and annuities. It is obviously not written for "dummies", but for those who are either in a math class right now or have superior math skills already. Also upon looking through the book I could not understand why most people would even care about most of the things written about in this book. I'd say do the math and save your money!

Math Magic: How to Master Everyday Math Problems, Revised Edition

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Not for Teaching Kids!!!
Good book even though it comes up short in some areas...
Boost for Math Dummies
Well written book
Great to improve your math and impress your friends

Math Magic: How to Master Everyday Math Problems, Revised Edition
Scott Flansburg , and Victoria Hay
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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ASIN: 0060726350
Release Date: 2004-07-27

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Don't live in fear of math any longer.
Math Magic makes math what you may never have
imagined it to be: easy and fun!

Scott Flansburg -- "the Human Calculator" who believes that there are no "mathematical illiterates," just people who have not learned how to make math work for them -- demonstrates how everyone can put their phobia to rest and deal with essential every-day mathematical calculations with confidence. This is the book for millions of otherwise successful adults who are afraid to balance their checkbooks and don't know how to figure interest on savings or credit, and for the millions of students who dread their math classes and live in fear of the SAT math section.

In Math Magic, Scott Flansburg shows the reader how to:

Master the basics, including the real way addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division work
Simplify calculations through estimation
Quick-check answers
Convert metric measures to more familiar ones
Figure tips, taxes, and percentages -- never get short-changed again!
Master algebra using the nine easy steps to algebra

Math Magic is for all of us who need and want to improve our understanding of math. With the help of Flansburg, the Guinness World Record holder as the Fastest Human Calculator, you can do math just like magic.

Customer Reviews:

Not for Teaching Kids!!!.......2006-04-23

This book is inadequate to explore the concepts that it puts forward, and the reader will not be able to use it effectively until they go through and fill in the wide gaps left by the author. The techniques within it are not universal to all numbers, and the author fails to mention this on numerous occasions. All in all, this book was designed to make money, while offering the illusion of "cheating" your way through math. Some methods within it are useful, while others only overcomplicate, and ultimately undermine, standard education techniques for mathematics, the standard way oftentimes being the more accurate, and quicker, way to do the examples within. Math is hard, sure, and that does make a lot of people hate it, but this book will make you hate it more, at least until you figure out what a scam it is.

Good book even though it comes up short in some areas..........2003-07-03

I wanted to read this book ever since seeing the infomercial of Scott doing his thing on tv. I couldn't afford or justify the expense to buy the big commerical package so this book had to do. The methods are easy to follow and Mr. Flansburg does a good job expressing his mind set in how he mentally did the problems. The basic addition and multiplications methods are good but the examples were insufficient when dealing with mixed numbers of different lengths. There were also exceptions to many of the rules that weren't expressed. Finally, the last part of the book with special rules were so numerious it would take a year to effectively learn and apply them all from memory. This leads me to believe that Mr. Flansburg didn't tell everything he knows, like the quick way to determine change -- by changing say ten bucks to 9.99 and subtracting that from the amount owed; then add one cent to get the correct change. It's easier to subtract 9 since its the highest value you can have in each column. This was presented by him on a night time radio show he was a guest on. I do give him prasie for getting people young and old to stop depending on calculators and learn mental speed math.

Boost for Math Dummies.......2002-07-28

A reading of this book quickly reveals our public education system as stodgy and nonprogressive. If you or anyone you know is having problems with math of any kind, please spend a little money on this book before spending a ton of money on tutors and such! If I'd had this book, or been exposed to the information therein, when I was in k-12, my math scores would have been much higher!

