Demonstrates a slew of time-saving tips and tricks for performing common math calculations. Contains sample problems for each trick, leading the reader through step-by-step. Features two mid-terms and a final exam to test your progress plus hundreds of exercise problems ranging from simple to more sophisticated. Also includes sections on ``Mathematical Curiosities'' and ``Parlor Tricks'' for math lovers.
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Demonstrates a slew of time-saving tips and tricks for performing common math calculations. Contains sample problems for each trick, leading the reader through step-by-step. Features two mid-terms and a final exam to test your progress plus hundreds of exercise problems ranging from simple to more sophisticated. Also includes sections on ``Mathematical Curiosities'' and ``Parlor Tricks'' for math lovers.
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33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
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Title Somewhat Deceptive,
This review is from: Rapid Math Tricks & Tips: 30 Days to Number Power (Paperback)
I am a long retired teacher and supervisor of mathematics. In addition to having taught math for many years, I have also written and published materials covering the same subject. I am now using this book with an eight year-old math whiz and find it valuable to introduce him to rapid calculation and then an analysis of why it works (largely based on our place-value system of numbers. The various methods are interesting but most of them are not very practical for everyday calculation since most are special cases rather than general applications. For successful use they also require instant recall of the basic number facts and there is no hint as to how this can be accomplished. Barring that prior requirement not many math phobes will become highly skilled arithmeticians in 30 days using this or any other book.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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new ways to think about math,
By Len (Connecticut USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rapid Math Tricks & Tips: 30 Days to Number Power (Paperback)
I read this book about once a year. It turns arithmatic inside-out, showing quick tricks to do calculations in your head, or ways to transpose number problems to view them in new ways that make them easier to solve. For example, using the power of reciprocals, multiplying by 5 is equivalent to dividing by 2 and moving the decimal point to the right spot through a test of reasonableness. I apply many of the tips in this book regulaly in my job during the day, and the more times I review the book the more they've become intuitive. I highly recommend for anyone interested in math or numbers, or deals regularly with simple math problems.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Got me through GRE,
By Inetdev "Lisa B" (Tampa, FL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Rapid Math Tricks & Tips: 30 Days to Number Power (Paperback)
The information gained in this book helped me through the GRE! I recommended this to all of my friends.
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Before you begin the program with today's techniques, make sure you understand the basic math concepts reviewed previously. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intermediary estimate, necessary zeroes, fourth digit sums, brain builders, intermediary sum, intermediary difference, intermediary product, conversion trick, approximate reciprocals, elementary exercises, casting out nines, quick estimate, estimate division, true answer, intermediary figure, multiply the tens Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thought Process Summary, Brain Builder, Elementary Example, Number-Power Note, Rapidly Add, Elementary Exercises Remember, Mathematical Curiosity, Number Potpourri, Rapidly Estimate Division, Rapidly Subtract, Demonstration Problem, Quick Quiz Let, Rapidly Estimate Multiplication New!
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Before you begin the program with today's techniques, make sure you understand the basic math concepts reviewed previously. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intermediary estimate, necessary zeroes, fourth digit sums, brain builders, intermediary sum, intermediary difference, intermediary product, conversion trick, approximate reciprocals, elementary exercises, casting out nines, quick estimate, estimate division, true answer, intermediary figure, multiply the tens Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Thought Process Summary, Brain Builder, Elementary Example, Number-Power Note, Rapidly Add, Elementary Exercises Remember, Mathematical Curiosity, Number Potpourri, Rapidly Estimate Division, Rapidly Subtract, Demonstration Problem, Quick Quiz Let, Rapidly Estimate Multiplication New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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