More Rapid Math: Tricks and Tips: 30 Days to Number Mastery [Paperback]

Edward H. Julius (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471122386 | ISBN-13: 978-0471122388 | Publication Date: February 1996 | Edition: 1

Math skills you can count on!

In this eagerly awaited sequel to the popular Rapid Math Tricks and Tips, Professor Ed Julius shows you how to master difficult problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division quickly, easily?and without a calculator. And have fun while doing it!

By learning one to two tricks a day for thirty days, you'll be amazed at the increase in your number power. Discover how you can quickly subtract by oversubtracting. Speed up your calculating with place-value multiplication. See how to add in seconds by breaking a number apart. More Rapid Math Tricks and Tips includes:
* Step-by-step examples to explain each technique
* Over 1,400 sample problems and practice exercises
* Challenging "brain builders" to keep you on your toes
* Weekly quizzes and a final exam so you can check your progress
* Fascinating mathematical curiosities and parlor tricks, such as the Amazing


Age-Divining Trick and the Phenomenal Fifth-Root Trick

Whether calculating the total at the supermarket checkout, reconciling a bank statement, or figuring the sales tax on your latest purchase, More Rapid Math Tricks and Tips makes working with numbers fast, fun, and easy. It's a must for math lovers, as well as students, teachers, and anyone who works with numbers on a regular basis.

"Ed Julius has written another engaging book that will definitely excite the mind." --Mick Horwitz, Founding Director Sierra Canyon College Preparatory School,

"The original Rapid Math Tricks and Tips has been a staple in my classroom for the past four years. The sequel is definitely another winner!" --Laurie Curtis-Abbe, Teacher Anacapa Middle School, a California/National School of Excellence a U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Exemplary School

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This educational, entertaining and empowering book teaches you how to work addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems faster than you thought possible--without the use of a calculator! Uses the same successful format from the author's bestselling Rapid Math Tricks and Tips--one to two tricks a day for 30 days and a Quick Quiz at the end of each week. Contains 50 fun new math tricks plus over 20 fresh parlor tricks, tips, math anecdotes and challenges.

From the Back Cover

Math skills you can count on!

In this eagerly awaited sequel to the popular Rapid Math Tricks and Tips, Professor Ed Julius shows you how to master difficult problems in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division quickly, easily?and without a calculator. And have fun while doing it!

By learning one to two tricks a day for thirty days, you'll be amazed at the increase in your number power. Discover how you can quickly subtract by oversubtracting. Speed up your calculating with place-value multiplication. See how to add in seconds by breaking a number apart. More Rapid Math Tricks and Tips includes:

• Step-by-step examples to explain each technique
• Over 1,400 sample problems and practice exercises
• Challenging "brain builders" to keep you on your toes
• Weekly quizzes and a final exam so you can check your progress
• Fascinating mathematical curiosities and parlor tricks, such as the Amazing

Age-Divining Trick and the Phenomenal Fifth-Root Trick

Whether calculating the total at the supermarket checkout, reconciling a bank statement, or figuring the sales tax on your latest purchase, More Rapid Math Tricks and Tips makes working with numbers fast, fun, and easy. It's a must for math lovers, as well as students, teachers, and anyone who works with numbers on a regular basis.

"Ed Julius has written another engaging book that will definitely excite the mind." —Mick Horwitz, Founding Director Sierra Canyon College Preparatory School,

"The original Rapid Math Tricks and Tips has been a staple in my classroom for the past four years. The sequel is definitely another winner!" —Laurie Curtis-Abbe, Teacher Anacapa Middle School, a California/National School of Excellence a U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon Exemplary School

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Product Details

• Paperback: 226 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471122386
• ISBN-13: 978-0471122388
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,542 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Tricks? yes, but some excellent rapid calculation methods, October 21, 2001

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Charles M. Proctor, Jr. - See all my reviews

This review is from: More Rapid Math: Tricks and Tips: 30 Days to Number Mastery (Paperback)

While I haven't actually used this book I have used its predecessor and find that the two are very similar in format. I have gone through all 26 of the sample pages and found each "trick" or method is very well designed. Each consists of a concise but clear explanation, two or three fully explained examples followed by two sets of exercises. the first are easy applications; the second harder. All of the methods are valid rapid calculation devices. Unfortunately, most of the multiplication and division methods involve special cases which the average person may not ever see or recognize in typical daily encounters with the need for computation. The addition and subtraction methods are more general. The book will prove most valuable to someone who is already fairly accomplished in computation skills but wishes to brush up on them and, perhaps, to pick up a few rapid calculation methods which can be used very frequently. Otherwise, the book may help one brush up on rusty comp. skills or prove interesting in attempting to discover why the various "tricks" work (the author does not explain the mathematical basis on which the methods rest - he deals in "how-to" not "why?". One final caution - if you have not memorized the basic arithmetic combinations of addition, subtraction, mulltiplication, and division this book is not for you.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good, January 2, 2003

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M. Williams "***" (The Garden of Wales) - See all my reviews

This review is from: More Rapid Math: Tricks and Tips: 30 Days to Number Mastery (Paperback)

Great book.Really does get you thinking differently about mathematics.The stuff they teach you in school is just to complicated and drawn out.This is not.A must for those who want to 'cut to the chase'.

5.0 out of 5 stars More Rapid Math: Tricks and Tips: 30 Days to Number Mastery, July 25, 2011

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A. J. Russell "still trying" (houston, texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More Rapid Math: Tricks and Tips: 30 Days to Number Mastery (Paperback)

This is a great book, I keep buying it for those I care about. It shows math tricks that are so interesting to learn. It fires the mind of every one that reads it. The real TRICK is getting someone to actually read it, reason I buy and give as gift. Some people need years before the TRICK of reading hits them and next meeting is with my new friend that is math person for the rest of thier life.