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Understanding Mathematics: From Counting to Calculus

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The author had conferred with teachers and students for feedback while writing the book. The end product is a concise and easy to follow step-by-step progress from arithmetic, fractions, percentages, negative numbers, exponents, algebra, solving equations, functions, graphing, geometry, trigonometry, logarithms, complex numbers, calculus, derivative and the integral. All these done within about 332 pages. Quite an achievement. It is done in a fashion that even mums and dads will enjoy teaching their children. Excellent for home schooling. No more need to search for expensive tutors. Even science books should be fashioned this way. Listen, you science teachers out there!

The students will grasp the fundamentals of the subject with many illustrations and simple language so lacking in books nowadays. The author clearly looks from the view of the poor students out there who suffer while going on to the next topic in the class without understanding the previous topics. I have recommended this book to a number of my friends with high praise from all. An excellent job, Mr Kressin!

I love this book and I agree with the other reviewer. I wish I had a Science book written like this. I am a homeschooling Mom & this is all we use for Math right now. It's everything we need in one book. Excellent!

I bought this book based on the reviews on this site and other educational sites. I had hoped it would help my teen in understanding math better, especially since Algebra is not a subject matter than I am well versed in.

I should mention that this is good source for geometry and basic math help. The division and multiplication problems are well explained and broken down into step-by-step problems.

My daughter and I did not find the book all that helpful in getting a better understanding of some of her algebra equation issues. I just I think a better breakdown of the algebra problems and more information on how to solve the equations would have been more helpful to us.

However, my neighbor who is a math whiz...just loved this book. So it is truly a matter of perspective.