Everyday Math Demystified

A Self-teaching Guide

Stan Gibilisco

442 pages, parution le 01/07/2004

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It all adds up: a great new method for learning real-world math

Now anyone with an interest in the math of daily life can gain a deeper understanding. Everyday Math Demystified provides an effective, fun, and totally painless way to improve your understanding and mastery of the math you find in newspapers, on TV, at the bank or store, on vacation, in school -- and just about everywhere.

With Everyday Math Demystified, you master the subject one simple step at a time - at your own speed. This unique self-teaching guide helps you decipher such topics as numbers and arithmetic, measurements, and fractions and graphs, and puts them into the context of real-life situations you're sure to encounter.

If you want to build or refresh your everyday math skills, heres a fast and entertaining self-teaching course thats specially designed to reduce anxiety. Get ready to:

Review arithmetic, ratios, proportions, money issues, international units, and scientific notation
Master equations, solve for unknowns, and figure odds
Calculate size, shape, and volume
Read and create graphs in two and three dimensions
Conquer scientific and engineering math, such as logarithms, exponents, angles, magnitude and direction, and rates of change
Take a final exam and grade it yourself!

Simple enough for real beginners but challenging enough for math-savvy readers, Everyday Math Demystified is your direct route to learning or brushing up on the mathematical aspects of daily life.

Sommaire

How quantities are expressed
- Arithmetic, Ratios, and Proportions
- Working with Money
- The International System of Units
- Scientific Notation
- Test: Part One
Solving for unknowns
- Linear Equations
- Nonlinear Equations
- Multivariable Equations
- Probability and Statistics
- Test: Part Two
Shape, size, and orientation
- Perimeter and Area
- Surface Area and Volume
- Graphs in Two Dimensions
- Graphs in Three Dimensions
- Test: Part Three
Science and engineering
- Logarithms and Exponentials
- Angles and Distances
- Magnitudes and Directions
- Rates of Change and Accumulation
- Test: Part Four
- Final Exam
- Answers to Quiz, Test, and Exam Questions
- Suggested Additional Reading and Reference
- Index

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Mc Graw Hill
Auteur(s)	Stan Gibilisco
Parution	01/07/2004
Nb. de pages	442
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	780g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780071431194
ISBN13	978-0-07-143119-4