Well written book.......2002-04-23

This book is well written and easy to read. It is a really great book and gives insights into various interesting methods to calculate rapidly. However, Mr.Flansburg and Ms. Hay seems to claim that these methods are either theirs, or Japanese. They fail to give proper reference. This preposterous misrepresentation is possibly due to their sheer ignorance or intentional need to hide the real source. In reality, these fast methods were invented during the Vedic Period in India around 400 B.C. One can refer to all these and more methods in "Vedic Mathematics or Sixteen Simple Mathematical Formulae from the Vedas", by Sri Bharati Krishna Tirthanji at Amazon.com. Nevertheless, the credit should be given to these authors for putting these concepts in a easy to understand format and encouraging kids to learn math....

Great to improve your math and impress your friends.......2001-12-18

I bought this for my kids to help them in school. They loved the tips and tricks and actually started really liking math. Can't beat that! I just bought another for my Dad since he loves brain teasers and math tricks. This is a great book for people of all ages and math skill levels. Something for everyone here.

The Only Math Book You'll Ever Need, Revised Edition: Hundreds of Easy Solutions and Shortcuts for Mastering Everyday Numbers

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disappointed
It adds up...
Good for the occasional reference
A good book for Pre Algebra and fun to read

The Only Math Book You'll Ever Need, Revised Edition: Hundreds of Easy Solutions and Shortcuts for Mastering Everyday Numbers
Stanley Kogelman , and Barbara R. Heller
Manufacturer: Collins
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From balancing the checkbook to figuring out how long to cook a turkey, this revised edition of the incredible bestselling math guide (100,000 copies sold) provides easy answers to everyday practical math problems.

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disappointed.......2006-07-19

Not what I was looking for, small print and not easy shortcuts. I know how to do the math the long method. I was looking for things you can do in your head for a rough estimate.

It adds up..........2004-09-09

As a student in college and graduate school, I had far more math than this small book covers, so in fact it is not the be-all and end-all of all mathematics texts. Alas, there is not a quadratic equation or a Fibonacci number listed in the index, nor will one find here the secrets to factoring polynomial equations. However, as my students in Algebra have often observed, one very rarely has to do those sorts of things in 'real life' (with the less than delicately phrased question, 'When am I ever going to need this...?').

For most everyday purposes, however, this is an entertaining and generally non-threatening overview of mathematics principles. There are three main sections: The Mathematics of Personal Finance (money matters!); Outdoor Math; and Indoor Math. In the first section on personal finance, the authors Kogelman and Heller look at the primary uses of math in most people's lives - how to figure out raises and taxes; how to understand bank addition and subtraction, particularly as it relates to balancing the checkbook; how to figure out returns on investments; and how to calculate interest on loans, from mortgages and automobiles to credit cards. This book will in many instances save the reader more than its purchase price. The information adds up!

The second section, Outdoor Math, includes issues as diverse as sport and travel to restaurant dining and gambling. How do you calculate a tip? If the menu says that a 15% or 18% gratuity is added, how can you be sure it was done correctly? If you travel, how do you make sure your exchange rate for money is a fair one? In the games and gambling section, the authors do not give you a perfect plan for counting cards at blackjack or beating the house at Atlantic City, but they do give you some insight into probabilities and risks. Odds are that this section will help.

For the final section, Indoor Math, the authors again return to some crucial, everyday applications. How does one figure out if bills are done correctly? Are you really using that much gas and electricity? Do you save anything by closing a room or shutting off the hot water heater part of the day? Also, practical matters like figuring the square foot measurements for carpeting, comparison shopping for better values involving math, and understanding news reports and media (just what is the difference between 'average income' and 'median income', anyway?).

Kogelman and Heller write in an interesting and accessible way, without jargon and without abstraction -- everything is grounded in real-world applications and is meaningful to the reader. Math can be your friend! This is a good companion.

Good for the occasional reference.......2003-03-13

I don't use this book much but it is good for the occasional reference. I used it for the Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion when my baby was running a fever and the only thermometer I could find was Celsius.

