Everyday Math for Everyday Life: A Handbook for When It Just Doesn't Add Up [Paperback]

Mark Ryan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2002

Everyday math skills can be painlessly learned and easily mastered, transforming readers from a person who doesn't know the meaning of APR into someone who understands credit card rates. Ryan's guide is broken into sections which review basic arithmetic from fractions to percents.

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About the Author

A graduate of Brown University and the University of Wisconsin Law School, Mark Ryan has been teaching math for over 12 years. He runs the Math Center in Winnetka, Illinois, where he teaches high school math courses and a workshop for parents based on his book, The 10 Habits of Highly Successful Math Students. In high school, he twice scored a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT, and he not only knows mathematics, he has a gift for explaining it in plain English. You'll enjoy his down-to-earth style, his humor, and his many useful math tips and shortcuts that will enable you to DO THE MATH. A tournament backgammon player and an avid skier and tennis player, he lives in Chicago.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (December 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446677264
• ISBN-13: 978-0446677264
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #319,811 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

A graduate of Brown University and the University of Wisconsin Law
School, Mark Ryan has been teaching math for over 12 years. He runs
the Math Center in Winnetka, Illinois, where he teaches high school
math courses and a workshop for parents based on his book, The 10
Habits of Highly Successful Math Students. In high school, he twice
scored a perfect 800 on the math portion of the SAT, and he not only
knows mathematics, he has a gift for explaining it in plain
English. You'll enjoy his down-to-earth style, his humor, and his many
useful math tips and shortcuts that will enable you to DO THE MATH. A
tournament backgammon player and an avid skier and tennis player, he
lives in Chicago.

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rusty Math Book, May 10, 2004

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Everyday Math for Everyday Life could serve as a perfect stand-in for a math tutor! Mark Ryan's mathematic expertise coupled with a desire to help others is evident as he offers refreshing instruction to those of us with rusty math skill. Subtle humor splashed the pages while I learned to tackle seemingly complex situations involving math in my daily life. Never again will I fear helping children with math homework, nor will I avoid conversations involving finance or insurance. I might have overlooked it had I not been led to it during a math course, and for that I'm grateful, because it will hold center stage in my library from now on and should be the math book of choice for any average person as an invaluable resource of basic formulas and fundamental math concepts. Compared to other math books I've look through, this one is the easiest to read and follow. My conclusion is that everyone should have had a math instructor like Mr. Ryan. Owning his book is the next best thing.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must for anyone whose math skills have begun to rust, December 13, 2002

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This review is from: Everyday Math for Everyday Life: A Handbook for When It Just Doesn't Add Up (Paperback)

This book is great. I was shopping around for a basic math book for my wife, who recently got a management position, and stumbled across Everyday Math for Everyday Life. Most of the other book choices were just pages and pages of numbers, but Mr. Ryan does a wonderful job of putting the numbers into readable and understandable words. It is also well organized and clearly indexed. Now, the book is not only on my wife's desk, but I bought another copy for our reference shelf at home. I found the practical examples and explanations so well put that I expect to use Everyday Math as a resource to help my two school age children with their homework.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I wish, February 17, 2010

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This review is from: Everyday Math for Everyday Life: A Handbook for When It Just Doesn't Add Up (Paperback)

I wish I had this book when I was in 5th and 7th grade. I'm not good at math. In fact I have listed on my lifetime things to do list, be good at math. Mark Ryan's book Everyday Math for Everyday Life... is helping me in a big way to reach that goal. I like the approach that the author takes. He's not just telling you how to work a math problem, he's also explains why the process works and in some cases he addresses common mistakes made when trying to solve problems. I'd recommend this book for anyone who wants to use mathemathics to enhance their everyday life.