All the Math You'll Ever Need: A Self-Teaching Guide (Wiley Self-Teaching Guides) [Paperback]

Steve Slavin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 12, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0471317519 | ISBN-13: 978-0471317517 | Edition: Revised Edition

A sharp mind, like a healthy body, is subject to the same rule of nature: Use it or lose it

Need a calculator just to work out a 15 percent service charge? Not exactly sure how to get the calculator to give you the figure you need? Turn to this revised and updated edition of All the Math You'll Ever Need, the friendliest, funniest, and easiest workout program around.

In no time, you'll have total command of all the powerful mathematical tools needed to make numbers work for you. In a dollars-and-cents, bottom-line world, where numbers influence everything, none of us can afford to let our math skills atrophy. This step-by-step personal math trainer:

• Refreshes practical math skills for your personal and professional needs, with examples based on everyday situations.
• Offers straightforward techniques for working with decimals and fractions.
• Demonstrates simple ways to figure discounts, calculate mortgage interest rates, and work out time, rate, and distance problems.
• Contains no complex formulas and no unnecessary technical terms.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

A sharp mind, like a healthy body, is subject to the same rule of nature: Use it or lose it.

Need a calculator just to work out a 15 percent service charge? Not exactly sure how to get the calculator to give you the figure you need? Turn to this revised and updated edition of All the Math You'll Ever Need, the friendliest, funniest, and easiest workout program around.

In no time, you'll have total command of all the powerful mathematical tools needed to make numbers work for you. In a dollars-and-cents, bottom-line world, where numbers influence everything, none of us can afford to let our math skills atrophy. This step-by-step personal math trainer:

• Refreshes practical math skills for your personal and professional needs, with examples based on everyday situations.
• Offers straightforward techniques for working with decimals and fractions.
• Demonstrates simple ways to figure discounts, calculate mortgage interest rates, and work out time, rate, and distance problems.
• Contains no complex formulas and no unnecessary technical terms.

About the Author

STEVE SLAVIN, Ph.D., is a professor of economics at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey. He is the author of several textbooks and self-teaching guides, including Quick Business Math, Math for Your First and Second Grader, and Economics (all from Wiley).

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; Revised Edition edition (April 12, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471317519
• ISBN-13: 978-0471317517
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 0.5 x 9.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #23,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Steve Slavin, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Economics at Union County College, Cranford, New Jersey. He has written over 300 newspaper and magazine articles, and is the author of four other books, including All the Math You'll Ever Need: A Self-Teaching Guide and Economics: A Self-Teaching Guide, both published by Wiley.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

113 of 113 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Brush up on math - successfully May 16, 2003

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

I bought this book because my job search requires me to take civil service exams again and again for various jobs. The exams are full of mathematics (even if the job has nothing to do with that subject). I needed a math refresher course in the worst way when I realized that I'd forgotten my long division and multiplication, the more difficult stretches of the multiplication table, percentages, and anything to do with fractions. This book teaches you these things (and much more) in a very nice, courteous, non-intimidating, non-condescending manner. I really appreciate it. I don't want to become a mathematician. I just want to recall enough to get by. Thank goodness this book helps you do that. I definitely recommend it. I bought it together with a similar refresher math book and found out that this one is the only one you really need.

111 of 116 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Anyone can learn math with this step-by-step book! November 20, 1999

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

I needed to pass a math portion of a job placement test, and had not been to school in 20 years! I took this book and in one week learned all the math needed to pass the test. Very easy to understand, and you can go at your own pace. Funny too!

52 of 53 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST Math Book You'll Ever Need August 8, 2005

By Brandi Godfrey

Format:Paperback

This book can be used by anyone. If we had been taught to do math like this in school we would have all done a little bit better!!! This book broke everything down so anyone could understand the simple approach to mathamatics. It taught me things that I had forgotten and also helped me with things that I was never taught in school. I have never read a book like this.

I was sold when I read other review's. When I read the book I was still amazed at the simple detail that Steve Slavin provided throughout the entire book. We thank you for our NEW knowledge on math!!!!

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars great math review May 8, 2004

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

This book is for anyone who needs to brush up on their math skills and for anyone with dyscalculia or math disabilities. This book is a great review of "life math"--including how to calculate how much social security the government deducts from your paycheck and how to calculate tips and sales percentages. Full chapters are devoted to personal finances, rate & time problems (like figuring gas mileage), and interest rates. Not too scary for math phobics and definitely useful.

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars This is all the math I'll ever need for a while! January 12, 2003

A Kid's Review

Format:Paperback

This a beautiful resource book with easy to understand lessons, funny stories, and no unneccesary math terms! This book has taught me long division, long multiplication, interest rates, and tutored me a bit in finding the area of circles! I keep this book handy during class to read in my spare time so I can excell in my mathematics skills. This book is great for going ahead, turoring, and for adults who need to brush up on math!

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Most math you'll ever need. June 8, 2002

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

This book resumes all the math you'll ever need if you work as a janitor or a clerck, that said, it does a good job at explaining the basic mathematics of elementary and secondary school. The weakness of this book: it barely touches geometry, in it you'll only find how to measure the perimeter and area of rectangles, triangles and circles, nothing on volume or angles.

It's a well written book, and overall a good one, and with more pages on geometry, it would have been an excellent one. Four stars.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Explanations are not good enough... August 13, 2009

By Newmie the cat

Format:Paperback

...and there are certainly not enough excercises in the book to make sure all that knowledge will stick. I was very dissappointed by this book. I expected it to be much better; I've been out of high school for 15 years and was never any good at math to begin with but now I need to go to college so I had to start from rock bottom and work my way up. Initially I hardly used this book, because most of the time I did, I just got fustrated with it. The beginning (addition, subtraction, ect) is all right, that is why I gave 2 stars instead of 1 but that's about it. I think this book will suit people who had a previous strong foundation of math but they just haven't used it for a long time, then this book can serve as a refresher.

I didn't want to waste my money so I still made the book somewhat helpful. I bought another by Danica McKellar; Math doesn't suck and while it was written specifically for girls in elementary school, it can be very useful for grown ups too. I find her explanations much better. So I used her book to understand what was going on and completed the limited amount of excercises in All the math you'll ever need.
There might be other good basic math books out there besides Danica McKellar's and something directed toward grown ups too but I needed something good and fast NOW.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars All The Math You Will Ever Need. January 11, 2007

By Christopher M. Scaife

Format:Paperback

I am not even halfway through this book and have learned a lot. Math is and has always been my worst subject. I know more now than I have ever known about math. I'm sure by the time I am done with this book I will still be a satisfied customer.