A good book for Pre Algebra and fun to read.......2000-10-17

I wouldn't say it's the only math book you need but it has a lot math facts for student starting Algebra and for Grow ups to it's one of those around the house math books but kids well learn there math from this book

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"Everyday" Math, Definitely Not "Basic" Math
Should be "Everyday Math Mystified"
Math that Every Adult Should Know

Everyday Math Demystified
Stan Gibilisco
Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Professional
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"Everyday" Math, Definitely Not "Basic" Math.......2006-10-09

About six months ago I purchased both "Everyday Math Demystified" and "Pre-Algebra Demystified" at the same time. I was just finishing up the tail end of an Associate Degree in business studies, and was thinking about switching things up a bit for a Bachelor's.

When I received both books, I made the decision to dive into the "Everyday Math" book first, thinking it would be the most likely choice for a good mathematic foundation - what a mistake that was!

As soon as I took a look at the first chapter, I knew I was in for some trouble. Right off the bat, the book used explanations that were WAY to advanced and confusing for someone just starting out. After struggling through the first few chapters, I quickly became discouraged and neglected my extracurricular algebraic studies, without even bothering to take a look at the second Demystified book I had purchased.

Months later, for reasons still unknown to me, I was compelled to pick up the "Pre-Algebra Demystified" book and give it a crack. To my extreme delight and surprise, this book was actually helpful! The book used simpler, more straight-forward explanations, and included a little bit of everything; from basic math and ratios, to geometry, basic equations, and graphing - simply stated, this book was everything that the "Everyday Math" book was thought to be but wasn't!

After going through my "Pre-Algebra Demystified" book, I was a satisfied enough customer to go ahead and purchase "Algebra Demystified" since these books seem to be progressive and build on one another. Perhaps after reading the second algebra book, my "Everyday Math" book might start making some sense!

In conclusion, if you are wanting to purchase a study guide for core math skills and build a solid foundation for more advanced mathematics such as trigonometry and linear algebra, "Pre-Algebra Demystified" in my opinion would make a far more superior choice. The lay-out and explanations are excellent, and the little quizzes and exams they throw in there really do help out as well.

Should be "Everyday Math Mystified".......2005-12-15

I haven't studied math in many years, and I wanted to freshen up my skills. I was never a math wiz, but I'm certainly competent at the basics. When you get beyond the basics, my brain starts hurting a bit though. Unfortunately, this book is so poorly written that even the basics made my brain hurt.

First off, contrary to what the title and cover suggest, this book contains almost no information on the basics. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are all covered in less then a page and a half. But don't get your hopes up... He doesn't actually tell you how to DO multiplication (for example). He tells you that multiplication is represented by a "x". The actual process of doing multiplication is apparently left as an excercise for the reader.

Ok, no problem. Like I said, I'm pretty good on the basics, I wanted something a bit more advanced anyway. Unfortunately, what information is here is presented so badly that you pretty much need to be a mathmetician to read it (in which case you probably don't need this book). Take the section on primes from p. 12: "Let p be a nonzero natural number. Suppose ab = p, where a and b are natural numbers. Further suppose that either of the following statements are true for all a and b: (a = 1) & (b = p) or (a = p) & (b = 1). Then p is considered a prime number. In other words, a natural number p is prime if and only if it's two natural number factors are 1 and itself". That's demystifying? Primes are a pretty simple topic, but you'd never guess it from that definition. I have since picked up a different book "Math the Easy Way" (by Anthony Prindle) which has this to say on the subject: "A prime number is a whole number whose only divisors are 1 and itself". Not only is this definiton MUCH more clear, it's less then a quarter the length. If the goal is to demystify a subject, you should use the least complicated language possible to effectively explain the subject, and this book fails miserably on that front.

This may be a great book if you are already well versed in moderately advanced math. If you're looking for a more basic math refresher, this will not do you any good at all. I havn't read much of Math the Easy Way yet, but so far it's been head & shoulders above this at demystifing everday math for me.

