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Everyday Math for Dummies

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If many of the mathematical skills you learned in school are just sitting there at the edge of your brain, this book is probably for you. However, if you're trying to retrieve something you haven't done in years and are looking to be shown the hard math skills, you won't find it here.

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.

I was looking for a supplemental text to teach my 7th graders about practical math. This is it! I use this book to develop applied projects for students. This book helps answer the question: "When will I ise this stuff?"

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.

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

Good explanations for a math dummy who used to get poor grades in school many years ago. I don't want to die dumb...

This book was not what I wanted, but is useful all the same. I was looking for the new method of teaching math to children, it also is called EVERYDAY MATH - OR maybe it is called EVERYDAY MATHMATICS. regardless, it is useful and can be handed down to my daughter when she uses it from everything to balancing the check book to re-calculating recipies, etc.

The really strong feature of this book is the attention to consumer finance issues, like credit card management and car leasing. You probably don't care about trigonometry once you're out of high school, but you WILL want to save money buying a car. Also, don't miss the chapter on gambling!

Certainly has a lot of good stuff to it, but the 1995 print date makes it feel a little behind the times (when he's using examples - obviously math itself has not changed). Could have been a bit clearer on certain subjects considering that a person buying the "Dummies" books probably wants it put as simply as possible. He kinda assumes you know certain things, which a book of this nature shouldn't do. Still pretty easy to pick up on though, even if you have to read a chapter twice to do so. Only other real complaint is that a lot of the subject matter is not, in fact, everyday common math. Recommended if you can get it for under $10.

This addition has some good information but not very many worked problems. The section on morgages doesn't show how to do the math but how someone else figured the math. It would be nice to show how it was figured. I tried to find out on the internet but got no real answer. Is this a secret or maybe no one but the banks know how its done.

Just Wondering.