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

~ Steve Slavin (Author) "Tens of millions of Americans are mathematically illiterate..." (more)
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Product Description

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.

From the Publisher

An easy-to-read guide to sharpening math skills for those who have taken mathematics and elementary algebra in high school or college and find they need to brush up on these skills for use in their professional or personal life. Examples and problems are related to real-life situations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; Rev Sub edition (April 12, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471317519
• ISBN-13: 978-0471317517
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #35,405 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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51 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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.

93 of 98 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

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!

28 of 29 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 (S.C.) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!!!!