Math that Every Adult Should Know.......2004-06-05

As an educator (retired), I got an advance copy of this book. My first reaction was, "This is everyday math?!" Then in the third chapter it hit me: This is not necessarily what everyone knows (if that was the case, there would be no need for the book). It's what every American adult should know by the time they graduate from high school. Sadly, given the state of math education in this country, this book probably should have the subtitle "in an Ideal World." I recommend that anyone who wants to really understand math, and not just rush through it as some sort of evil necessity, study this book thoroughly -- after, or in addition to, their high school courses. And don't fret the abstract stuff. Math is abstract by its very nature.

Merriam-Webster's Pocket Guide to Business and Everyday Math (Pocket Reference Library)

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better understanding
A handy reference book.

Merriam-Webster's Pocket Guide to Business and Everyday Math (Pocket Reference Library)
Brian Burrell
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Quick help with math questions! Take-along format fits easily into a briefcase, schoolbag, or pocket. Helps with common problems, including bookkeeping, investing, ratios, statistics, and household math. Provides easy-to-apply solutions. Includes tables and formulas.

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better understanding.......2007-03-09

I purchased this little gem to help me to understand math formulas better. This little book has cleared up some of my "problems".

A handy reference book........1999-08-29

Book outlines everyday math concepts and examples that can be understood and applied by the reader. Excellent little book ever. Worth every penny.

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Builders Math 2

Everyday Math for the Building Trades
James Gerhart
Manufacturer: Mcgraw-Hill
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ASIN: 0070242666

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Instant answers to on-site math problems. Next time you go out on a job, make sure you pack James Gerhart's Everyday Math for Contractors in your toolbox. This easy-access resource gives you fast answers for practically any day-to-day, on-site calculation problem. Say goodbye to inaccurate, money wasting materials estimates or design calculations. Now-in seconds-you can determine how much material you need to build a wall... figure out the amount of paint required to do an office... calculate stair riser elevations... even perform complex roofpitch calculations. Ideal for builders, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, HVAC contractors, and roofers, this go-anywhere advisor gives you easy-to-remember tips and tricks for performing both routine and complex calculations.

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Builders Math 2.......2007-01-12

A good reference book. Have used it often. There are a few things that are not included, so don't think this will answer all your questions.

Everyday Mathematics: Student Math Journal Grade 3 Volume 2

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Everyday Mathematics: Student Math Journal Grade 3 Volume 2
Max Bell
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Everyday Mathematics: Student Math Journal 2

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Use Your Fingers, Use Your Toes: Quick and Easy Step-By-Step Solutions to Your Everyday Math Problems (Capital Ideas Book)

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Great reference book

Use Your Fingers, Use Your Toes: Quick and Easy Step-By-Step Solutions to Your Everyday Math Problems (Capital Ideas Book)
Beth Norcross
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'Use Your Fingers, Use Your Toes' offers relief to millions of math-phobes who, while generally bright and educated, panic when faced with an everyday math problem. Included are common, but puzzling problems such as adjusting recipes, calculating calorie counts and fat grams, measuring for new carpets, drapes and wallpaper, figuring percentage discounts, mortgage interest, taxes, sports statistics, miles per gallon, and, of course, tipping. The book moves at the pace of today’s busy lifestyle. By reading through the clear step-by-step solution to a given problem, the reader can solve the problem in as little as five minutes. Other books concentrate on reteaching math; this book concentrates on offering quick, accessible, example-oriented solutions for today’s busy lifestyles.

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Great reference book.......2004-04-20

This is a great reference book. It's saving me alot of time and aggravation. It's easy to find what you're looking for, get an understandable answer, and be on your way. It simplifies things so they're easily doable using real life situations which is very helpful. An added bonus is that they put a quick reference appendix in the back that's absolutely wonderful.

Everyday Mathematics Math Masters Grade 5

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Everyday Mathematics Math Masters Grade 5
Max Bell
Manufacturer: SRA McGraw Hill
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ASIN: 0076000419

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math masters for Grade 5 each page is performated to tear out easily.

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